Krnome
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Hello. Anybody here who has experience with Leica Extension Tubes? Or The well known Nooky? How does it work?
What do you prefer?
Nooky or Extension tubes?
What do you prefer?
Nooky or Extension tubes?
Questions on Leica Extension Tube
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Roger Hicks
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The NOOKY merely allows you to focus down to about half a metre, and is effectively a variable extension tube with combined viewfinder/focus correction; the "spiders" (BAZOO, BOOWU etc. -- http://www.1839.org/hors/trucs/boowu/sec1.html?lang=en ) provide framing and focus; the FULDY sliding copier http://www.ebay.ca/itm/E-LEITZ-WETZ...E-FOR-LEICA-SCREW-MOUNT-CAMERAS-/390626188881 (or a Visoflex) is needed with plain extension tubes or you'll have no idea of either framing or focus. I've tried the lot, and it all depends on what you want to photograph.
Cheers,
R.
Dralowid
Michael
If your rangefinder isn't "excellent" to start with Nooky is somewhat hit and miss.
As Roger says, what do want to do?
If it an exercise in mad gear close-ups look to the whole Visoflex world for the best fun...otherwise, at the risk of sounding negative, I'd use a different system...if it has to be a Leica get a Leicaflex and bellows, probably cheaper too!
As Roger says, what do want to do?
If it an exercise in mad gear close-ups look to the whole Visoflex world for the best fun...otherwise, at the risk of sounding negative, I'd use a different system...if it has to be a Leica get a Leicaflex and bellows, probably cheaper too!
David Hughes
David Hughes
Hi,
The NOOKY comes in a couple of versions, one for the original Elmar 5cm lens and the other for the later lenses. It's only intended for the collapsible lenses. It acts like a variable ext'n tube but couples with the RF and has a prism to divert the view-finder. Once you got one and played with it it tends to become a display item. And it makes you appreciate SLR's and TTL metering a lot more.
The BELUN is a device with a 50mm ext'n tube that does 1:1 pictures of flat things like stamps. You stand it over/on the flat thing and it frames it. Again, it's a display item once you messed around with it and the exposure tables and so on. Often very cheap as it is made of two parts and they often sell on ebay as separate items.
I've never used a Visoflex or PLOOT and so can't comment on them.
Regards, David
The NOOKY comes in a couple of versions, one for the original Elmar 5cm lens and the other for the later lenses. It's only intended for the collapsible lenses. It acts like a variable ext'n tube but couples with the RF and has a prism to divert the view-finder. Once you got one and played with it it tends to become a display item. And it makes you appreciate SLR's and TTL metering a lot more.
The BELUN is a device with a 50mm ext'n tube that does 1:1 pictures of flat things like stamps. You stand it over/on the flat thing and it frames it. Again, it's a display item once you messed around with it and the exposure tables and so on. Often very cheap as it is made of two parts and they often sell on ebay as separate items.
I've never used a Visoflex or PLOOT and so can't comment on them.
Regards, David
Dralowid
Michael
NOOKY for Elmar, NOOKY HESUM for Hector/Summar and Summitar (I think) and SOOKY for collapsible Summicron...after that my memory fades but there was something similarish for the IIIg.
Then as David and Roger say, all that fixed distance stuff with legs etc.
Michael
Then as David and Roger say, all that fixed distance stuff with legs etc.
Michael
Mr_Flibble
In Tabulas Argenteas Refero
I have used extension tubes, but only on a Visoflex housing so I could see what I was doing. Otherwise I think you need a copy stand for the fixed focus distances of the tubes.
The Nooky is fun too, but only works up to 40cm and as said, your RF needs to be well calibrated for it.
The Nooky is fun too, but only works up to 40cm and as said, your RF needs to be well calibrated for it.
