Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/07/05

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Subject: [Leica] EOS Leica C/Y and M42
From: henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)
Date: Tue Jul 5 16:16:55 2005
References: <42CB0F5A.9090008@gmx.de>

At 12:53 AM +0200 7/6/05, Douglas Sharp wrote:
>With all the recent discussion about EOS/Leica adapters.
>
>Here's a selection of 3 versions, unfortunately 
>I don't have a Cameraquest or Fotodiox as a 
>comparison. According to what I've read and 
>heard they are more than pretty good.
>
>I believe Bob Shell and Z?rkendorfer produce C/Y adapters too.
>
>I wonder when Mr. K will present us with an 
>aperture emulating adapter for Leica R to EOS ?? 
>Now that would be useful.
>
>Talking of CV, does anyone know of a good centre 
>graduated filter for the 12mm Ultra-Wide? 
>Whenthe 12 came out the filter adapter was 
>released with the comment that a grad was soon 
>to follow, later the filter was withdrawn as 
>being not good enough, at least from what I 
>heard from a couple of people close to Ringfoto 
>here in Germany.
>
>cheers
>Douglas

Cosina/Mr.K never produced a centre filter for 
the 12. I've adapted a Schneider LF filter I have 
to the purpose, which works quite well. The setup 
is not very aerodynamic:

http://www.archiphoto.com/Various/RD1vignette/source/12.htm

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