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Subject: [Leica] Leica R to Canon FD adapter?
From: clogz@ytti.fi (Juha Immonen)
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 15:03:53 +0200

Hi,

I found an old post from photo.net and I'm intrested about the adapter, is 
that commercial one or something selfmade? Does any of you have pics, specs, 
where-to-buy info or anything? That would solve my 'problem' with R lenses and without R body.

About the lens performance, is it same with FD and adapter than std R body?

Thanks in advance,

Juha Immonen
Finland


- -- Joakim Ahnfelt, August 29, 1997 

I enjoyed Sean's article on the Contax SLR's. I'm also going through a similar dilemma with 
my system. I'm a Canon A1, T-90 user and have a small collection of FD lenses. However I've 
been drawn by the Zeiss quality since I purchased my G-1 a few years ago. I use the G-1 
quite a bit and have not had many problems with it, but alas the lens selections is limited. 

To my surprise, I discovered that the Canon bodies had a shorter lens mount to film 
distance. I started to explore the possibility of mounting other system lenses onto the 
Canon. I found a Leica R to Canon FD adapter recently which I use for the old Leica Visoflex 
lenses. The infinity focus was preserved very well and I did not have any problems with it. 
I also have a few Zeiss Medium Format lenses that are 'adapted' to Canon via T-Mounts and 
M-42 adapters. 

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