Nooky works with R-D1?

[john3]

I'm tempting to get one if it works. Please share your experience.

Thanks.

 

[boilerdoc2]

I'll bite. What's 'nooky with an R-D1'?

 

[Solinar]

There's Elmar NOOKY and Summitar/Summar NOOKY.

Which NOOKY are we talking about?

 

[john3]

There's Elmar NOOKY and Summitar/Summar NOOKY.

Which NOOKY are we talking about?

Sorry, can they both be used?

 

[jlw]

I'll bite. What's 'nooky with an R-D1'?

A NOOKY is an old Leitz close-up device that they used to make for use with Leica rangefinder cameras. It lets you focus the lens in the range 1 meter to 44 cm.

Back in those days, Leica accessories were designated by five-letter codes (one story is that this was done to make it easier for far-flung photographers to send in orders via telegram, although it may be apocryphal.)

The NOOKY mounts on a screwmount Leica camera, and you attach a collapsible Leica 50mm lens (you need the correct model of NOOKY for your particular lens) to the focusing mount of the NOOKY using the rear bayonet lugs on the lens tube. There are two correcting prisms that line up over the viewfinder window and one of the rangefinder windows, to adjust for the parallax that normally would affect the view at those distances. It is VERY unlikely that these prisms will line up correctly with the viewfinder of an R-D 1!!

Here's a website with some pictures and info about the NOOKY (scroll down a bit), and here is a small picture borrowed from the same website:

 

[john3]

Thanks for the details!