Chris: I may have the very animal you desire. I just purchased an OM1 MD.
I'm not sure what hot shoe it is. Perhaps you can tell me if I send you a
picture. I have no intention of using the OM1 with flash. It's strictly a
backup to my 4Ti. Your most welcome to it for the cost of shipping.
RonS
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> [mailto:owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Christopher Biggs
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> Subject: Re: [OM] <ot>tmount-like adapter on lens?
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> Acer V <siddim01@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> moved upon the face of the 'Net
> and spake thusly:
>
> > >>>Your mystery thread is almost certainly the 39mm Leica Screw mount.
> > Keep an eye out for a Leica 1 at your next garage sale and you'll have
> > a nice body for it. :-)<<<
> >
> > Cool! Majorly cool! Will it couple with the rangefinder mechanism
> > somehow? (else there is no way to confirm focus).
>
> I was kidding about that. If the lens is designed for a reflex
> camera, you'd need an extension tube to use it on a rangefinder
> body, and then you'd have no way to focus it.
>
> Actually, some of the way long lenses for the Leica rangefinders
> worked that way---there was a reflex mirror and pentaprism that
> mounted on the rangefinder body, and then a 400mm lens mounted on
> that. Scary stuff.
>
> Anyone know what SLR cameras used 39mm?
> (Hmmn, wonder if I can find the answer myself?)
>
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> Ah, there we go. Some Zenit SLRs.
>
> BTW, The commonly called "Pentax" M42 screw mount was actually
> developed by Carl Zeiss in 1939. Still, even I call it "pentax screw"
> most of the time (and M42 otherwise).
>
> cjb.
>
> ObOly: if anyone has the power to stop me spending $50 on a new Shoe 1,
> please speak now. (i.e. anyone got a usedie for sale?)
>
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