Hi Mike, thanks for the tip. Cheers Douglas On 13.02.2010 01:18, Mike B. wrote: > My brother - Alan - in Wichita - often finds the weird and wonderful of older > cameras and systems. He sells on eBay for a local store and for himself. A > lot of what he finds - goes to the Pacific Rim or Japan. > No - he is NOT a Leica enthusiast - however Wichita has folks from the world > there or ex-USAF types who bought gear in foreign lands. > > I do not know what Leica R mount or Vivitar goodies that he has found. > > He deals in Pentax and Canon - 25 years ago he had about 5 Minolta TLR's - > now all gone. > > You can e-mail him at; > > a.bruchas@xxxxxxx > > > > --- On Fri, 2/12/10, Douglas Sharp<douglas.sharp@xxxxxx> wrote: > > From: Douglas Sharp<douglas.sharp@xxxxxx> > Subject: [LRflex] Re: The > To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Date: Friday, February 12, 2010, 7:07 PM > > Hi Mike, > I have a T4 mount Vivitar 4.5/75-260 for Canon FD sitting next to my > keyboard, from what I've seen so far, a pretty good zoom despite its age. > > Finding other mounts (except, strangely enough, for Minolta) is almost > impossible - I've looked almost everywhere on the web. > > Apparently the T4 and TX mounts were an attempt by Soligor and Vivitar > that was later overshadowed by Tamron's Adaptall system. > > Also recently took possession of a Vivitar 4.5/400, it came with an > almost mint Canon A1 I bought very cheaply, which was followed very > rapidly by another A1 recently CLAed with replaced light seals and > mirror buffer in absolutely mint condition. > > Maybe Doug Herr knows something about the quality (or lack of it) of the > 400. > > Cheers > Douglas > > On 12.02.2010 19:56, Mike B. wrote: > >> Wow - that's a lot of lens makers for Leica. >> >> How many of you remember the first Tamron and Vivitar T-mounts with meter >> coupling that offered Leica R mounts? Vivitars were really T-4 mounts. >> >> Betcha in some old camera shop bin - you might find Leica mounts for a now >> 40 year old line of lenses! >> --- On Fri, 2/12/10, Douglas Sharp<douglas.sharp@xxxxxx> wrote: >> >> From: Douglas Sharp<douglas.sharp@xxxxxx> >> Subject: [LRflex] Re: The >> To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> Date: Friday, February 12, 2010, 9:27 AM >> >> I should have looked in my "Laney" >> 15mm - built by Zeiss >> 16mm - Minolta optics >> 3.4/21mm - Schneider >> 4/21mm - Schneider >> 24mm - Leitz/Minolta >> PC 28mm - Schneider >> PA 35mm - Schneider >> 500mm Mirror - Minolta >> Rapid focus lenses - Leitz/Novoflex >> >> 3.5-4.5/28-70 - Sigma >> 3.5/25-70 - Minolta >> 45-90 - Angenieux >> 75-200 - Minolta >> 80-200 - Kyocera >> >> My Laney is an old one (1992) - so later lenses aren't listed >> >> Amusing, we've all been using non-leica lenses for years :-) >> >> Cheers >> Douglas >> >> >> >> >> >> On 12.02.2010 13:25, Doug Herr wrote: >> >> >>> Douglas Sharp wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>> Zeiss is a new one to me - which lens was that? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> 15mm f/3.5 >>> >>> 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/ >> >> ------ >> 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/ > > ------ Unsubscribe or change to/from Digest Mode at: http://www.lrflex.furnfeather.net/ Archives are at: //www.freelists.org/archives/leicareflex/