Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/12/21

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Subject: [Leica] Re:The slippery slope - "digital"?
From: leicachris at worldnet.att.net (Christopher Williams)
Date: Thu Dec 21 10:16:46 2006
References: <122120061706.13808.458ABF000007092C000035F0219791336303010CD2079C080C03BF970A9D9F9A0B9D09@mchsi.com>

Hey man, I'm no expert. I've just seen some R lenses on Ebay with AIS mounts.

Chris

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <grduprey@mchsi.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2006 12:06 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Re:The slippery slope - "digital"?


> Chris,
> 
> What about mount size discrepencies?  Jus tlooking at the R mount along 
> side the Nikon mount, the R mount is much larger.
> 
> Gene
> 
> 
> -------------- Original message from "Christopher Williams" 
> <leicachris@worldnet.att.net>: -------------- 
> 
> 
> > I've seen a few Leica R lenses on Ebay that have hand made AIS adapters. 
> > 
> > Chris 
> > 
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: 
> > To: ; "Leica Users Group" 
> > Cc: "Vick Ko" 
> > Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2006 9:37 AM 
> > Subject: Re: Re: [Leica] The slippery slope - "digital"? 
> > 
> > 
> > > Bingo! Thank you Allen. 
> > > 
> > > Last thing I want to be doing is buying more lenses. I do have a few 
> > > AI 
> > lenses. 
> > > 
> > > But I understand due to body thicknesses, the Nikon can never take 
> > > Leica 
> > glass. The Canon can take Leica glass with the adapter. 
> > > 
> > > Is that so? 
> > > 
> > > regards 
> > > Vick 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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