Ploot: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 01:25, 25 October 2012

Production era - 1935-1951
Code names
- PLOOT - Mirror reflex housing with fixed eyepiece and double cable release (1935-1940). Note: the early fixed eyepiece was 8 mm higher than the similar, removable post-1940 POOIM (shown ghosted)
- PROON - housing only (1940-1951)
- ODULO = PROON + POOIM
Type - Mirror reflex housing
Optical depth - 62.5 mm for screw mount
Variants - Black body with nickel (rare) or chrome trim. Post 1940 versions had an accessory shoe and the mirror-release button could be locked down. Viewing screens were lenticular or flat. A micro version was introduced in 1950.
Included cable release
- POORQ - Double cable release with three control stops
Available Ploot magnifiers
- PAMOO - 90 degree 5 x eyepiece with reverse image
- POOIM - Vertical 5 x eyepiece w/ swing-in 30 x magnifier (1940-)
Source
- Dennis Laney's Leica Accessory Guide (1st edition) page 45 courtesy of Mike Butkus

SN Start	SN End	Product	Year	Batch
0001	~8000	Ploot	1935-1951	unknown
TOTAL	ASSIGNED	SERIAL NUMBERS	1935-1951	unknown

Superseded by Visoflex I

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 *'''Type''' - Mirror reflex housing
 *'''Optical depth''' - 62.5 mm for screw mount
 *'''Variants''' - Black body with nickel (rare) or chrome trim. Post 1940 versions had an accessory shoe and the mirror-release button could be locked down. Viewing screens were lenticular or flat. A micro version was introduced in 1950.
 *'''Included cable release'''
 **POORQ - Double cable release with three control stops
 *'''Available Ploot magnifiers'''
 **[[PAMOO]] - 90 degree 5 x eyepiece with reverse image
-**[[POOIM]] - Vertical 5 x  eyepiece w/ swing-in 30 x magnifier
+**[[POOIM]] - Vertical 5 x eyepiece w/ swing-in 30 x magnifier (1940-)
 *'''Source'''
 **[http://www.cameramanuals.org/leica_pdf/leica_accessory_guide.pdf Dennis Laney's Leica Accessory Guide (1st edition) page 45] courtesy of Mike Butkus