On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, Cotty wrote: > On 19/1/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] disgorged: > >I'd really like a pentax K to Leica screw 39 adapter so I could use a > >couple of my M/K lenses on my V*********er Bessas, possible do you think? > > Entirely possible with a home-brew non-optical adapter. The distance > between the flange of a lens (the part that rests against the camera body > when it is on the camera) and the film plane is known as the 'register'. > On K mount, that distance is 45.46mm. On Leica screw it is 28.8mm. You > would need an extention to the camera body on your Bessa of 16.66mm to > mount the K mount lens further away from the body. You could easily build > an adapter into this distance. I would suggest obtaining the back ends of > a pair of lenses, a K mount and a Leica screw, and fabricating the > appropriate metal in between the two, machining it until the register is > correct.
Wouldn't you need the body-mount side for the K-mount lens? This could be aquired from a K-mount teleconvertor or a K-mount body, but not a K-mount lens. alex
