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I have collected Leitz panorama attachments for many years. See next photo.  It has taken until recently to obtain one each of the interchangeable rings.

 

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The next photo shows a "set" including bracket, rotating head, rings, level and ball head.  The brochure is July 1935 and shows only 6 different rings on the cover, but all 8 are listed with codes and prices inside.  As the 28 Hektor and the 200 Telyt  lenses were not available until 1935, I guess the cover photo was not yet updated.

 

 

Finally, a photo shows the 8 rings.  I think the 28, 73, and 200 are the hardest to find. The 200 required 36 photos to complete a full 360 panorama, quite an undertaking.

The full set consists of 28, 35 50,73,90, 105, 135 and 200.

 

 

Comments/Correction welcome.  Maybe my life is slightly more complete!

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Are all media different?
What is the most significant difference between them?

 

As can be seen, the numbers on the rings are differently spaced, depending on the focal they were made for : rotating from one number to the next one makes the two adiacent frames exactly matching (at infinity, I think) border-to-border (horizontal taking - the intermediate indents are for vertical taking)

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I love this forum!  I've wanted to create a panorama gadget like this for many cameras since I was in college, and now I learn all these decades later that Leica actually sold such a product.  I've got to look for these for my own photography, for my own M3.  Thanks for cluing me in to this whole class of accessory. :D

 

Scott

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