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Darryl Roberts

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• Jul 13, 2020

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Hi,

I emailed the seller, but haven't yet heard from him.

Does anyone know what the circled attachment is?

Thank you.

 

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Donald Qualls

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• Jul 13, 2020

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Looks like an extended PC socket to me.

 

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• Jul 13, 2020

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^^^Me too.

 

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• Jul 13, 2020

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You can try pulling it off--twist a little, if it is stubborn. The part on the lens that it mates to certainly seems to be a PC connector.

 

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Probably it is an adapter from the Prontor-Compur (PC) ISO 519 type to some ancient connector type (http://www.jollinger.com/photo/articles/flash-connectors.html), just remove it.

BTW, nice Sironar-N... this is a great lens !!

 

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• Jul 13, 2020

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138S said:

Probably it is an adapter from the Prontor-Compur (PC) ISO 519 type to some ancient connector type (http://www.jollinger.com/photo/articles/flash-connectors.html), just remove it.

BTW, nice Sironar-N... this is a great lens !!

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Thanks again

 

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• Jul 14, 2020

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138S said:

Probably it is an adapter from the Prontor-Compur (PC) ISO 519 type to some ancient connector type (http://www.jollinger.com/photo/articles/flash-connectors.html), just remove it.

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That is a quite modern shutter, It for sure has the PC connectior.
(And so far I do not know of any other than PC connector at a german LF shutter.)

And whatever it is, it puts a leverage load on the connector at the shutter. A piece of cable inbetween woud have been the better solution.

 

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AgX said:

And whatever it is...

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Better inspecting the image, it looks that in the left side we have a cut cable and not a socket... so probably last owner cut a PC connector form an old sync cable to use it as a cap to protect the PC socket from taking dirt, dust, etc.

With DSLRs we use this:



Last user could have used an smaller connector for the protecting cap effect, but he used what he had at hand... Well, now Darryl knows that the former owner took care of his equipment, this is always good.

 

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-) best solution would be one of those caps delivered with more modern SLRs. Not very common in rummage boxes... One could have even glued a string to it to not get it lost.
-) second best solution would have been what you just described.
-) the thing in your first picture though is a hermaprodite plug, I never have seen before, and not a cut-off PC connector, cut off from a sync cable.