Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/06/07

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Subject: [Leica] SOT: Adaptor question - Canon FD lens - Leica R
From: phamard at numericable.fr (Philippe Amard)
Date: Thu Jun 7 08:51:53 2007
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Thank you Doug,

seems I will never be able to try then.
Got to keep looking for a (cheap) Summi as a result.

Thanks again
Phil...x

Douglas Herr wrote:

>Philippe Amard <phamard@numericable.fr> wrote:
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>>Has anyone here ever managed to fit a Canon FD lens to a Leica R body?
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>Not without major surgery.  I had an FD 400mm f/2.8 that had been modified 
>to fit Leica-R (retaining auto-diaphragm and 3-cam meter coupling!) but 
>since the Leica-R mount register is deeper than Canon FD the Canon mount 
>had to be cut off to make the lens fit Leica and focus to infinity.
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>
>Doug Herr
>Birdman of Sacramento
>http://www.wildlightphoto.com
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