Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/08/27

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Subject: [Leica] Lei-ko R lens to S body adapter ring
From: wildlightphoto at earthlink.net (Doug Herr)
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 09:40:00 -0700 (GMT-07:00)

Charlie Chan wrote:

>>>
This is for those, who would love to use some of their R lenses on a new S 
(006) or S2 body. I have just bought an adapter ring from Michael Leibfritz 
in Germany

www.lei-ko.de

It cost 500 euros including overnight european courier delivery. It is 
beautifully made. You can only use it for lenses of 180 or longer.  The new 
S lenses top out at 180 focal length. The rumoured 350 S lens may well not 
happen. Focus is manual of course with stop down metering. The max focus 
distance is limited, unless you send the lenses to Leica for adjustment.

?

280/4 APO - max focus distance at infinity point on lens barrel is about 
20m, but my copy goes beyond infinity to the ?feet / m? mark on the barrel 
(which is 40m + in real life).
<<<

There was some variation in 280mm f/4 APO production.  My original copy 
(originally 3rd-cam, now getting its biennial diaphragm de-gumming) is like 
Charlie's lens.  My newer copy (ROM) focuses only slightly past infinity and 
even has a different focussing pitch.  Sounds like the older version is a 
better fit for the S2 + lei-ko adapter.


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




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