Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/09/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]There are three adaptors and they are used with different camera/lens combinations. They are simply thin (1mm) flanges with appropriate bay connections that screw onto the threads of the lens. You don not have to set anything and they work perfectly. I sometimes use them. You may even use the wrong adapter and it will connect the lens to the body, but the wrong lines will be visible in the viewfinder. The adapters are available used from about $60 to about $90. I semme to remember reading in Shutterbug that someone was about to start making them again (not Leica) kw >I've read somewhere that screw thread Leica lenses can be used on M >series bodies with the appropriate adaptor, and that when this is done, >fitting the lenses brings up the correct bright-line in the M finder. > >How does this work, and where is the gizmo which tells the camera what >focal length lens is fitted? If the gizmo is on the adaptor, rather than >the lens, how do you set it, and is it quick to do? > >Are the adaptors expensive? Does anyone use this technique, and if s do >you have an adaptor per screw lens to speed up lens changing? > >It's just I was thinking of getting some screw-thread stuff now, but >buying an M6 some day. I'd want an M fit standard lens then, I think, but >it would be nice to know that the 35 and 90 would work on it while I >saved the pennies. ---- Ken Wilcox Carolyn's Personal Touch Portraits Davison Middle School preferred---> <wilcox@umcc.umich.edu> 600 Dayton, Davison, MI 48423 <kwilcox@genesee.freenet.org>