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Author Message   Glenn Tinkerer Username: Glenn Post Number: 985 Registered: 07-2006 Rating: N/A Votes: 0 Posted on Wednesday, April 04, 2012 - 09:57 am:    You approaching this from the wrong perspective. Get yourself a Visoflex 11 and some lenses to fit same and get close up to nature - I always use the MD on this set up. If you are stuck for genuine Leitz glass, there are plenty of very good pre-set teles out there that can be simply modified to fit the focusing units - some with very basic kitchen table type surgery! A very good alternative is to use a set of Novoflex bellows with suitable Novoflex adapter mounts or the Novoflex series of follow focus telephoto lenses. If you are collecting rangefinder spares with a view to constructing a special, be aware that the M3 type rangefinder is of different 'construction' to the one in the M2 and subsequent models.