Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/04/10

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Leicoid Digital.....
From: Doug Herr <telyt@earthlink.net>
Date: 10 Apr 2001 07:56:39 -0700

On Tue, 10 April 2001, "Steve Barbour" wrote:

> 
> How can I mount Leica M lenses on to a state of the art digital body,  as
> available currently  from  Canon or Nikon?
> 
> 
> 
>                (is this a fantasy or what?)
> 
> 
> -----   Steve

For normal focussing distances this is a fantasy, because the flange-to-film plane distance on a rangefinder is shorter than on any 35mm-based reflex camera, at least the ones I know of.  For close-ups with typical M lenses, or viso lenses at normal distances, you can use one of the adapters like those sold by Stephen Gandy to put the lens on a D30 or D1, or you can use a viso-to-R adapter and then get a Novoflex R-to-EOS adapter.

Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com
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