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Subject: [Leica] M-lenses on M8
From: kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)
Date: Tue Dec 9 15:38:40 2008
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On Dec 9, 2008, at 12:24 PM, Seth Rosner wrote:

> Steve - and Sonny - take care; the only issue there is that the  
> threads of the Rigid Summicron focusing mount do not uniformly match  
> the threads of a particular optical unit. Some years ago, thinking  
> to use the optical unit of my DR as a rigid, I bought a focus mount  
> from Don Goldberg who warned me about this and offered to take it  
> back if it didn't work. It didn't. Result was that the optical unit,  
> when mounted on the adapter and my M4 or M6 had the diaphragm and  
> rangefinder scales completely out of sight, a bit to the right of  
> bottom dead center. So a focusing mount might, or might not, match  
> and align the optical head correctly.


thanks Seth...yes, I found exactly this too, some work some don't...

I believe too I found a previous e-mail (of yours?) talking about this  
problem...

I eventually found a mount that worked fine,

but I went ahead and circ'd a DR that I had and loved, in order to use  
it on the M8...

many thanks, Steve
>
>
> Best,
>
> Seth
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Barbour" <kididdoc@cox.net>
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2008 11:57 AM
> Subject: Re: [Leica] M-lenses on M8
>
>
>>
>> On Dec 9, 2008, at 9:43 AM, Sonny Carter wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 8:45 AM, Steve Barbour <kididdoc@cox.net>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> and I know you are a DR guy...
>>>>
>>>> I did as Peter did...the DR on the M8, nice....
>>>
>>>
>>> Mine is up there too, getting surgery
>>
>> you'll like it Sonny, call it a DiRcumcision...
>>
>> a bit drastic at its age, but worth it.
>>
>> The other way to go is to remove the DR lens cassette, screw it  
>> into a
>> matched Summicron Rigid body/M adapter,
>>
>>
>> Steve
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Sonny
>>> http://www.sonc.com
>>> http://sonc.stumbleupon.com/
>>> Natchitoches, Louisiana
>>> USA
>>>
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In reply to: Message from pklein at threshinc.com (Peter Klein) ([Leica] M-lenses on M8)
Message from kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour) ([Leica] M-lenses on M8)
Message from sonc.hegr at gmail.com (Sonny Carter) ([Leica] M-lenses on M8)
Message from kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour) ([Leica] M-lenses on M8)
Message from sethrosner at nycap.rr.com (Seth Rosner) ([Leica] M-lenses on M8)