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Now that my barnack kit is back with me (two CLA's each for camera and lens) I was able to mount the SOOKY. It's a very well-built slab of brass. The window has integrated parallex correction. First the Summicron is collapsed and locked on infinity. Then the bayonet on the rear element of the lens (normally used to lock the lense in the open position) is fitted into the SOOKY and locked. (I think it's cool that Leitz engineered a device to utilize these bayonets.) Then this contraption is mounted like a normal screwmount lens. Focusing is via a lever on SOOKY, or you can still use your Summicron tab, they are right beside each other. Rectangular hoods are out, though, because your entire lens is now turning. What you are left with, then, is a focusing range from 17 inches to 3 1/2 feet. You can fill your frame with a sheet of letter size paper, about the same as a 135mm lens, but I'm standing a couple feet closer, it's a lot smaller, and I'm using my internal finder (with SOOKY's little rangefinder eye, of course). This is what it looks like (taken with my camera phone, sorry):
 

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I will definitely need a new round hood though, only a couple shots were not wracked with flare. I like the SOOKY though...I wanted something to bridge the gap between the Visoflex and the normal range. Weird...the diner shot here looks like kodachrome, but it definitely isn't :)
 

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Gotta love Leica accessories, funniest damn things they are - and with names to match :)

I don't have a 50/2.8 Elmar or Collapsible 'cron for my III (F) so I don't have a lens that the SOOKY could fit.

Considering maybe a SOOKY-M/SOMKY for my M3 but since I only have a rigid Summicron I'd have to get a UOORF as well and they are pretty scarse. Ok..can't belive I actually wrote that... Scary :)
 
Rich Silfver said:
Gotta love Leica accessories, funniest damn things they are - and with names to match :)

I don't have a 50/2.8 Elmar or Collapsible 'cron for my III (F) so I don't have a lens that the SOOKY could fit.

Considering maybe a SOOKY-M/SOMKY for my M3 but since I only have a rigid Summicron I'd have to get a UOORF as well and they are pretty scarse. Ok..can't belive I actually wrote that... Scary :)
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Ahh but the SOOKY life is a GREAT life...all the finest restaurants, beautiful dates, 16-cylinder motorcars, arborreal dells...but...you can't see more than 3 feet in front of you :)
 
I thought, Langdon, that one should focus with the SOOKY, the lens being locked at infinity. Same with the NOOKY. I'm far from certain about this, I should say. If you get the same result both ways, then you have the answer. Or maybe the thing came with instructions.
 
No, no instructions, but the tab is locked, so, you COULD grab that just as easily since it's right beside the SOOKY lever, but now that I think of it...that might eventually put some strain on the fragile bayonet. Either way, the whole device is turning.
 
Some SOOKY

Some SOOKY

Considering maybe a SOOKY-M/SOMKY for my M3 but since I only have a rigid Summicron I'd have to get a UOORF as well and they are pretty scarse. Ok..can't belive I actually wrote that... Scary
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At the risk of offending some old Leica buffs who remember the days when it was very expensive to send telegrams, some of you may remember the movie "Cabaret," with Liza Minelli, who was complaining to her friend, Michael York, that her money-conscious Dad, on hearing that she had, let's say, leprosy, might cable, "Gee, kid, hope your nose doesn't fall off. Love, Dad..." Leica did the same; it created code names for dealers who could cable, for instance: One SOOKY...and get the item shipped immediately...regards, bob
 
bob cole said:
Considering maybe a SOOKY-M/SOMKY for my M3 but since I only have a rigid Summicron I'd have to get a UOORF as well and they are pretty scarse. Ok..can't belive I actually wrote that... Scary
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At the risk of offending some old Leica buffs who remember the days when it was very expensive to send telegrams, some of you may remember the movie "Cabaret," with Liza Minelli, who was complaining to her friend, Michael York, that her money-conscious Dad, on hearing that she had, let's say, leprosy, might cable, "Gee, kid, hope your nose doesn't fall off. Love, Dad..." Leica did the same; it created code names for dealers who could cable, for instance: One SOOKY...and get the item shipped immediately...regards, bob
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That's pretty darn funny. :D Looking at my dad's Lionel train catalogs from the early 1900's, they had a very similar coding system. Ikea springs to mind as well, would certainly align with their persona of trying to create as little additional cost to the consumer as possible, or something.
 
Some Sooky

Some Sooky

on hearing that she [Liza Minelli in "Cabaret"] had, let's say, leprosy, her Dad might cable, "Gee, kid, hope your nose doesn't fall off. Love, Dad..."
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I forgot to mention that in the old days, cables were limited to exactly 10 words or they become very expensive...that's the reason for Leica's code words...regards, bob cole
 
Langdon, what you have are two focussing helicoids, one on what is essentially an extension tube and the other on the lens. I recall using a NOOKY decades ago and being told not to use the lens while focussing. Seems reasonable to suppose that that sort of accessory, its optical wedges and its focussing extension are matched to one another -- while the lens is just something you stick on to the front. I say again, though, that trial frames -- four should be enough, two each at different distances -- will tell you what's what.
 
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