Hi Doug and all other fonts of wisdom to all things Leica, I now have my gleaming R8 and have managed to stop drooling, it is superb, as new. Interesting question please... I have three old M42 Pentax Takumar lenses for my Spotmatic and they are all superb, plus a 500mm pre-set that was ground from original English milk bottles and has the resolution of a new year wish (!!!). There is a firm in China selling an M42 to Leica R adapator on eBay for $27, any reason why this won't work or concerns I should have? It would be wonderful to put these old Pentax optics to work again on my R8, manual operation is not an issue for me. I wish I could find an adaptor that went the other way and allowed the R lenses to go an M42 body but gather that is not possible. Warm regards to everyone. Reg Doug Herr wrote: > FS: (selling for a friend) Uniphot Tiltall tripod, good working condition, > moderate finish wear, legs are padded with pipe insulation. Legs can be > unscrewed to use as a monopod, handles can be stowed inside center column for > compact travel, center column may be reversed, retractable 'spike' feet. > US$65 plus shipping. > > FS: 35mm Elmarit-R, late version (E55), 3-cam with both caps, light finish > wear. US$350 plus shipping > > FS: 50mm Summilux-R, E55, was 3rd cam, converted to 3-cam last year by DAG. > Both caps. US$750 plus shipping. > > FS: 90mm Summicron-R, significant finish wear, clean glass, works great, was > 2-cam converted to 3-cam by E. Leitz NY in about 1980. Includes 54mm-to-55mm > filter step-up ring, Leica rear cap, generic front cap. US$475 plus shipping. > > FS: Fine prints - many of my photographs are available as fine prints on > premium RA4 chromogenic paper. See 'em here: > http://www.wildlightphoto.com/about > > Please respond off-list to wildlightphoto (at) earthlink (dot) net. I will > have sporadic computer access until Sunday afternoon so I might not be able > to respond quickly. > > Doug Herr > Birdman of Sacramento > http://www.wildlightphoto.com > > > ------ > Unsubscribe or change to/from Digest Mode at: > http://www.lrflex.furnfeather.net/ > Archives are at: > //www.freelists.org/archives/leicareflex/ > > > ------ Unsubscribe or change to/from Digest Mode at: http://www.lrflex.furnfeather.net/ Archives are at: //www.freelists.org/archives/leicareflex/