Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/11/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 11:22 PM 11/10/01 -0500, Simon Stevens wrote: >With all this talk lately about older fast lenses, I was wondering if >there is any kind of focussing mount adaptor for the Prominent mount >Nokton to Leica? > >My father has had a Prominent with this lens since the 50's, and both >are in mint condition (along with a Dynaron 100mm, a Turnit and I think >a close up lens). The body is a bit too interesting for serious use, but >I hate to think of such a fine piece of glass just sitting in a closet >unused. Is an adaptor even possible? Well, use the lenses on the Prominent body! It is a fun camera and is quite capable of "serious" use. I don't have the Prominent's back focus but suspect it might be a tad long for conversion to LTM. Voigtländer DID make versions of the Nokton and Ultron in both LTM and Contax RF BM, however. Leitz did make an adapter -- OOVGS 17684 -- to allow the Prominent lenses to be used on any M39 enlarger but this would not allow infinity focus on a true LTM camera nor, of course, was it RF-coupled. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir! - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html