LTM Visoflex III??

[gyoung]

Originally Posted by Philippe D.

Hi Gerry,Not the M6, but the M6 TTL, as well as the M7 and M8 are taller.

Thanks, so if I get another it will have to be the 3 for the M6ttl I have now.

Gerry

[oerlema]

Originally Posted by jaapv

I have a strong suspicion this was modified to serve in an astronomical telescope. It would be interesting to know if the front ring unscrews to reveal the original LTM thread. The modfying and special orders Leitz did in the fifties were not all that polished. My father had a slideprojector modified by Leitz to project onto an enlarger board for reading and printing microfilm . It involved tubes, a mirror, a negative mask etc. It is long ago, but what I remember of the engineering was about the same level as this thing. So it might well have been done by Leitz. The black box modification certainly suggests that it is a one-off construction by Leitz. I'm fairly confident that this was not a standard accessory, not even small series.

It is indeed Leica factory made. It was made in small numbers for the medical market. I myself have the same item. And recently it was also again sold on Ebay (item number 120241220490).

[luigi bertolotti]

Whoever you are... compliments for having completed this complex investigation... months after it started ! To complete: can you b so kind to post some pics of You item ?

[jc_braconi]

Luigi,
The complete setting I post the pict is my own, it is for coupling to and endoscope, the front lever (at 6 oclock)is for engaging disengaging the four balls (you can see them, in the front ring) which clamp over the eyepiece of an endoscope, one of this endo borescope I use to control the inside of rifle barrels.

[luigi bertolotti]

Originally Posted by jc_braconi

Luigi,
The complete setting I post the pict is my own, it is for coupling to and endoscope, the front lever (at 6 oclock)is for engaging disengaging the four balls (you can see them, in the front ring) which clamp over the eyepiece of an endoscope, one of this endo borescope I use to control the inside of rifle barrels.

Thanks, JC... do you think the device described by oerlema is the same ?

[jc_braconi]

Ciao Luigi,
There is a lot of special made Visoflex in the scientist world;
here is an another one which is equipped with a large ring in the back and this ring has a groove for clamping on an unknow body.
you can see the little red dome, reminiscence from the locking lever for M mount