If so, will it correctly engage the rangefinder distancing etc...thanks,

-- sparkie (sparkie@mailcity.com), January 16, 2002

Answers

Try this link http://www.novoflex.com/english/html/products.htm

-- H. Gurung (hgurung@libertysurf.fr), January 16, 2002.

The rangefinder will not work. R lenses don't have the cam or any other means of providing distance info to the adapter.

-- Douglas Herr (telyt@earthlink.net), January 16, 2002.

Leica offered an adaptor as well. The number was 22228 and it originally was to mount R lenses on one of the Leicina movie cameras (which took M mount lenses). It is best only to mount wide angle lenses as they are the easiest to guestimate the focus with.

-- John Collier (jbcollier@powersurfr.com), January 16, 2002.

Don't use the Leica adapter #22228 on a M6 (or M6TTL) made after 1985-86. There is now a black plate on the top of the chamber which will be damaged by the bayonet of the adapter. Or ask a technician to cut a piece of the adapter's bayonet.

The 22228 was made originally for the Leicina, not for the Leica-M, that's why the bayonet is not exactly the same.

-- Lucien (lucien_vd@yahoo.fr), January 16, 2002.

In Germany "Novoflex" (Memmingen) offers an adapter for R-lenes to be used on Leica M. I used it with a Super-Angulon-R 4/21 mm and the seprate viewfinder (21mm) with success. Regards H.Frisch

-- Hans Frisch (hans.frisch@gmx.de), January 20, 2002.