Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/08/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 09:49 PM 8/17/2008, you wrote: >LUGers > >While going thru this tub-full of Leica gear, I came across this >Novoflex adapter >marked ALLEI. It has a Leica female thread on front to accept LTM >lenses The >back has a bayonet mount, different from the R Leica. > >My guess is some model of the ALPA, what's yours? Novoflex comes in two families. Until the Steinheil family closed down their lensworks in the early 1960's, Novoflex got its lenses from that firm. These lenses use LTM for internal fittings, lens to adapter or adapter to adapter. Following the end of Steinheil, Novoflex shifted its lens sourcing to Dr Staeble GMBH, and these lenses use, of all things, the extremely fine Praktina BM for its internal fitments. An ALLEI, according to my Burleigh Brooks catalogue, is intended to mate with an ALPA bellows to allow the fitment of LTM lenses to such. I'd have to check but I believe that only Novoflex lenses in LTM could achieve infinity focus. Marc msmall@aya.yale.edu Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir!