[Leica] carry camera - eco pancake

[lrzeitlin at gmail.com (Lawrence Zeitlin)]

Al writes:
"For the adventurous owner of a GF-1 who does not have the 20mm/f1.7 lens,
here

is an alternate source for a fairly-thin pancake lens.  You can modify an
Industar 69 (28mm f2.8 LTM lens for Chaika half-frame camera) and use
it with an
LTM adapter."


That looks like a vary nice adaptation. But Russian lenses are not the
only candidates for adaption. If you hunt through the old lens bins at
camera store clearance sales there are a number of high quality lenses
with a short back focus that could be modified to fit a micro 4/3
mount. Lenses for Robot cameras had, as I recall, a back focus of
30mm, as did lenses for the Olympus Pen F. The Robot lenses were made
by Zeiss and were very highly regarded. They had focal lengths from
32.5mm through 75mm. The mount was a very simple screw thread and
could be easily altered. Calumet sold several adapters for the Robot
lenses. The Oly Pen lenses could be similarly modified. The Pen F
series of cameras had excellent lenses. Trust Eugene Smith.

Larry Z