piers_hemy1

<p>Look here for instructions courtesy of Marriott camera dealers in UK:<br>

http://tinyurl.com/3uge3pr</p>

<p>Mike Butkus lists Pentina on his mammoth website, but hasn't published the manual - and it looks like he only has a link to the Marriott material</p>

<p>If I remember correctly you need to set the rotary control around the winder's shutter release to the intervalometer setting (the one that is NOT marked S for single or C for continuous) and then set the slider on the back rear of the winder to your desired interval. The camera will then take 1 photo every x seconds after you press the winder's shutter release. I think. But it was twenty years ago.</p>

<p>It has taken me (and my dealer) quite some time to work out what Novoflex are doing, but finally I can be clear. <br>

Novoflex DO NOT make any Leica 39mm thread adaptors to allow us of "foreign" mount lenses on LTM cameras with focus to infinity (or focus at all in some cases). But they make bellows adaptors which have "foreign" bayonet flanges and 39mm threads which allow you to fit the lenses to LTM cameras - sadly, they don't work as we all expected. As far as I can tell these mounts are all prefixed LEI - thus LEICAN is for Canon FD, LEIOM is for Olympus OM, and LEIM is for Leica M. You can find these LEI* adaptors listed on the Novoflex website along with their BALPRO bellows under the heading "Macro accessories".<br>

Novoflex DO make Leica M adaptors to allow use of "foreign" mount lenses on Leica M bayonet mount cameras with focus to infinity. These adaptors are prefixed LEM and are listed on the Novoflex website under the heading "Adaptors", or you can download a full listing as a pdf from the same website http://www.novoflex.com/de/info/download/+/file/dabla_adapter_neu_2009_e-web.pdf/ .<br>

In the case of the LEIOM (macro) adapter, it is ~6mm too thin to allow proper focusing om a LTM body. I therefore have a suitable short LTM extension tube on order!</p>

<p>If we are to lapse into blasphemy, please also consider the Zenitar 16mm, which *may* be available in OM mount, and the Samyang/Phoenix 18-28mm zoom, which is sometimes seen in other guises such as Exakta Varioplan (yes, in OM mount, as well as several others, but almost certainly not in Exakta mount).<br>

I only have experience with the zoom, which was cheap, and good value for the money. But not a patch on the Tamron 17mm, still less the Zuiko 18mm. Do not underestimate the size of the Tamron compared to the Zuiko (even with the "hood" on the Zuiko).</p>