Is there an adapter which will allow the use of a Leica M lens mounted on a Leica Screwmount camera body?

-- Jerry Rogers (urolomaniac2000@yahoo.com), April 29, 2002

Answers

Nope.

-- Mike Dixon (mike@mikedixonphotography.com), April 29, 2002.

FYI: The previous thread that was a duplicate of this one was deleted, but it had one answer in it by Dave Jenkins who said, "No."

-- Tony Rowlett (rowlett@alaska.net), April 29, 2002.

Even if such an adapter existed (which it doesn't), the lens wouldn't focus properly. Remember that LTM (screwmount) lenses can be mounted on an M body with an adapter. That adapter has a standard thickness. The M lenses sit that thickness further from the film plane than LTM lenses. So unless you wrenched the mount off of an M lens and grafted an LTM mount on, the combo won't work. Incidently, many of the earliest M lenses were simply LTM lenses that had permanently mounted, factory LTM-to-M flanges on them.

Skip

-- Skip Williams (skipwilliams@pobox.com), April 29, 2002.

I think that the DOOBC might be what you are looking for. There is one for sale thehahns@cornhusker.net), May 02, 2002.

What I was trying to say was that the item is listed here: http://www.camera-collectors.com/ShopSite/leica.html

-- Chad Hahn (thehahns@cornhusker.net), May 02, 2002.