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Subject: [OM] Re: "(...) the fastest macro lenses for 35mm full-frame photography today (...)" (RANT)
From: Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 13:18:31 -0700
ScottGee1 wrote:
> Sure, if you're willing to have it custom made!
>
> That's a very unusual, short-lived mount.  Perhaps you could find a
> M42 adapter for it?  Then get an M42 adapter for the camera.
>   
Register distance will be too short for an M42 adapter without extra lens.
> Of course the offset is likely to be, well, off.
>
> Others here may have better suggestions.
>   
Yup, stay away from them. They are of no use to anyone except a 
collector of all things Contax 
<http://www.camerapedia.org/wiki?title=Contaflex_%28SLR%29&printable=yes>.

Register distance is likely enough longer than 4/3 for an adapter to be 
possible, but nobody will make a commercial one.

Moose

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