Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/10
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At 8:31 PM -0800 1/10/01, Roland Smith wrote:
>That's an intriguing thought. Can they do the same with my 12mm with a
>Canon FD mount?
>
>What do you do for a viewfinder?
>
>Roland Smith
>roland@dnai.com
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Sal DiMarco,Jr." <sdmp007@pressroom.com>
>To: "LUG >for posts" <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
>Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 1:47 PM
>Subject: [Leica] Re: Fish-Eye for M- Camera
>
>
>> Luggers
>>
>> For those of you out there who really want a fish-eye on your
>M-camera,
>> I suggest you do what I did......
>> Get a 7.5mm f.5.6 Fish-Eye Nikkor and send it to Professional Camera
>> Repair Service in New York City so they can make a Nikon 'F' to Leica 'M'
>> adapter ring.
>> The other choice is the older 8mm f/8 Fish-Eye Nikkor.
>> Neither lens will meter with an M6 since the rear element is either
>lens
>> is only a couple of millimeters away from the film plane.
>> The lenses are very hard to find, and expensive, but the adapter ring
>> shouldn't cost more than $75.00US...
Is this a third party 12mm? In any case, yes. There are also some
'Canon Lens Mount Converter B'-s still floating around; these take FD
mount lenses and make them LTM. Then you use a standard Bayonet-LTM
converter.
I used to have a Canon 7.5mm lens that I did this with. At present I
don't have a full 180 fisheye, but use a 17mm Takumar with a Leitz
22232 Leicina converter on my M cameras. In either case, I use a door
viewer glued onto an accessory shoe as a finder. For the 17, I use
tape (black, of course) to trim the view to what the film will see.
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