Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/11/24

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Leicina, was: Flange focal depths
From: Malcolm McCullough <blayne@mbox2.singnet.com.sg>
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 21:19:51 +0800

>I have seen (and held in my hand) an Arri to Leica M adaptor.
>It was supposed to mount Arri lenses to a Leicina Special Camera.
>(The Leicina has the same mount as the M, this is also what the
>22228 adaptor is made for). The Arri-Mount was just a tube where
>some lens barrel could be fixed using three screws located at 120 degrees
>to each other, pointing to the inside. This implies that the Arri's 
>focal plane registration is higher than the Leica M's.
>Don't know what the Leitz order-# was.
>

Gerd,
Thanks for that, I've never heard of such a thing. Unfortunately it is the
wrong way round for me.
I have a Leicina Special and it is a wonderful camera. The two lenses I
have for it - a 6 to 66 zoom (rebadged Schneider?) and a 10 mm Macro
Cinegon (Schneider) are superb things. Though they have M bayonets, they
have a shorter flange focal depth than the standard M. If I use an M lens I
have to rack out to get focus. Is the 22228 adaptor the device which
corrects that?

Unfortunately 16 mm and 35 mm format lenses aren't much use to me for Super
8 - they are too long for my use. Apart from that Super 8 isn't much use in
Singapore because no-one here has a Super 8 gate for a telecine machine.

Anybody else out there still using a Leicina (of any kind?)
Regards
Malcolm