Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]- -----Original Message----- From: TTAbrahams@aol.com <TTAbrahams@aol.com> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Date: Wednesday, January 27, 1999 1:05 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] weird lens >Isaac, the problem with the f2/2" ELCAN is the size of the rear mount- and the >fact that most of the Vinten cameras had a fixed infinity focus. You would >have to make a helicoil to focus it and probably 'carve" out a larger >lensmount in the M-body. I thought that it could become an interesting lens >for 120 film - a kind of Hasselblad SWC camera with the filmback closer to the >rear mount. Let me know if you manage to fit it on a M - nothing like a >challenge and it would be a truly unique M lens! >Tom A How about putting it on a view camera? Do you know what kind of image circle it projects? Could it cover 6x9, or would only cover 6x6? I could get this lens pretty cheap and use it with roll film backs on my 4x5... Sounds like it could be fun! Isaac