ZOOAN: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 22:21, 6 July 2011

Production era - 1938-19??
Code number - 16495
Type - Short, chrome focusing mount for Hektor f= 13.5 cm 1:4.5 with Visoflex I
Variants
- Black and nickel, no baffles
- Black and chrome, 3 baffles
- Chrome, 3 baffles
  - "The black ones have brass focusing threads, which are very bright and polished. I can see why they added the baffles. The all chrome ones have light alloy focusing threads, which are dull in finish. So maybe at some point later in production, the chrome ZOOANs also were manufactured with only one baffle." zeitz - per forum discussion [4] below
Source
- Dennis Laney's Leica Accessory Guide (1st edition) page 46 courtesy of Mike Butkus
Forum discussion
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 **Black and chrome, 3 baffles
 **Chrome, 3 baffles
-***"The black ones have brass focusing threads, which are very bright and polished. I can see why they added the baffles. The all chrome ones have light alloy focusing threads, which are dull in finish. So maybe at some point later in production, the chrome ZOOANs also were manufactured with only one baffle." [http://www.l-camera-forum.com/leica-forum/members/zeitz.html zeitz] - per forum discussion [3] below
+***"The black ones have brass focusing threads, which are very bright and polished. I can see why they added the baffles. The all chrome ones have light alloy focusing threads, which are dull in finish. So maybe at some point later in production, the chrome ZOOANs also were manufactured with only one baffle." [http://www.l-camera-forum.com/leica-forum/members/zeitz.html zeitz] - per forum discussion [4] below
 *'''Source'''
 **[http://www.cameramanuals.org/leica_pdf/leica_accessory_guide.pdf Dennis Laney's Leica Accessory Guide (1st edition) page 46] courtesy of Mike Butkus