Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/06/04

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Subject: [Leica] Contax RF Lens to Leica LTM Body adapter
From: red735i at earthlink.net (Frank Filippone)
Date: Sun Jun 4 17:09:59 2006

It will NOT focus.  There is no focusing helix on the adapter.

Frank Filippone
red735i@earthlink.net 


-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+red735i=earthlink.net@leica-users.org 
[mailto:lug-bounces+red735i=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Mark
Langer
Sent: Sunday, June 04, 2006 4:21 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] Contax RF Lens to Leica LTM Body adapter

Thanks Frank.  Better to send it to my work address:

Mark Langer
SSAC-Film Studies
Carleton University
1125 Colonel By Drive
Ottawa, ON, Canada. K1S 5B6

I'm dying to see how some of my Zeiss Contax wide angles work on a Leica,
but will also try it with a 50mm Sonnar...


On 6/4/06, Frank Filippone <red735i@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> You win.....
>
> OK, here is the deal... I send it to you, you test it, you send it
> back.  Pretty easy?
>
> Frank Filippone
> 12434 Viana St.
> Cerritos, CA 90703
> red735i@earthlink.net
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+red735i=earthlink.net@leica-users.org [mailto:
> lug-bounces+red735i=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Mark
> Langer
> Sent: Sunday, June 04, 2006 10:49 AM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Contax RF Lens to Leica LTM Body adapter
>
> I'm willing to give it a shot, if you need someone with Contax lenses to
> try
> it out.  I was wondering if these non-focussing mounts would actually
> focus
> to infinity, as I'd love to buy one. This would give me a chance to see if
> they work before investing some money in something that might be useless.
> So if you need someone to test it, I'm game and publically declare that I
> will return it.
>
> Mark
>
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