mileri Posted February 5, 2004 Share Posted February 5, 2004 I know this has been discussed more than once, but the following sounds new to me. There's a 90mm Minolta M-mount lens on sale on e*ay (Germany), the item description (in German) says that the lens can be mounted on Bessa Cameras. I have contacted the seller and, to cut a long story short, he says that this lens (and M mount lenses in general) can be used any Bessa body, including the 39x1 "L" and "R", via a "new" adapter, which is available in Germany at about 79 eur. I asked him more details about the "new" adapter, I am waiting to know. Any thought? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patrick_jelliffe Posted February 5, 2004 Share Posted February 5, 2004 Please stop the madness. The only "adapter" that will allow proper focusing of M lenses on LTM bodies is called a milling machine ;^). Don't fall for the seller's BS. Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luisarguelles Posted February 5, 2004 Share Posted February 5, 2004 Emanuele, Patrick is right. Another very well known adapter are CNC machines that models steel and iron like a knife models butter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skip_williams Posted February 5, 2004 Share Posted February 5, 2004 I guess that it would be possible to create an M-to-LTM adapter by including a weak lens in an adapter. But I wouldn't want to use it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roger_michel Posted February 5, 2004 Share Posted February 5, 2004 guys, come on!! you know full well that leica makes a bayonet mount for attaching M lenses to any leica screw-mount camera. leica part #14404. some people say it will also work with a canon 10D, but i have yet to try that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mileri Posted February 5, 2004 Author Share Posted February 5, 2004 The seller has given no answer to my question about the adapter and its availabilty, I believe he's talking BS.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lacey_smith4 Posted February 5, 2004 Share Posted February 5, 2004 The Bessa bodies have a fairly easy to exhange lens mount on the front (or so I'm told, and was discussed when the Bessa first came out). I do not know if they mean a camera-techie replacement or amateur, but that was the strategy that allows the cosina bodies to so rapidly be made Leica screw, then Nikon/Contax, then M. I know the R2 has other changes, but the machining of the original front plates allowed Cosina, at least, to do some quick change-outs. So, maybe this was what was discussed. Putting a Leica M lens on a Leica screw body is crazy, but not on a "converted" Bessa -- if that is what they are talking about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve_chan5 Posted February 5, 2004 Share Posted February 5, 2004 Out of idle curiousity, I once sent an email to SK Grimes about the possibility of putting an M mount on my (now departed) Canon P. They said it would be $300 - $600. I can't see how an adapter without a lens could allow the an M-mount to fit a LTM, and once you put that lens in there, you've compromised the quality of that lens you paid so dearly for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marc_falcone Posted July 26, 2004 Share Posted July 26, 2004 The difference of focusing distance between LTM and M is only 1mm. I am interested also to put M lenses on my Canon 7s (LTM mount). The body mount is fixed by only four screws, is up of the body by some distance, and I am wandering if it is possible to remove it and fix a bayonet M mount instead (I have now no money for a M6 or MP body). Is it possible to do this adaptation? Marc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
al_kaplan1 Posted July 26, 2004 Share Posted July 26, 2004 It would probably be cheaper to buy a new MP body. It's not just a matter of screwing on another lens flange. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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