mikej Posted October 28, 2008 Share #1 Posted October 28, 2008 Advertisement (gone after registration) Here's the second message with the remaining photos of this manual. Cheers, Mike Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted October 28, 2008 Posted October 28, 2008 Hi mikej, Take a look here Rare Find - Leica Tech. Center Training Manual of Luis Marden - 2 of 2. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
luigi bertolotti Posted October 28, 2008 Share #2 Posted October 28, 2008 Handwritten notes are of interest... they deal with the SM to BM adapters, the theory of "standard" lens with focal=film diagonal about... Infos on M3... and HERE (towards the end of page) there is a little mystery... at one point, seems one can read "now M 4 - with xxxx finder " ... M4 entered the market in 1967... nine years after this stage. What to think of ? All the materials are clearly contemporary to the class, as one can see from the lens infos that start with Summaron 28 as shortest lens (21mm f4 was announced just in 1958, indeed) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jc_braconi Posted October 28, 2008 Share #3 Posted October 28, 2008 Luigi, I think he was, may be, speaking about the 35 with goggles, "mit brille" as a 4th lens to be used with the viewfinder/rangefinder, Mess-sucher. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andybarton Posted October 28, 2008 Share #4 Posted October 28, 2008 The text seems to say "with similar finder" Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
luigi bertolotti Posted October 28, 2008 Share #5 Posted October 28, 2008 Luigi,I think he was, may be, speaking about the 35 with goggles, "mit brille" as a 4th lens to be used with the viewfinder/rangefinder, Mess-sucher. Reasonable hipotesis, JC ... M3 = Mess sucher for 3 lenses ... but 4 indeed with the goggled 35s... they arrived just in that years (56 the Summaron 3,5, 58 Summicron and Summaron 2,8) . BTW... I have a huge collection of Nat Geos... many numbers of the '50s-'60s... I'll go and search some articles with photos by Marden...to see if one can recognize the "fingerprint" Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikej Posted October 28, 2008 Author Share #6 Posted October 28, 2008 Hi, all - based on the level of interest, I'll try to scan Marden's notes tomorrow and post them in this thread. Cheers, Mike Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikej Posted October 28, 2008 Author Share #7 Posted October 28, 2008 Advertisement (gone after registration) Here's a link for Marden with a NGS bibliography. National Geographic Magazine @ nationalgeographic.com Cheers, Mike Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpattison Posted October 29, 2008 Share #8 Posted October 29, 2008 Andy, I think it says "auxiliary finder" John Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jc_braconi Posted October 29, 2008 Share #9 Posted October 29, 2008 Viewfinder of M-3 magnification .9 with a single viewer (SBOOI, SVGOO,SHOOC ? ) .7 measuring error 30% (!) 35mm auxilliary finder lenses. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikej Posted October 29, 2008 Author Share #10 Posted October 29, 2008 Hi, all - John is correct. Here is the full language from the notes: "M-3, from Mess-Sucher, changes for 3 lenses, hence now M-4 = with auxiliary finder." I believe messsucher is German for rangefinder. Cheers, Mike Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikej Posted October 29, 2008 Author Share #11 Posted October 29, 2008 Hi, all - here are Marden's notes, 12 pages, scanned. Sorry for the multiple posts to get all of this to you. The depth of training compared to an introductory class presented today is quite a contrast. Cheers, Mike Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jc_braconi Posted October 29, 2008 Share #12 Posted October 29, 2008 I believe messsucher is German for rangefinder. Cheers, Mike Not exactly, Messucher is a contraction from "Entfernungsmesser" and "Sucher" for range finder and finder, before the M3 this two "finder" were separate windows with the M3 they are combined in the same window used to measure "messer" and viewfinder "sucher" = Messucher Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
andybarton Posted October 29, 2008 Share #13 Posted October 29, 2008 Andy,I think it says "auxiliary finder" John That sounds about right Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikej Posted October 29, 2008 Author Share #14 Posted October 29, 2008 Thanks for the clarification, JC. I'm having a problem getting the server to take the last 2 pages, so I'll get them posted as soon as the site allows. Andy - is there something on the server side that prevents me from doing more than 10 attachments in a single thread, even if I do separate submittals? Cheers, Mike Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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