Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/06/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Stephen Gandy at Cameraquest sells a variety of adapters to LSM and M-mount. I have the Nikon to M and it does work nicely, but it doesn't have the cams- limits its usefulness to wide angles. It is fun to put a full-frame fisheye on the M6, though it serves no real purpose. Allen >So.... I'm having a grand old time in Japan, scooting about the >country visiting used camera stores...... errr... I mean doing >serious ethnographic research ....... > >today I came across some different type eyepiece magnifiers for M camera: > > 1.15 >and 1.25 > >The 1.15 is designed to bring the 0.85x Leica up to 0.97, or pretty >darn close to 1.0. > >I tried them both and the centers were nice and sharp, but the edges >were distorted. They were priced around $150 each, I think. > > >Other neat things were adaptors to convert pretty much every mount >possible to your Leica-M and Leica-R cameras. Imagine a Nikon SLR >lens on your M6! They have little cams in them that allow you to >use the rangefinder in the M to get the focus distance, then you >transfer the reading to the lens. > >Karen >-- >To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html