Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1995/12/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In message <199512110103.UAA10797@moe.infi.net>, Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net> writes >The 65mm Elmar can be mounted on a TM camera by using a TM Viso II or IIa >and a Bellows II. It will focus to infinity. All 65mm Elmars, by the way, >were coated. What I want to do is mount the 65mm Elmar-V on an R camera. >And Leica DID make both a V lens to R body converter (which is still >available, though pricey) and an R lens to M body converter; the latter has >not been actively marketed, I recall, for some years and runs around $250 >used. I can provide the stock number on request. > I've called Leica here in the UK and talked to the man who runs the Leica school and I think even he was getting confused. He said that the screw thread of the Visoflex 65mm Elmar needs to go on a #14167 adapter to fit it onto an R body. But two dealers and Matheson's book on the R5 and apparently a Leica R manual all say that #14167 is the M to R adapter. I'll go with the numbers as any expert can be wrong. So what is the V lens to R body converter? Does it take the bayonet of the Visoflex-fit focusing mount or the screw of the Visoflex lens head on its own? This can get very confusing... Ideally it would have to accept the bayonet focusing mount as otherwise focusing would be impossible without bellows. Or is it assumed that that is how the 65mm Elmar-V will be used on an R body- with bellows? joe b.