Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/01/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Got mine for the 100mm Apo Macro Elmarit as well. Will do the changing and testing over the weekend. Cheers Jayanand On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 7:25 PM, H&ECummer <cummer@netvigator.com> wrote: > Hi Luggers, > Following David Rodger's good example, > my Leitax bayonets came in today - just in time for the long Chinese New > Year holiday - and in just over an hour I changed all three of the R lenses > that I have here in Hong Kong. Lost no screws - lost no ball bearings and > didn't swear once. A very successful session. ;-) > There were no instructions for the 19mm Elmarit - so I followed what was > posted on the Leitax website for the 21mm Super Angulon. It all went > smoothly but it took me a couple of tries to get the new bayonet to seat > properly - making sure that the ball bearing that controls the aperture > click stops was in the right spot. Tomorrow I will venture out to try the > 19mm in the real world. > The 90mm Summicron was as easy as indicated on the website. I tried to > remove the third cam step cam but couldn't and then discovered I didn't > need > to take it off. This is not emphasized on the website but is implied by the > picture of the parts that are taken out of the lens. Putting on the new > bayonet was very easy - place ball bearing and screw down the six screws in > a cross tightening pattern. I could get good at this!! > My 180mm Telyt APO is slightly different from the one on the website. It is > the model at the end of the production run which takes a 60mm filters and > it > has a shroud which is not in the lens used to illustrate the installation > of > the bayonet on the website. You have to remove the shroud before you remove > the bayonet. Other than that variation it is easy to make the change. > Tomorrow we'll see how the lenses perform on the Nikon. Pictures will be > posted, of course!! > Here are the lenses on my D700. > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/R+lenses+on+Nikon+D700/ > > http://tinyurl.com/cq98dk > > Cheers > Howard > Kong Hei Fat Choi to all my Cantonese friends > Gong Xi Fa Cai to the Mandarin speakers > Hopefully the year of the Ox will be as placid as a cow. > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >