Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/11/23

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Subject: [Leica] Braun Paxette
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 15:43:36 -0500

At 12:58 PM 1998-11-23 -0000, Jem Kime, Man of Mystery, wrote:
>There were many 39mm lenses made for Braun Paxettes which have no coupling
>and a different film plane to lens flange distance than the Leica.


WHAT is the back-focus (optical registration) for the Braun cameras?  I
have heard that they used the M39 mount with an M42 optical registration
(45.5mm), the same as the later KMZ Zenit SLR's, but can find no
confirmation of this.

Marc

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