Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/12/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 3:19 PM -0800 12/25/04, Frank Filippone wrote:
>Have you tried a CL/CLE? I bet that would work just fine......
>
>Frank Filippone
>red735i@earthlink.net
Now to my mind, _that_ is an awkward solution. I don't want a CL or
CLE or the hassles of keeping it alive. I had a CL but got rid of it
after a number of servicing issues.
I'm an M only user except for a Bessa L for my 15, and yet I have
absolutely no problems with adapters. A drop of blue loctite does the
trick for me, and I could, if necessary, remove them again. So now
the lenses are M lenses as much as anything made by Leica, and as it
happens, all line up at 12 o'clock and work well. The 35/1.2, and
possibly the 40/1.4 (I can't recall how big the rear element is from
Photokina) need the slightly larger M mount opening to work,
otherwise they would be LTM lenses as well. I think Mr. Kobayashi did
exactly the right thing, and I don't believe he will lose many sales
at all because of it. Certainly not to me.
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