like-a-leica Posted April 4, 2008 Share #1 Posted April 4, 2008 Advertisement (gone after registration) Bought a (and NOT "some") Nooky last week. Here are the first results. Andrew Leica III + Nooky + Elmar 3,5/5cm Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Quote Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/49792-anyone-for-a-bit-of-nooky/?do=findComment&comment=529105'>More sharing options...
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Michael Hiles Posted April 4, 2008 Share #2 Posted April 4, 2008 Andrew, very nice picture, helps confirm that flowers, foliage etc can be wonderful in B&W. Also underscores the robust design of the Leica's system. That old lens and its various accessories are still wonderfully usable. And some of the close-up accessories (belun, boowu etc) are not improved upon for their simplicity and effectiveness. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
echorec Posted April 4, 2008 Share #3 Posted April 4, 2008 Looks great. I have both a Nooky and a Nooky Hesum but I have never tried them. I will now. Question from a non-American/non-Englishman: What is the other meaning of nooky? Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
luigi bertolotti Posted April 4, 2008 Share #4 Posted April 4, 2008 Looks great. I have both a Nooky and a Nooky Hesum but I have never tried them. I will now. Question from a non-American/non-Englishman: What is the other meaning of nooky? I think NOOKY has no other meaning apart Leiciste.... but the Leitz people tried anyway to give at least A BIT of significance to their famous 5 letter codes... for instance most of the old filters had FIXXX as code (I have FIOLA FIGRO FIPOS FIRAD:...) , the viewfinders had VIXXX (VISOR VISAX VIUNA VIOOH...) ... there was a 200mm lens coded TELOO... I suppose that NOOKY has the "N" for "nach/near"... The play was easy with the first items... Leica I was LEICA, Elmar 5cm was ELMAR, Elmar 9cm (long/lang) was ELANG...when the number of accessories "exploded" this vague tentative of "semi-speaking-codes" became impossible... I don't see any relation with the word XOOIM and a lens hood ... Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bill Posted April 4, 2008 Share #5 Posted April 4, 2008 LoL! Gunnar (and Luigi) Nooky, (or nookie) is a British slang term for sex. I don't know the origins, but it goes back a very long time. It is a "naughty" word rather than a "dirty" word - one of the Carry On films had a Doctor Nooky, as I remember, working in a fertility clinic Regards, Bill Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
like-a-leica Posted April 4, 2008 Author Share #6 Posted April 4, 2008 It may come from the original meaning of "nook": to hide or conceal:eek: Andrew Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
luigi bertolotti Posted April 5, 2008 Share #7 Posted April 5, 2008 Advertisement (gone after registration) LoL! Gunnar (and Luigi) Nooky, (or nookie) is a British slang term for sex. I don't know the origins, but it goes back a very long time. It is a "naughty" word rather than a "dirty" word - one of the Carry On films had a Doctor Nooky, as I remember, working in a fertility clinic Regards, Bill LOL !!!! Italian members must know that there was also a filter named FIGAM ... and BANAN is an internationally known term... Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philippe D. Posted April 5, 2008 Share #8 Posted April 5, 2008 In case someone is asking himself, what is a NOOKY ? Here is his brother, the SOOKY, mounted on Leica IIIf and Summar. Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! of course nooky, sooky and so on doesn't mean anything. It's just a 5 letters code used at that time for shortened telegraphic correspondence. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! of course nooky, sooky and so on doesn't mean anything. It's just a 5 letters code used at that time for shortened telegraphic correspondence. ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/49792-anyone-for-a-bit-of-nooky/?do=findComment&comment=529754'>More sharing options...
jc_braconi Posted April 5, 2008 Share #9 Posted April 5, 2008 I don't see any relation with the word XOOIM and a lens hood ... all M hOOd have a double OO in the code word IWKOO ITDOO XOONS XOOIM SOOPD IROOA IUFOO OTDOO SOOFM etc 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
luigi bertolotti Posted April 5, 2008 Share #10 Posted April 5, 2008 all M hOOd have a double OO in the code word IWKOO ITDOO XOONS XOOIM SOOPD IROOA IUFOO OTDOO SOOFM etc Damn ! I never paid attention to this question of hOOds !!! Holy Agatha Christie... Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
twom4 Posted April 6, 2008 Share #11 Posted April 6, 2008 Too bad Leica changed the coding to "meaningless" numbers... Took away the fun. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
aesop Posted April 6, 2008 Share #12 Posted April 6, 2008 all M hOOd have a double OO in the code word IWKOO ITDOO XOONS XOOIM SOOPD IROOA IUFOO OTDOO SOOFM etc Ah, the old Leitz "OO" conundrum. I have a NEWOO (cat. #17665) permanently attached to the condenser lens of my Focomat 1C. It is an anti-Newton ring pressure plate which works perfectly (see attached image). Sounds like the folks at Leitz did exercise a certain degree of unbridled subversive creativity in coming up with these codes . Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Quote Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/49792-anyone-for-a-bit-of-nooky/?do=findComment&comment=530332'>More sharing options...
luigi bertolotti Posted April 6, 2008 Share #13 Posted April 6, 2008 Just to continue this funny scrutiny... I wonder why old cases and bags started with "ET" (ETINI, ETTOX, ETNEU...30-40 like these...) Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxspbr Posted April 7, 2008 Share #14 Posted April 7, 2008 Ah, the old Leitz "OO" conundrum. I have a NEWOO (cat. #17665) permanently attached to the condenser lens of my Focomat 1C. It is an anti-Newton ring pressure plate which works perfectly (see attached image). Sounds like the folks at Leitz did exercise a certain degree of unbridled subversive creativity in coming up with these codes . Thanks for this information, asota! I got one of this piece with photographic things from my grandfather... And until now I had no idea about what it could be! (He had a Focomat Ic, but it was sold long, long time ago). Martin Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jc_braconi Posted April 7, 2008 Share #15 Posted April 7, 2008 Just to continue this funny scrutiny... I wonder why old cases and bags started with "ET" (ETINI, ETTOX, ETNEU...30-40 like these...) ET is for ETUI, (same word as in French) to name a case. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stealth3kpl Posted April 4, 2012 Share #16 Posted April 4, 2012 Is there a NOOKY for the M2? Pete Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpattison Posted April 4, 2012 Share #17 Posted April 4, 2012 Probably one of these... LEICA 50mm f/2 SUMMICRON with Near-Focusing Range (1956-1968) John 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jc_braconi Posted April 4, 2012 Share #18 Posted April 4, 2012 Is there a NOOKY for the M2?Pete its name is SOOKY- M Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/49792-anyone-for-a-bit-of-nooky/?do=findComment&comment=1973574'>More sharing options...
luigi bertolotti Posted April 4, 2012 Share #19 Posted April 4, 2012 its name is SOOKY- M The above depicted items are complete with the additional ring UOORF... which in this case (see the VERY OLD previous posts of this thread... ) is NOT the code of a hood, despite the double "O" Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
giordano Posted April 5, 2012 Share #20 Posted April 5, 2012 Nooky, (or nookie) is a British slang term for sex. I don't know the origins, but it goes back a very long time. With the luxury these days of access to OED I looked it up and was surprised to learn the Big Dic considers it's "orig. U.S." and initially meant "a woman considered as a sexual object", soon afterwards also taking on the meaning "sexual intercourse". In the latter sense, the first quotations are from John Dos Passos (1930), Saul Bellow (1944) and the New Zealand literary journal Landfall (1953). The first UK quotation is only from the 1960s - the Carry On years. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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