Dummy (attrape) Leitz lenses question

[darkosaric]

Are those Dummy (attrape) Leitz lenses usable at all? They have glass inside, can they be used - for example wide open only? Or they do not work at all? The same for bodies - to use some parts as spares, like camera bottom, or viewfinder glass?

 

[M-88]

Optical glass and regular glass are two different things and I suspect even if there's a full lens array included in those dummies, they will give less than sub-par results. If any at all.

 

[AgX]

I'm anyone but a Leiconian, thus I was not aware of any dummie lenses except for this one:
https://www.prophoto-online.de/image-wm/19561

But read this:
https://translate.google.de/transla...trappe-mit-seltenem-summitar-dummy&edit-text=

 

[M-88]

1900 Euro for a dummy camera. I could buy a decent car for that much money. What a time to be alive!

 

[guangong]

There is no explanation that can explain a dedicated collector. I realized this many years ago when I was at a fair and discovered that I had thrown away a fortune in beer cans. Yet, most of the stuff in museums found their sources from collectors.