Truman, Truman? Are you there? Please say something... Thanks, Bill On Jan 20, 2011, at 11:50 AM, Truman Bryce wrote: > > > > > ________________________________ > From: William B. Abbott III <captbilly3@xxxxxxxxx> > To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Thu, January 20, 2011 11:26:05 AM > Subject: [LRflex] Re: Nikon Step Down Mechanism Ponderings > > On Jan 20, 2011, at 2:40 AM, Gary E wrote: > >> If you combine what Leitax already did and add an additional gizmo for auto >> aperture, it might be easier to start there. Since the Nikon body already >> can >> assume a manual Ais/Ai lens attached, your goal should be to make the Leica >> lens >> appear to be so ... > > That sounds like another, even simpler place to mate the "R front" to a "D700 > back," fool the latter into "thinking" the that the R lens is a manual N > lens. > Not having any aquaintance at all with Nikon equipment I have no idea what > may > be involved, but perhaps Leitax does know what is involved > > If the D700 had to be machined to make way for the adaptive R lens mechanism, > I > could contemplate a new retro-adapter that could be mounted on the D700 to > restore it to all-Nikon functionality if desired. > > Thanks, > > Bill > > ------ > 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/ ------ Unsubscribe or change to/from Digest Mode at: http://www.lrflex.furnfeather.net/ Archives are at: //www.freelists.org/archives/leicareflex/