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Originally Posted by farnz
Thanks for your replies, Luigi and Jaap, I didn't think I'd seen one like this before!
In regard to the remarks about it being intended for an M5, it has a LTM on its 'body side'. Why would some one go the extent of replacing the original Viso III M mount with a LTM that would require an adapter to use it with an M5?
It seems to me that this is intended for use with a LTM camera not an M - would you agree?
Pete.
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Pete, I mentioned the M5 not for I thought of a use of THIS device with it... simply, I was intrigued by the "black box" on which the prism is mounted, in elevated position: it's an unusual component, but for its finishing seems to me it's a Leitz factory device (differently from the flanges), so I started to think of WHY Leitz would have produced such an accessory... and one of the vague possibility could be that to mount a VisoIII with prism onto a M5, you need to "elevate" the standard prism positioning (owing to the taller M5 body)... this "box" can work for such a goal... but it's exaggerately tall for this purpose only.