tripod collar for tele-elmar 135/4

[riccadonna]

As I seldom post a gearhead stuff and after seeing a great general interest in DIY stuff I decided have a go. The sotry is about a Tele-Elmar 135/4 which is my longest ( and heaviest ) lens in my full travel gear, a kind of just in case lens. There`s one draw back to it comparing to it`s prevoius edition Elmar 135/4 that it doesn`t have a tripod mounting and it matters. The Tele-Elmar, some two pounds heavy ( boy it`s buitld like panzer ) when mounted on Ricoh or Leica is so much of center that vibration become an issue and when in vertical position it pulls the body down ( to counter it I`d have to weld camera to tripod ). Solution? A tripod collar. I looked and looked and then

 

[Wiener]

The brass bolt and nut certainly adds a touch of class...Leica patent pending?
Andy

 

[olyz]

Stanislaw, pretty invention, could be of mine . You also can take Bellows and Visoflex. Rotating the camera horizontal to vertical format and focusing from 1:1 to infinity

Christian

 

[riccadonna]

Andy- no chance with patent pending, chinese have already put it on production line :evil: , therefore it`s free to copy- world!
Christian - yes Leica bellows could probably do but the size, the size and the weight. In fact I saw once very minimalistic Nowoflex bellows with m-mounts, still bigger then
my plumbers fitting. There`s a third solution but really complicated and expensive. You start with a m-mount ring that has the thicknes of Visoflex, then put on a 16466 OUBIO adapter used for Telyt 200/4 head which has tripod collar and rotates, then find a focusing ring that will take 135/4 optical head. My head`s spinning.