Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/05/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Henning, Actually, Tamron did make a very few Adaptall II mounts in EOS; at least the one I have came in a Tamron box and is marked so. It even works although standard manual procedures apply. On 5/18/07, Henning Wulff <henningw@archiphoto.com> wrote: > > At 9:20 PM +0200 5/18/07, Douglas Sharp wrote: > >Hallo, Henning, and thanks for taking a look > > > >I reckon the bits that Novoflex added amount to about 600 grammes - > >very solid German engineering. I'm very impressed with the colour > >rendition and the 3D look of the results so far - I'll try to get > >around to trying out the macro feature over the weekend. > >What I have discovered is that the lens will fit on a Canon 20D with > >any Adaptall-II (Leica, Rollei, CY) + the appropriate adapter to EOS > >but won't attach to an EOS film body with the CY + EOS adapter - strange. > >Does any one know if Tamron made an Adaptall-II for EOS mounts? Or > >did they only produce EOS compatible lenses (Canon EF) with fixed > >mounts. > >Cheers > >Douglas > > No, there is not EOS Adaptall-II mount. Doesn't really work because > the camera has this desire to control the aperture, so it didn't make > that much sense, especially since the EOS mount wasn't really > established until the 90's when the Adaptall mount started fading. > > -- > * Henning J. Wulff > /|\ Wulff Photography & Design > /###\ mailto:henningw@archiphoto.com > |[ ]| http://www.archiphoto.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Don don.dory@gmail.com