Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/12/05

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Subject: Re: [Leica] R Lenses on Canon bodies?
From: Joseph Yao <joseph@yao.com>
Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 22:57:35 +0800

There is no correction lens, since the mount register for the Leica R is
greater than that of Canon EOS.

There are several manufacturers for the Leica R-Canon EOS adapter.  The
Novoflex one is the most expensive, but IMHO not the best.

Joseph Yao

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Dr. Joseph Yao
joseph@yao.com


on 5/12/03 10:43 pm, Eric Welch at eric@jphotog.com wrote:

> You are indeed incorrect. There is a mechanical adapter (which I
> believe had a correction lens in the back). In fact, I believe there
> were (if not still are) two manufacturers of such a device.
> 
> On Dec 5, 2003, at 5:45 AM, Howard Ritter wrote:
> 
>> But--how is this done? Surely no mechanical adapter would be possible,
>> and
>> Canon wouldn't have adopted the Leica R mounting architecture for its
>> SLRs
>> (or would that be vice-versa?), would they? Or is one of my assumptions
>> incorrect?
> Eric
> Carlsbad, CA

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