Re: [Leica] m42, leica adapter

[John Collier <jbcollier@home.com>]

Novoflex makes just such an adapter. Their URL is:

http://www.novoflex.de/html/index_e.htm

Kindermann Canada, the soon to be late Leica distributor, handles them.
Their website with details of shops that deal with them is:

http://www.leica.kindermann.com/

Good luck

John Collier
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

> From: C Sikora <csikora@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca>
> 
> Good day everyone,
> 
> I recently picked up a bellows unit for LTM cameras. Much to my surprise,
> I found out that someone, a previous owner with some insight, had machined
> an apater for this non-leitz unit to accept the lens head from a 135/4.5
> Hektor.  As luck would have it, I happen to have just gotten in said lens.
> 
> As I do not have a visoflex for my IIIa and would like to try out this
> combination, is there such an adapter to allow the 39mm Leica thread mount
> business end of the bellows to be mounted onto my Pentax Spotmatic (M42
> mount, of cource). I suppose I could have one machined, but I don't know
> the exact threads-per-inch of either the leica or the M42 mount. Would
> anyone have an adapter handy to allow mounting of Leica TM lenses on a
> Pentax body?
> 
> Besides use of the 135 Hektor lens head, I would like to be able to use
> some of those wonderful enlarging lenses for some macro work.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Chris Sikora
> Alberta, Canada
>