Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/19

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Canon FD lenses on Visoflex II ???
From: Henning Wulff <henningw@archiphoto.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 22:56:44 -0800
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At 4:39 PM -0500 3/19/02, Marc James Small wrote:
>At 12:23 PM 3/19/02 -0800, Photo Phreak wrote:
>>
>>     Yes, Canon did make a series of adapters for their old
>>screwmount system.  I remember an A, B, and C as well as
>>39mm. screwthread extension tubes.
>>     But you are correct in that they will not allow focus
>>to infinity.
>
>Canon made adapters to fit LTM and M42 lenses to their FL/FD cameras.  They
>also manufactured extension tubes for their LTM cameras.  I am not aware of
>a Canon-manufactured adapter to fit FD lenses to LTM, however, though such
>should be relatively simple to fabricate.
>
>Marc

I have some of those; they are called 'Canon Lens mount converter B'. 
The converter A was to mount LTM lenses on FD cameras.

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In reply to: Message from "Don Dory" <dorysrus@mindspring.com> (Re: [Leica] Canon FD lenses on Visoflex II ???)
Message from Marc James Small <msmall@infi.net> (Re: [Leica] Canon FD lenses on Visoflex II ???)