Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/11/11

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Subject: [Leica] Vintage Voigtländer Nokton 1.5
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 12:40:54 -0500

At 11:22 PM 11/10/01 -0500, Simon Stevens wrote:
>With all this talk lately about older fast lenses, I was wondering if
>there is any kind of focussing mount adaptor for the Prominent mount
>Nokton to Leica?
>
>My father has had a Prominent with this lens since the 50's, and both
>are in mint condition (along with a Dynaron 100mm, a Turnit and I think
>a close up lens). The body is a bit too interesting for serious use, but
>I hate to think of such a fine piece of glass just sitting in a closet
>unused.  Is an adaptor even possible?

Well, use the lenses on the Prominent body!  It is a fun camera and is
quite capable of "serious" use.

I don't have the Prominent's back focus but suspect it might be a tad long
for conversion to LTM.  Voigtländer DID make versions of the Nokton and
Ultron in both LTM and Contax RF BM, however.  Leitz did make an adapter --
OOVGS 17684 -- to allow the Prominent lenses to be used on any M39 enlarger
but this would not allow infinity focus on a true LTM camera nor, of
course, was it RF-coupled.

Marc

msmall@roanoke.infi.net  FAX:  +540/343-7315
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