Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/09/05

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To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: Novoflex M42 lens usable on Leica R?
From: "joe b." <joe-b@dircon.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 1996 01:02:22 +0100

In message <9609051859.AA24898@thillana.lcs.mit.edu>, Patrick Sobalvarro
<pgs@thillana.lcs.mit.edu> writes
>The Noflexars I've seen have interchangeable mounts.  Maybe some were
>made without interchangeable mounts, but I don't know.  I have had
>tremendous trouble trying to get a Novoflex Leica R mount from
>Calumet, who are the Novoflex distributors in the U.S.  It's been six
>and a half weeks, and they claim they were supposed to receive the
>mount a week and a half ago, but it hasn't come in yet.  So if you can
>get a mount from Brooklyn Camera Exchange, you will probably do better
>with them, or if you were to deal directly with Novoflex as some
>people suggested I do.  A point of interest, though, is that not all
>Novoflex mounts are made equal.  There were three possible mounting
>systems they asked me about, and it's not clear whether the person
>you talk to at BCE will know about them.

Hi Patrick, thanks for the information.

I just missed this lens- for UKP 50.00!
-- 
joe b.

In reply to: Message from pgs@thillana.lcs.mit.edu (Patrick Sobalvarro) (Re: Novoflex M42 lens usable on Leica R?)