Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/05/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 08:55 PM 5/30/06 -0700, Frank Filippone wrote: >There were 2 different adapters available..... One was for 50mm lenses and it had a focusing helix ( because the Zeiss 50mm lenses >were all fitted to the camera that had a built in focusing helix for this purpose). This is the more famous one and costs like >around $350-450... I forget who made it....Orion ? ( I think Orion was the old name for Miranda...?) > >Now the other one...... > >A simple adapter with the Leica thread on the back side and the Zeiss external bayonet on the front side..... cheap and a lot of >these were made..... some fancy, some seem home grown. I think Novoflex made, and still offers one of these. Infinity focus is >fuzzy in my memory banks..... > >I have an odd one..... Leica LTM lenses to Contax RF Bayonet body adapter. Only one I have seen...... > The Orion adapters are the ones most highly sought after judging from the market prices they bring. The British Cook & Perkins adapters are also highly regarded, especially the focusing model. I recall that Wray also made such an adapter but I have never seen one of these and only know it from an advert in a BJP Annual from the late 1940's. Kilfitt made another adapter but it seems to be quite rare. I was unaware of the Novoflex adapter but this is quite possible, as Novoflex would and will still manufacture adapters to special order. I think that there is an adapter in current production in Japan but I have only seen a discussion of this in VIEWFINDER. I own a focusing C&P adapter which works nicely. I also picked up a bizarre adapter a decade or so back from a friend, a non-focusing LTM lens to Contax RF BM adapter, about which I know nothing other than that it exists. Marc msmall@aya.yale.edu Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir!