Dear K.....
Thanks a lot for your reply,,...... really apprecitae it........
Does Hama make them ?
Whats an M42 mount ? Is is screw mount ?
Very inreseting the guy who facbricated his own mount...... I can't read
Japanese........any other sources of info ?
Peace
TM
>> Anyone knows anyone who can custom make an OM body to Leica R lens
>> adaptor ?
>>
>> Or is there a ready made one available in the market ?
>
>I took a look in a book titled like "Lens adapters guide" for
>Leica-lens-to-OM-body adapters but found only an M42 mount adapter.
>It seems R-mount-to-OM-body adapters are not available yet, in Japan
>at least. I don't know a lot about discontinued adapters, but I hear
>that adapters for OM bodies often need a built-in correction lens
>because OM bodies have a longer flangeback (correct term? the
>distance from the mount to the focal plane). The correction lens
>doesn't deteriorate the quality of the mounted lens, but maybe the
>necessity of this correction lens is the reason why we don't have
>enough lens adapters for OM. Mounting OM-Zuikos on other bodies
>should be much easier.
>
>I also know a guy who made an "OMLEICA" from an R Summicron 50/2 and
>an Olympus auto extension tube, but he modified the R mount with
>files, drills and a grindstone. He shows the procedure at his site,
>but unfortunately in Japanese only.
>
>http://www.omfan.com/factory/omleica.html
>
>Kazuya Matsumoto
>
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