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Dangerous_Dave
09-09-2009, 21:08
Hi folks, sorry I've not posted for a while (we just had our second kid and have been up to our eyeballs in nappies and bottles) but I've recently bought a Leitz Telyt apo 180/f3.4 and am banging my head off a brick wall trying to figure out how to use it with my astronomical CCD camera, which is T2 threaded. I am not after a T-ring but the reverse of this - ie T2:Leica adaptor. I've got a T2:M42 adaptor so at a pinch an M42:Leica adaptor would work but I can't seem to put my hands on one of those either! I don't need light metering or autofocus, just a very basic, manual adaptor.

Does anyone know where I can get hold of anything like this?

many thanks in anticpation

PS it's one tasty lens!
who?
10-09-2009, 08:14
I presume this is the older screw thread leica? M39?

If you can't find one cheap on ebay then try manualfocus.org or forum.mflenses.com for pointers.
Dangerous_Dave
10-09-2009, 22:01
I presume this is the older screw thread leica? M39?

If you can't find one cheap on ebay then try manualfocus.org or forum.mflenses.com for pointers.

Sadly not, it's bayonet fit.:(

Thanks for the links, I will give those a try.
jimlizard
10-09-2009, 22:35
The lens you have is from the Leica R system.
I found this adaptor on ebay which is very rare but, what you need, is exactly the opposite and I think it doesn't exist.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Leica-T2-lens-Mount-for-R-Bayonet-Bodies-Boxed_W0QQitemZ170372132856QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_P hotography_Film_Cameras_ET?hash=item27aaf86ff8&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14

Even going with the Leica-R - M42 - T2 way, I think you'll find nothing. I'm a member of those mf lenses foruns and I never heard of it.

I think it's physically possible to mount a Leica R lens in a M42 camera (which is basically what you have now), however people don't waste time doing them, since Leica R cameras aren't that expensive and much better than M42 models. You also have excellent Canon bodies to use them so, it doesn't make sense to use a M42 body.

A lot of people without money for Leica R lenses would love to use the opposite or, in other words, M42 lenses in Leica R bodies, however it's not possible, due to flange-to-film distance, which is higher on Leica lenses.