Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 1:54 PM -0700 3/5/00, C Sikora wrote: >Good day everyone, > >I recently picked up a bellows unit for LTM cameras. Much to my surprise, >I found out that someone, a previous owner with some insight, had machined >an apater for this non-leitz unit to accept the lens head from a 135/4.5 >Hektor. As luck would have it, I happen to have just gotten in said lens. > >As I do not have a visoflex for my IIIa and would like to try out this >combination, is there such an adapter to allow the 39mm Leica thread mount >business end of the bellows to be mounted onto my Pentax Spotmatic (M42 >mount, of cource). I suppose I could have one machined, but I don't know >the exact threads-per-inch of either the leica or the M42 mount. Would >anyone have an adapter handy to allow mounting of Leica TM lenses on a >Pentax body? > >Besides use of the 135 Hektor lens head, I would like to be able to use >some of those wonderful enlarging lenses for some macro work. > >Thanks in advance. > >Chris Sikora >Alberta, Canada Pentax made two adapters for M42->LTM and back. The thin one, which you want, is the 'A' adapter. The other is of course the thicker 'B' adapter. Other companies such as Kilfitt also made them. By now they have largely settled to the bottom of most junk drawers and boxes. I have a couple of each and find them invaluable in cobbling up macro setups for any magnification, along with enlarging lenses and old 8mm movie lenses (reversed) and a number of Canon LTM extension tubes up to 200mm in length. * Henning J. Wulff /|\ Wulff Photography & Design /###\ mailto:henningw@archiphoto.com |[ ]| http://www.archiphoto.com