Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/06/07

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Subject: [Leica] Re: 90mm's
From: don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory)
Date: Wed Jun 7 18:55:24 2006
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Lee,
Canon made a whole slew of adapters to use other makes of lenses on their
bodies when they first came out with the FD lens mount in the mid/late
sixties.  You could use Nikon, Pentax, Exacta, Viso, and LTM lenses.  I
think Minolta also but not sure.  So if you can track down one of these
adapters then you can use some pretty interesting lenses on some very good
Canon bodies.

At one time, Stephen Gandy indicated that he could acquire Exacta to EOS
adapters if you didn't mind some not quite infinity focus.  This wouldn't
really be an issue with either wide angles or a portrait lens.

Don
don.dory@gmail.com


On 6/7/06, lkhermann <lkhermann@bresnan.net> wrote:
>
> At 09:16 PM 6/7/2006 -0400, you wrote:
>
> >The 75 Biogon was $79 because the owner didn't think Exacta mount lenses
> >were worth anything(they are if you have an Exacta to FD adapter).  These
> >lenses have interesting charachter that can be used to advantage for
> >specific situations.
>
> Don,
>         What is an FD adapter?  I still have my old 50mm f2.8 Tessar
> attached to my equally ancient Exacta.  I always felt that this was a
> wonderful lens.  Does an FD adapter somehow attach to my SL?  I certainly
> do not propose to try to use the Exacta again for many reasons, the least
> of which is it does not work any more.  What is an FD adapter?
> Thanks
> Lee
>
>
>
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