Televit Manual

[wlaidlaw]

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I have recently acquired the full Televit kit of 400 and 500 f5.6 heads, aperture tube, Televit with pistol grip and shoulder stock. I use these with Leica M8 or M9 + Visoflex III. What I don't have is a manual, as the original owner who bought it new and from whom I purchased it, thinks the manual fell down between the rafters in his attic. Does anyone by any chance have a manual that they could scan and let me have a copy? My usual sources of Mike Butkus and David Young have drawn a blank.

 

Thanks Wilson

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[ErichF]

I have recently acquired the full Televit kit of 400 and 500 f5.6 heads, aperture tube, Televit with pistol grip and shoulder stock. I use these with Leica M8 or M9 + Visoflex III. What I don't have is a manual, as the original owner who bought it new and from whom I purchased it, thinks the manual fell down between the rafters in his attic. Does anyone by any chance have a manual that they could scan and let me have a copy? My usual sources of Mike Butkus and David Young have drawn a blank.

 

Thanks Wilson

 

Hi Wilson,

I can help you, but only in german .

 

If you want, please send me your eMail per pn.

 

 

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[2Bébèrt]

I received mine last thursday without manual, so .....

 

First test shot 560/5.6 (rain pouring down outside)

 

[jc_braconi]

Erich,

I sent you a PM with my email

If you can mail me a copy please

By advance many thanks

[wlaidlaw]

Erich,

 

Copy manual received - many thanks. You will wish you had never admitted to having a manual ;-]]

 

The elderly gentleman from whom I bought the Televit kit has phoned me, to say he is going to ask his son on his next visit, to go up into the attic and see if he can find the English language version of the manual for me. If he does find it, I will scan it to PDF and offer it to all that want it.

 

Wilson

[ErichF]

You both got the manual as well.

 

Cheers

 

Erich

[jc_braconi]

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Thank you verymuch Erich.

[2Bébèrt]

Erich,

 

if you can find some spare time to send me a copy I would much appreciate it.

Bert

[2Bébèrt]

Thank you Erich,

I just found it in my other mailbox.

 

Gruß

[Shac]

Another source of useful info on Televits (as well as other older Leica equipment) is of course Andrew Matheson's series "The Leica and Leicaflex Way". The 8th - 10th editions certainly ahve this information.

[wlaidlaw]

Another source of useful info on Televits (as well as other older Leica equipment) is of course Andrew Matheson's series "The Leica and Leicaflex Way". The 8th - 10th editions certainly ahve this information.

 

I have managed to stumble my way through the German manual that Erich kindly sent me, which I think confirms that I have mostly been using the Televit correctly. I might get the Matheson book but only if I can find a cheap S/H one.

 

I spent a lot of yesterday afternoon getting the 49mm UV/IR filter glass out of my now superfluous John Milich WATE filter adapter. Why is it that a filter glass locking ring which is screwed in lightly finger tight, takes a major engineering effort to remove! I then took the glass out of a series VII filter only to find to my dismay that, as the actual filter ring is very thin, a 49mm filter glass drops straight through (both the series VII and e49 filters have the same external diameter). I may have to bite the bullet and buy a series VII UV/IR filter at an arm and a leg price.

 

Final question, does anyone have an idea how to adjust the friction brake on the focusing knob (the one that is released with the trigger)? Mine is providing very little friction; in other words, there is not a lot of difference between trigger depressed and not, even though you can see the knob moving away from the brake fingers. It may be that the spring has become weak and will have to be replaced.

 

Wilson

[2Bébèrt]

Another source of useful info on Televits (as well as other older Leica equipment) is of course Andrew Matheson's series "The Leica and Leicaflex Way". The 8th - 10th editions certainly ahve this information.

 

Good idee, I"ll try to find that edition.

On my bookshelf is now a version printed in 1953 of 'The Leica Way"

 

@Wilson,

 

I think the focusing knob is always able to be adjustable and the trigger is to release tension

so you can pull or push the whole set (focusing part) between short and infinity focus in a fast way. (or the preset focus points)

[wlaidlaw]

 

I think the focusing knob is always able to be adjustable and the trigger is to release tension

so you can pull or push the whole set (focusing part) between short and infinity focus in a fast way. (or the preset focus points)

 

The problem is that my focusing bit is still quite easily pushed in and out without the trigger being pulled. In other words the trigger is not making as much difference as I feel it should. If you look at the Televit side of the focusing knob, you will see the fingers just peeking out of the knob. I think these are a friction brake, so that the knob can still be turned, without the trigger being pulled but it is difficult to "trombone" the focusing section in and out. I am guessing that a spring pulls the knob onto these fingers. When you push the trigger, you can see the knob moves outwards a little, releasing it from the fingers. I suspect my spring has gone weak.

 

Wilson