Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/07/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 12:59 PM 7/31/99 -0400, you wrote: > > >-------------------- Begin Original Message -------------------- > >Message text written by INTERNET:leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > >"I would like to fit my Leica M lenses on the Olympus body. Would that be >possible? >I mean technically. Can you fit a rangefinder lens (without the automatic >diaphragm) on a reflex camera? > >If so, how could that work? >" > > >-------------------- End Original Message -------------------- > >You wouldn't get infinity focus, and even if you could put an M lens >(non-Viso) on a reflex body you'd have to be careful to use only those >lenses that wouldn't interfere with the reflex mirror. > >Doug Herr The one way to do this and still get infinity focus would be to pick rf lenses that have detachable lens heads, and just use that front part of the lens. Some of the older lenses did have removable heads, like the 90/4 Elmar and 135/4 Elmar or 135/4.5 Hektor (amongst others). These would clear the body, but you would still need an adaptor of some kind and some way of focusing. Bellows might be the only way to focus a lens head with no focusing helix, unless you find a focusing mount that it fits while still clearing the body and mirror. Joe Berenbaum mailto:joe-b@dircon.co.uk