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I am one of the 650 fellows. I am honest. I prefer....by leaps and bounds....the rendered images from my M8 and M9 cameras even with some of the technical constraints associated with their older technology. So... 1/650 accounted for. Any reason for why the tone of several responses to this topic has been so rude? No need for that, my fellow fellows.

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I am sorry these photos are poor resolution....I was unable to put the scanned files up due to size limitations. Or perhaps the limitation of my intelligence......I would be happy to send along a nicely scanned copy to someone who would be able to post it here for community use and reference. It is too nice a day for me to keep sitting inside figuring out how to get this posted.

I have taken some pictures of the English language version of the BEOON instruction manual for your use and possibly for others on the forum who might be looking to read it.

The "manual" that came with my Visoflex Typ 020 was a small Accessories pamphlet that outlined, in several languages, the legalese of a Leica Guarantee as well as warning language about the safe disposal of electronic equipment. No design drawings, no "parts" diagram, no specifications, nor instructions for use. It was not specific in any way to the Visoflex Typ 020. It is true that it is a plug and play design with a simple assembly "procedure" but specification documentation is always nice to have for the curious or those who might want to modify or tailor its use other than attaching it to the cameras for which it was specifically designed. You might be able to find a pdf for Accessories on the Leica webpage but I personally do not think it is worth much. You aren't missing anything important or interesting.

This is adapter ring A from a leica BEOON Copying stand set. The set came with, among other pieces, four extension rings A, B, C, and D. Ring A has 39mm male screw thread and a female Leica M bayonet mount fitting. Outside of its use as a lens fitting piece for the copying stand, the A ring can also be used as an adapter ring to fit M mount lenses to a variety of cameras. It is 9mm in depth. With a bayonet to screw mount adapter ring (1mm depth) it can be used in many cases just as a leica OUFRO/16469 macro adapter ring. The OUFRO/16469 is 10 mm in depth and approximately 54 mm in outer diameter. The A ring has a slightly larger outer diameter of approximately 58mm. In many cases, this makes the "A" ring with a screw mount to leica M adapter ring an interchangeable alternative to an OUFRO. If you do an internet search on this information, you can learn how it can be used for its designed purpose as well as how it can be used in other versatile applications. I expect other forum members can provide examples of their contemporary uses of and experience of this ring as an extension tube or adapter fitting ring or both.

Thank you for sharing your website and informing us of updates. It is a tremendous amount of work. Your attention to details and dedication to the documentation of Leica Historica is a phenomenal resource and an education…not to mention beautifully archived. A real treasure!

You are most welcome.

It sounds like your camera is set to Snapshot mode. If the camera is operating properly, pushing the "A" button on the top of the camera activates this mode (and overrides many settings you expect to be able to set while in Aperture Priority mode). Pushing A again deactivates the snapshot mode. See pages 59, 75, and 89 of the detailed instruction manual for details on which features are abled or disabled by Snapshot mode. The detailed instruction manual is not the same as the abbreviated printed version that comes with the camera. It is on the CD that comes with the camera or should be available as a pdf download on the Leica website. Neither instruction manual is brilliantly written (understatement) but most of the information one needs is there. You can print out the detailed instructions if having a "hard copy" is easier to use and access than the digital pdf version provided. There is also at least one third party book with instructions on using the D Lux 109 available for purchase. If I am sharing information you already know, I apologize. I am offering a "quick" answer here on the forum but reading or referring to the detailed manual will likely save you the most time in the long run.

Leica Photography Volume 7 Number 1 (Spring 1954) Editor John F. Brooks Managing Editor Kenneth Poli Contributing Editor Julius Huisgen Production Florence Zubowicz Circulation Ann Errico Front Cover: "Early Bird" Leica Photo by Emily Goode (Leica iiib, Hektor 135 mm lens, f/6 at 1/40 of a second on Daylight Kodachrome from a Dye Transfer Print) (page 1) Front Inside Cover: "Whatever the Weather" by Evelyn R. Zeek (Leica iiic, Summitar lens at f/4 at 1/40th, light from No. 2 photo-flood) (page 2) Rear Inside Cover: Advertising page for Leitz Dialux Phase Microscope pictured with Mikas attachment and Leica Screw Mount Camera) (page 31) Rear Cover: Advertising page for Leica 35 Summaron f/3.5 (page 32) (Note on Table of Contents page, in black box): New Equipment Issue….Earlier this month, at the Photokina in Cologne, Germany, the Leitz Factory introduced a number of major new items. At the head of the list is the sensational Leica M3 camera. Because this equipment is so newsworthy, a large part of this is issue of Leica Photography is devoted to descriptions of it. We feel that this is the best and quickest way to get the whole interesting story to you. Table of Contents Page 3 M3-Newest. Most Versatile Leica of All 4 Now You Can Use Your Camera for 3-D 8 (Stemar attachment) Long-Focus Lens Has a Speed of f/2.5 10 (Hektor 125 mm f/2.5) Leica Personalities-Dexter Dawes 11 Now That You Mention It 12 How It Works: The Leica-Meter 14 Salon Section 15 (Images by Robert Frank "Tree", "Procession", "Ticker Tape", "Boy" Shoot!--By Existing Light (By Herbert Jerome Flatow) 19 The Gadget Bag 22 Reduced Excise Taxes Good News for Leica Users 24 (New Reduced Prices Effective April 1, 1954) Tiny Leica-Meter Model 2 25 Ernst Leitz, Canada 26 The Leica in Public Health (By Nicholas A. Milone) 28 How Leica Solved the Problem 30 (by Harold Underhill, American Can Company) I can try to get a scanned copy to you although my copy has the following handwritten note on the cover: M-3-Stereo (Stemar)-Leicameter 1954. I hope the annotation notes can be helpful to you. Please private message me if you would like me to scan pages to you. I appreciate your efforts and your willingness to share them with others. Thank you.

If you send me a private message, I can send you a photocopy of the instruction manual to either an address or to a fax machine.

Thank you for sharing your beautiful collection. If you wanted to share stories about your years of collecting, what you have enjoyed, and what inspired you long ago to start this collection, or anecdotes about particular pieces or your personal favorites, I expect they would be very interesting. Thank you again for giving us a glimpse!

No, I haven't. I have seen some mention of this as a partial support. I will try them, though, and appreciate the encouraging suggestion. Thank you.

I have and continue to own Leica 8, 9, and M 240 cameras all of which I acquired when they were first launched. Each has its place and each has its strengths and weaknesses. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, for sure, but I cannot recreate the "look" I have come to prefer from the source files of the M240. I find this most pronounced in pictures of people which is my most frequent and preferred subject matter. Others might not agree and might prefer the files they are getting or might think a compromise was needed to gain other advantages they needed or wanted.. Perhaps someone has a “secret sauce” in post processing that has not yet been shared and demonstrated….which may in fact be proprietary. Okay….but it has eluded me and has eluded others and not for want of trying. While I do not “like” change as much as I wish I did, this has never stopped me from pursuing and embracing it. I think the M240 has great versatility and wonderful features as a camera but something changed not for the better for me in terms of the images I can create with it. I hoped that the letter would continue a positive, informed discussion not only among photographers/customers but also with representatives from Leica, too. I would never discourage someone's success or satisfaction with the tools, features, and, ultimately, images they prefer. In fact, I like to celebrate that. Peter, personally, deserves more credibility and respect for his findings than some of the responses that have been posted here exhibit. His work is astonishingly good and he has devoted a great deal of time and open-minded experimentation to this effort. I agree with the letter (that's why I signed it) and share an interest in further developing the CCD sensor technology…or frankly, any technology, that creates files I can turn into the kinds of images I have come to treasure from the M9 (and the M8) with their CCD sensors. For those of you for whom the CMOS sensor is giving you preferred imagery? Wonderful. Does this mean that it is giving everyone preferred imagery? No. Does it mean that one can seamlessly "convert" a CMOS file into one that emerged from a CCD sensor? No, it doesn't. At least in many images where the differences matter most. Hence the letter. Thank you to those who have responded with courtesy, knowledge, helpfulness, and experience regardless of your “point of view”. We all learn and grow from this. For those who have chosen to post rude and misguidedly speculative posts? Well, I guess we learn something from that, too (albeit not about cameras, photography, or image creation).