Marco Milazzo
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It appears to be a helical focusing mount -- but for what?. It has 39mm threads on the camera end, and a 3-tab mount inside. It's marked "Elmar 5 CM" on the front. Any ideas?
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Can you ID this Leica Helical mount?
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Blind_spark
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That would be a NOOKY - a close-up accessory for use with the collapsible Elmar. Paraphrasing from information gleaned from the below, one bayonets the lens into the device, attaches it all to the camera, and then you can focus a LTM lens/body down to 50cm with parallax compensation. Pretty neat!
http://www.l-camera-forum.com/leica-wiki.en/index.php/NOOKY
http://www.l-camera-forum.com/leica-wiki.en/index.php/NOOKY
Scrambler
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The lens is mounted collapsed which is why the prongs are the mount. There are two other versions of the same device, the NOOKY-HESUM for Hector and Summitar lenses and the SOOKY for the collapsible Summicron.
Muggins
Junk magnet
A good find. Here in the UK you'll find people get very nostalgic when you talk about NOOKY. 🙂
Adrian
Adrian
Dralowid
Michael
...depends how old you are...
NOOKY for Elmar
NOOKY HESUM for Hektor and Summar
SOOKY for Summitar and collapsible Summicron
David Hughes
David Hughes
Yeah, talk for yourself...
David Hughes
David Hughes
Ooops, nearly forgot;
Regards, David
Regards, David
Muggins
Junk magnet
😛
Call me tragic, but if I had a screwmount Leica, I'd have to get a NOOKY just because...
*wanders off, cackling like Sid James*
Actually seeing it mounted, it looks like a well-thought out piece of kit (certainly by the standards of some of the bodge-jobs inflicted on photographers of the time), but I guess I should expect that from Leica.
Adrian
David Hughes
David Hughes
Hi,
That's like buying Niccas in pairs...
Regards, David
That's like buying Niccas in pairs...
Regards, David
Luddite Frank
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Dez
Bodger Extraordinaire
Scrambler
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Yes. Summitar, summar, hektor.
My understanding is that it's the mounting flange that varies, but perhaps that's just the NOOKY/ NOOKY HESUM difference. What the difference is with the SOOKY is I don't know. Apart from the fact that no one ever bought one for the name.
My new favorite Leica code is the SGOOD.
Muggins
Junk magnet
Funnily enough, my Micro-Nikkors always make me think of thongs (skimpy underwear, should any Australians be reading).
SGOOD isn't bad...
Adrian
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