Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/11/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>Whether by accident or design, Leitz have made it so that interchange of >their >equipment and that of other manufacturers is very difficult. Why would you expect every manufacturer to make sure they can have a lens-film distance varied in large enough amounts in distance so people could manufacture adapters? Obviously it's not intentional They design their cameras to make the distance exactly right. For Nikon and Leica, those standards were set in 1959 and 1964 (or before when the spec. was set). If they want their lenses to work on their cameras in the future, they stick to that. By the way, there is an adapter for putting Leica R lenses on an EOS1n camera made by Zorkendorfer. It works too. But you have to shoot wide open. I know a German aerial photographer on Compuserve who does it. The other way won't work. That's why EOS lenses won't work on the Leica S1, where Nikon and Contax lenses will. There's no way to control the aperture on an EOS lens without an EOS body. - -- Eric Welch St. Joseph, MO http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch More hay, Trigger? No thanks, Roy, I'm stuffed!