Canon LTM Canon 1.8/85 in Leica-M

Canon M39 M39 screw mount bodies/lenses
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Sonnar

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There was an auction this weekend for this quite rare and good reputated lens.
http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=3858320068&
I think 200 EUR was a good price. I still have one in M39 so it was beyond my limit.

I was astonished about this modification. The seller told me he wasn't able to test the rangefinder coupling with a Leica-M, I stil have no Leica-M or Bessa-R2/3 (so this was another reason for my low ambition)
I supposed this as an private modification (although there are simpler ways to do this, like keeping the screwmount and put on a Voigtlander M-adaptor!)
Or do anybody know Canon had ever produced lenses with Leica-M-bajonett on a regular basis..? AFAIK in the 1960's this would cause patent violation..!

cheers, Frank
 
:eek:

I knew of some 90 M Canada Summicrons turned to screw mount, but never heard of the opposite, and even less in Canon.

There was somewhat of an industry however to turn the 0.95 to M mount, so this one may come from the same philosophy or maybe the screw mount got damaged and this was the only way to save this excellent lens ? :confused:

Another ? around classic camera history.
 
Unless the lens was originally FL mount, why would anyone modify it? It is too easy to screw on the adapter and go with it. If the threads were damaged, putting one on and leaving it would make sense: that is what I did with the $125 Nikkor 10.5cm F2.5 in LTM. Straightened out the threads well enough to work with an M adapter.
 
Hi Brian: I agree, but the frontring says "Canon lens" not "FL lens"... the back view picture of this lens I've got from the seller showed a RF-cam exactly like this one of my M39-lens. The small chrome ring was also the same. And no "open-closed"-aperture-ring like the FL-lenses have...
Suggest some rich Leica-owner in the 60's who knew the Canon was a razor sharp lens wasn't happy with a "primitive" adaptor solution and made a fixed one.. amazing... but if it works, lucky guy who bought it for ~265 USD. My was 350, and this wasn't high for a 1.8/85..!
A Summicron 2/90 costs much more and (except the current APO-S.) I doubt there are much better... :)

cheers, Frank
 
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