Anyone for a bit of Nooky?

[like-a-leica]

Bought a (and NOT "some") Nooky last week. Here are the first results.

Andrew

Leica III + Nooky + Elmar 3,5/5cm

tulpennooky1web.jpg


tulpennooky2web.jpg

[Michael Hiles]

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.

[echorec]

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?

[luigi bertolotti]

Originally Posted by echorec

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 ...

[bill]

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

[like-a-leica]

It may come from the original meaning of "nook": to hide or conceal

Andrew

[luigi bertolotti]

Originally Posted by bill

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...

[Philippe D.]

In case someone is asking himself, what is a NOOKY ?
Here is his brother, the SOOKY, mounted on Leica IIIf and Summar.


LeicaIIIf-Summar-SOOKYs.jpg


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.

[jc_braconi]

Originally Posted by luigi bertolotti

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

[luigi bertolotti]

Originally Posted by jc_braconi

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...

[twom4]

Too bad Leica changed the coding to "meaningless" numbers... Took away the fun.

[asota]

Originally Posted by jc_braconi

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 .

[luigi bertolotti]

Just to continue this funny scrutiny... I wonder why old cases and bags started with "ET" (ETINI, ETTOX, ETNEU...30-40 like these...)

[maxspbr]

Originally Posted by asota

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

[jc_braconi]

Originally Posted by luigi bertolotti

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.