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

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Subject: [Leica] Re:The slippery slope - "digital"?
From: grduprey at mchsi.com (grduprey@mchsi.com)
Date: Thu Dec 21 20:53:19 2006

Makes me cringe, chopping up R lenses to put another mount on them.

Gene


-------------- Original message from "Christopher Williams" 
<leicachris@worldnet.att.net>: -------------- 


> Hey man, I'm no expert. I've just seen some R lenses on Ebay with AIS 
> mounts. 
> 
> Chris 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: 
> To: "Leica Users Group" 
> 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" 
> : -------------- 
> > 
> > 
> > > 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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