einolu
Well-known
FrankS
Registered User
That would be a great body to put a wide angle scale focussing lens on like the CV 25mm. It'll end up selling for $500 though.
back alley
IMAGES
that looks like it was taken out of the box for the photo shoot only.
looks brand spankin' new.
joe
looks brand spankin' new.
joe
VictorM.
Well-known
Mount it on a microscope or telescope, or mount a Visoflex and long lenses.
taffer
void
Ditto, the MDa, curiously there has been a bit of back and forth with this one recently, it's one of those times when you don't hear of them for months and then in 3 days four or five pop out of nowhere 
If you shoot superwides and want Leica quality, this may be the way.
If you shoot superwides and want Leica quality, this may be the way.
They were made for the scientific market. Wish I could come across an old one in the Lab! Closest that I found was the Scientific Version of the Kodak Pony.
Trius
Waiting on Maitani
My guess (and it's strictly a guess) is that with appropriate adapter it mounts on a microscope, telescope or something similar.
Trius
Trius
Graybeard
Longtime IIIf User
Before Polaroid camera backs became common in the late 1960's and 1970's, Leicas were often used in laboratories for recording microscope images and oscilloscope traces. The optical equipment was often German then so it was no surprise that a Leica was the camera of choice. The fact that the Leicas were available as a body alone made it simple for the camera to be mated to a microscope. I encountered Leicas in several laboratories being used for this purpose, even with Zeiss equipment.
I used a Leica IIIA in graduate school for recording oscilloscope images. We used an extension tube that had been fabricated in the campus machine shop with my Summar to allow focus up close to oscilloscope screen. At the end of each session, I removed the extension tube and photographed a blackboard with the experiment details in order to record the information on the same film strip as the oscilloscope traces.
Later we had an Olympus phase contrast microscope in the industrial laboratory where I was working. Olympus offered an (Olympus) rangefinder-less camera body
as an acessory for the equipment. I used a Polaroid back then for my work, another option which was offered. When we needed some presentation-quality enlargements we brought in our industrial photographer. He removed the Polaroid back and shot the images with the same 4x5 sheet film in Graphlex holders that he had been using for the previous 30 years. His enlargements were very good, indeed,
I used a Leica IIIA in graduate school for recording oscilloscope images. We used an extension tube that had been fabricated in the campus machine shop with my Summar to allow focus up close to oscilloscope screen. At the end of each session, I removed the extension tube and photographed a blackboard with the experiment details in order to record the information on the same film strip as the oscilloscope traces.
Later we had an Olympus phase contrast microscope in the industrial laboratory where I was working. Olympus offered an (Olympus) rangefinder-less camera body
as an acessory for the equipment. I used a Polaroid back then for my work, another option which was offered. When we needed some presentation-quality enlargements we brought in our industrial photographer. He removed the Polaroid back and shot the images with the same 4x5 sheet film in Graphlex holders that he had been using for the previous 30 years. His enlargements were very good, indeed,
Yes, Olympus is also known for lab optics, and they had a special version of the Pen F camera for use with microscopes and such. We now see these offered occasionally on eBay... but there's a serious "gotcha" involved: For lab use, instead of a focusing screen the camera displays a non-focused aerial view. And I understand it is not feasible for a camera tech to change it back to a focusing screen for normal photographic use, so the buyer is left with a scale-focusing SLR... Beware, Pen F shoppers!