LTM: TELYT 20cm - Show 'n Tell.

[jcgoodman]

For LTM enthusiasts, here is a pic of my old, uncoated Telyt

20cm lens - it is joined to a PLOOT mirror housing and early

Leica IIIc, with PAMOO 90-degree eyepiece and tubular

frame-finder. Sometimes I add a SCNOO trigger-winder. Despite

the mass of equipment, the outfit is surprisingly well-balanced

when hand-held.<div></div>

[jcgoodman]

A pic taken with the Telyt 20cm outfit.<div></div>

[jsc1]

John Charles Goodman...

 

YIKES!

 

I see a skinny, original Leitz neckstrap! You carry all that stuff around your neck?

[jcgoodman]

Hello Josiah - not actually swinging from my neck. I just use the

neckstrap as a safeguard against the millstone dropping to the

ground and making a nasty crater in the concrete! John.

[jsc1]

"Cautious men wear a belt and suspenders."

 

Cleo is looking good...

[jcgoodman]

Actually, this cat is Rio - a lethargic male, not so much model

material as Cleo the long-haired female - she featured in my

Thambar shots some weeks back. :) Cheers.

[jcgoodman]

A weird shot taken with the Telyt 20cm contraption:<div></div>

[jv1]

After a while I could even discover a camera in that first pic!

[alex_lofquist]

I shot in Africa with that setup many years ago. Even when I went to Nikon AF some years later (due to vision problems) I could not bear to part with it. It is lighter than an equivalent SLR, though hardly quick focussing.

[david_werbeloff1]

Wow John, what a set-up! I didn't realize that the eyepiece and prism were meant to hook around the side of the camera body. It all makes sense now that I see that the accessory shoe is then oriented toward the top of the camera. Question is, if you're looking directly through the lens why do you need an additional 20cm viewfinder?

Great cat pics, especially the second showing the alert eye of the Great Hunter skulking in the bushes! I've used the 280mm with a Viso III handheld and that feels hard enough to hold steady and focus accurately. The PLOOT must be much more difficult, and yet your images provide evidence of the wonderful results.

[jcgoodman]

Hello David W. - Most shooting is done using the framefinder,

with mirror lock up, with the reflex option used initially to check

focus - good for close-focusing on still subjects. Otherwise I

would have to use a twin-cable release which gets a bit clumsy.

Sometimes I have used the later VISO I + a Bencini brand cine

pistol grip with single cable release leading to a Leitz pneumatic

release connecting camera and mirror. In my setup, above, the

90-degree eyepiece (PAMOO) is of the first design using a

mirror, making the image appear upside-down. A later prism

version, such as is used on Reprovit copying stand, erected the

image, making for ease of use. The setup, as I pictured it above,

represents the best that could be obtained around 1940.

Cheers.

[andrew robertson]

Kind of has a low contrast look to it.

[carl_larocca1]

I have the glass but my only accessories are a Leica CIII and a Zenit 3M. At one time I had computed the total of tube extension needed to mount it and retain infinity focus. I planned to zone focus from f/8 down and cover up the framelines in a 135 viewfinder. Suffice to say the project is on the very back burner.