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[Pyrogallol]

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Seen this for sale, what is it, rare or common ?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Leitz-Wetzlar-Leica-35mm-film-back-for-camera/125673307944?hash=item1d42b67f28:g:vowAAOSw~zBjohC0&amdata=enc:AQAHAAAAkFWwbMf+VYP3gG6szRFTSWUm9IS3708ouVwDb//J7IcGV0TEUo4Xti7W+i/6Y7Z+k2vKnMuCUUjTm9kONO1Iyyx7XvptePP9qQKWoBBmNfmugidqSK/2yHPvu/lUkClXAvdQaqQ08I99kk4R0zCQnaznnzTC2xIgxFx5nd4qE2I5sO0pWegYBbuwvfhwWPk9Dw==|tkp:Bk9SR-LH__erYQ&pageci=8f7bcc18-8932-4f95-bc7e-c5d438f7fafb&redirect=mobile

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[alan mcfall]

Film back for microscope camera, Leitz, and later Wild made several iterations. AFAIK, not highly collectable.

[pgk]

Adox 300 film back made by Leitz http://www.amdmacpherson.com/classiccameras/index.html

Edited December 29, 2022 by pgk

[UliWer]

Yes: https://kameramuseum.de/objekte/adox-300-kb-wechselmagazin/

Though why did Leitz produce these film backs, when Adox seems to have made them theirselves? 

[Sonnelacht]

As far as I know, even the ADOX Wechselmagazine were manufactured by Leitz.

Leitz did not dare to bring a special consumer body for this exchangeable film magazine to the market and the small number of sold ADOX 300 cameras prooved them right. The camera was too clumsy and a rangefinder would have hardly to be integrated. Only a kind of more or less external coupling would habe been possible, similar to that of the Leidolf Lordomat - not fitting to the image of Leitz and requesting another special bayonet ond another line of lenses.

Edited December 29, 2022 by Sonnelacht

[Sonnelacht]

The ADOX 300. Look at the deep Window to see the film counter at the magazine.

Second picture shows the magazine with its own stainless steel curtain for changing in the middle of the film.

Third picture shows the simple "external" meter coupling of the Lordomat by Leidolf / Wetzlar.

(Please excuse the poor Quality of the quick handheld Macro Elmarit R - photographs)

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Edited December 30, 2022 by Sonnelacht

[Anbaric]

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Here is what the Wikipedia article claims:

http://camera-wiki.org/wiki/Adox_300

'Most of the magazines for the Adox 300 are marked Adox. Some are marked Leitz and present some little difference. Some people say all the magazines were made by Leitz, including the ones marked Adox, but McKeown gives another story, that Leitz bought the tooling after Adox stopped the production and that they were used on the Leitz Orthomat microscope camera. This version makes more sense. The Leitz magazines were made in black and other colors. McKeown says olive and white, and a grey magazine has been seen at ebay.'

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[jpattison]

"Leitz Wetzlar Germany D.B.P. 1044601". D.B.P. mean German Federal Patent, and this number was awarded to ADOX. It is indeed the film back for an Orthomat camera usually used with an Ortholux and later Orthoplan microscope, which was quite handy to allow for quick changes of different films to photograph the same microscope slide (e.g. black-and-white and a color slide).
 

I wonder if the ADOX 300 was the original use for this, or did ADOX have a lot of spares and thought to design a simple camera around it, as Microscope use was limited ????

John

Edited January 9, 2023 by jpattison