Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/04/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]joe b. wrote: > > I don't (yet) understand this phenomenon; you can get Canon lenses > easily- they fit onto Canon slrs, and cheaply too. So what's the big > deal with putting them on a Leica? Unless, of course, one gets a > different optical quality or character *that isn't otherwise > obtainable*. You're in the wrong era, and camera type. We're talking about using OLD Canon Rangefinder lenses from the 40s and 50s which are screw mount, on Leica M cameras, with a screw mount adapter that changes them to Leica M mounts. SLRs need not apply. Except you can buy a Zorkendorfer, and I guess some Japanese adapter to put Leica R lenses on a Canon EOS1n. But I wouldn't recommend it unless you're into aerial photograhy where you're shooting Kodachrome 25, thus wide open at infinity like on German photographer on Compuserve does. -- Eric Welch Grants Pass, OR