Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/09/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Your right! That was my oversight! I need to pay better attention. But just for further information, I'm going to check around Google and see if anyone has actually tried something like this. If not, then I won't bother trying myself. Xavian-Anderson Macpherson ShingoshiDao H. Ball Arche wrote: > Not enlarging lens - projecting lens, like for throwing slides across the > room against a screen. > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Xavian-Anderson Macpherson <Shingoshi at comcast.net> > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 8:11:49 PM > Subject: Re: [Leica] Elmaron 60mm f/2.8 in a Helicoid Focusing mount? > > Thanks guys! It's just that with all of the posts I've seen in other > forums about using lenses like these for macro work, I was wondering if it > would work for me. Given how low the price is, I'm tempted to get the lens > anyway. So what's the real thread size of the enlarging lenses from Leica? > I thought everyone used the M39 as the mounting standard. > > Additionally, you should know that I'm using this lens *on a digital CCTV > camera with a 1/3" chip*. I think that combination will wind up only using > the center of the lens' projected image. So if there was a concern about > uniform sharpness or illumination across a 35mm frame, that doesn't apply > here. > > Thanks again, > Xavian-Anderson Macpherson > ShingoshiDao > > Henning Wulff wrote: > >>> I don't currently have this lens in my possession. I see threads on this >>> Elmaron near the middle of the body. Are these threads M39? If so, will >>> the back of the lens be too deep to fit the recess of the Helicoid >>> Focusing mount? >>> -- >>> >> This is the projection lens, right? Those are not M39 threads. Optically, >> it would not be that good a taking lens. >> >> > > > --