Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/26

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Subject: Re: [Leica] 22232 adapter
From: "Henning J. Wulff" <henningw@archiphoto.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 13:40:02 -0800

At 8:24 PM +0000 11/26/99, Gerd Hechtfischer wrote:
>Dear Luggers,
>
>I happened to get a beautiful 22232 adapter ring - the one that
>allows mounting of M42 lenses to a M Body (or, originally to the
>Leicina special camera).
>I tried mounting two different M42 lenses to my M then and found
>that the lenses are about 30 degrees off the 12 o'clock position.
>Has anyone noticed this before? I am a bit in doubt now, because
>I wanted to use it for a fisheye lens and those have unsymmetric
>shades.

Mine aligns the M42 (Pentax in my case) lenses perfectly.

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