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Michael I.
02-03-2007, 03:27
A friend of mine found a leica item selling for 60$ and took a pic for me.
I have no idea what is it - do you know?
Magus
02-03-2007, 03:50
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Michael I.
02-03-2007, 04:15
nope.maybe some kind of dental\medical\dedicated ring flash thingie?

The pouch shows it isn't new(leathery looking).
Limpovitj
02-03-2007, 04:49
This is a guess, mind you, but I think it's a close-up lens (the center portion) with corresponding magnifier (the outer) for the viewfinder. Made like this for a lens with rotating front.

What do I win if I'm right?
Limpovitj
02-03-2007, 05:00
Pretty much the same thing as this canon auto-up (http://www.pacificrimcamera.com/images/80509.jpg) then, only this is made for a lens with non-rotating front.
ZorkiKat
02-03-2007, 05:48
Does the glass outside the central disc look different from the central portion? I think it's an accessory for the wide-apeture 'portrait' teles whose softness depended on the aperture setting. When such lenses are stopped down, the softness decreases. An accessory like this is meant to retain the softness, at least reintroduce it, when the lens is stopped down. With the lens closed by as little as two stops from maximum, the aberrations which originate from the lens edges are lost and only the sharp central portion of the lens is used. The middle portion of the attachment will then restore the softening by introducing some aberrations of its own. Just a speculation.

Jay
VictorM.
02-03-2007, 05:59
Check it out: Item #140076094141
borismach
02-03-2007, 15:45
It looks like a pot cover to me!
:-) bm
FPjohn
02-03-2007, 15:59
Hello:

Close up attachment for RF cameras, Proximeter I or II, made by Schneider. The RF correcting annular disc does not reach the Leica RF windows but they do fit a Retina and similar.

yours
Frank
Topdog1
02-03-2007, 16:59
Pasties for a Leica stripper. Deffinitely. :D

/Ira
FPjohn
02-03-2007, 17:14
Hey, keep it clean.
Magus
02-04-2007, 02:54
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Abbazz
02-04-2007, 04:18
Speaking of humour, this is my favorite Leica accessory:D :

40494

From Jason Schneider's On Camera Collecting, Wallace-Homestead Book Co., 1978

Cheers,

Abbazz
Ash
02-04-2007, 04:58
Abbazz, that took me a moment to click... lol :D