Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/04/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 06:05 PM 4/18/98 -0500, Neal Findley wrote: >While sorting thru my grab bag of leica filters, adapters etc, I found a >curious adapter with 39mm threads on one side and female bayonet mount on >the other (bayonet mount is much smaller than M mount). The number on the >adapter is 17671. Does anyone know what it is? This is an adapter originally produced for the Valoy II enlarger to adapt Leica M normal lenses for use as an enlarging lens. It would date from the mid or late 1950's. It will NOT allow M lenses to be realistically fitted to an LTM camera -- there would be no infinity focus, and no means of focusing the rig. (Though, I suppose, with a Focaslide, you could figure out where it did focus and calibrate it for close-up work by zone focusing.) Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!