Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/06/07

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Subject: [Leica] SOT: Adaptor question - Canon FD lens - Leica R
From: telyt at earthlink.net (Douglas Herr)
Date: Thu Jun 7 05:45:11 2007

Philippe Amard <phamard@numericable.fr> wrote:

>Has anyone here ever managed to fit a Canon FD lens to a Leica R body?

Not without major surgery.  I had an FD 400mm f/2.8 that had been modified 
to fit Leica-R (retaining auto-diaphragm and 3-cam meter coupling!) but 
since the Leica-R mount register is deeper than Canon FD the Canon mount had 
to be cut off to make the lens fit Leica and focus to infinity.


Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com

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