Roger,
Those rangefinders would not necessarily get excessively thick, as one could use an intermediary coupling.
Roger,
You misunderstood my reply. Fitting a special coupling ring to enable lenses made for that long film/flange distance would enable the use of them on a range finder, concerning this very issue, without making the rangefinder bulky as a whole.
We are speaking of a hybrid system, something being a compromise. Not neccessarily a good one.
Hmm. I'm away from my reference materials, but I believe that there were some lenses that could be used on Retina Reflexes and on some rigid body Retina rangefinders.
Hmm. I'm away from my reference materials, but I believe that there were some lenses that could be used on Retina Reflexes and on some rigid body Retina rangefinders.
I have a Retina IIIS in front of me. It does share lenses with the SLR versions. Not all of the lenses have the rangefinder cam, but they will all mount. The IIIS has all the elements in front of the shutter. The folding Retina rangefinders had elements on both sides.
Thanks Jon. I have to confess (if it were not already obvious) that my knowledge of late rigid-bodied Retinas is lamentably poor.
Possibly because they're so big...
Cheers,
R.
I only knew that that Retina was a leaf shutter coupled rangefinder camera constructed in a way that one could exchange lenses the same way one was used with focal plane rangefinders: leaving the shutter at the camera. Inter-changeability with a reflex model was new to me. Does the leaf shutter housing bridge exactly the film/flange distance to make the lens compatible with the reflex body? And there still would be the aperture issue.
Dear Phillippe,Dear Roger, Jon, AgX and Dan,
In the past, heard about an adaptor for the Leitz Super-Angulon-R to be mounted on the M-4, I will have to consult some old catalogues to be certain...
But, tell me, what 'Zwischenring' did Lietz NOT have?
Philippe
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