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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!
 
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.
 
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...s_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.
 
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