[Leica] It's a film camera! Rangefinder at that!

[s.yoder at verizon.net (Stan Yoder)]

Hoppy wonders how old RF folders coupled. Well,...      

The Zeiss Ikon Super Ikontas did not have a physical coupling. Rather, one 
of the RF 'eyes' in the 
body looked through a pair of counter-rotating optical wedges on the front 
lens/shutter standard. 
Rotating these wedges (thumb-wheel) also rotated the (focusing) front cell 
of the lens, as well as 
converging the RF eyes in the body. The wedges were on an arm that had to be 
folded down before 
closing the camera.

OTOH, the Voigtlander RF Bessa 6x9 focused with a knob on the body. This 
racked the entire 
lens/shutter standard in/out, as well as converging the eyes.

Then there's the Kodak Retina 35mm RF. Focusing was by a helix moving the 
lens/shutter in/out, with 
a follower arm back to the rf optics in the body.

Whether any of these methods applies to the Fuji, I dunno, though its 
lens/shutter standard or yolk 
looks like the Bessa's.

This is pretty far OT. Sorry about that. Except.... Leitz did make an Elmar 
for (AFAIremember) the 
Kodak Vollenda folder, didn't they? So, thinly on-topic. Very.

Stan Yoder