Onset of Domestic Abuse due to GAS attack?

For years I was a simple SLR amateur photographer - content with my good old reliable Nikkormat FT-2. We were a faithful couple.

A few years ago, enamored of all things technological, I had a brief affair with a Canon G-1 digital P&S.

This led to a "thing" with a Nikon D-70 DSLR - but that fling also left me filled with guilt. The faithful FT-2 cried out in the emotional pain of my neglect for film.

I thought that purchasing a F5 and F100 on eBay would ease the guilt I felt. And then, needing to also fill several residential "love nests" I began to accumulate a F3, an EL, another F-100 plus a couple of more Nikkormats and, oh yes, a venerable F1. Plus numerous appropriate "glass" etc.

Nonetheless, still, I felt a deep "emptiness", as if I was afloat with GAS.

And then, accursed as I am, I discovered RFF and it re-kindled a long ago but buried interest in the "ancient mode" of RF photography. At first I assuaged this growing and gnawing yearning with a few books on the topic (a desparate attempt to use pornography to offset physical need). But such a temporary diversion only led to the inevitable need to engage in true, not just ersatz, lust.

So, being a good Nikonian, I acquired a S2 that came with both 5.0cm and 1.35cm lenses. Not wanting to be ill-equipped for such a "liaison", I quiclkly secured a Bessa R2S as a "spare" and have now accumulated a 28mm CV, and 3.5 Nikkor and a 85mm CV plus various viewfinders, shoe-mount meters etc.

And now I have discovered this:

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/cont...goryNavigation

Is it true that this little honey would allow me to use my Nikkor and compatible CV lenses on a Leica or Lieca-compatible camera body?

Do you know for sure that with this little "love aid" attached to a simple Bessa R2 or R3 I could now in the sweet arms of Leica? And soon thereafter, begin enjoying the charms of her many lenses (not to mention the sweet dalliances with Zeiss etc.)?

I think I am correct that this would be the love potion to a whole new affair - can you tell me otherwise? Please make it so.

Elsewise - I am detecting an extreme case of GAS to which my real life better half might react with extreme prejudice to my continued existence!

Help!

[Trius]

George: I have no clue, but I am really, really fascinated by that 1.35cm Nikkor...

Earl

Originally Posted by Trius

George: I have no clue, but I am really, really fascinated by that 1.35cm Nikkor...

Earl

Earl,

Truth be told (and it the past I would have to kill you after telling you) the 1.35cm was a very early Nikkor fish-eye prototype designed for use by the Nepalese Navy submarines.

Only one still exists - and I have it!

Actually, as you correctly figured, it's a 13.5 cm.

Which brings to mind this thought. Does anyone know why the photo industry "switched" from cm to mm in the late 1950's? It's all metric so why did they bother?

George

[SolaresLarrave]

I find the notion of Nepalese submarines as fascinating as that of the Bolivian merchant navy.

[Will]

Hello George,

It will turn your M into a Bessa L...

The rangefinder will not be coupled, and you have to scale foucs.

Cheers





Will

[Brian Sweeney]

> George: I have no clue, but I am really, really fascinated by that 1.35cm Nikkor...

Cine-Nikkor Revere 13mm F1.9.


And the adapter looks like it is for F-mount lenses for the M. There are adapters to use Nikon S-Mount lenses on the M, but they are expensive. I found my 5cm f1.4, 8.5cm F2, 10.5cm F2.5, and 13.5cm F3.5 in LTM mount ALL FOUR Lenses for less than the cost of the adapter.

[peter_n]

I got a Nikon to Leica M converter from Cameraquest for a Nikkor 28mm lens from my F3. It was actually the first lens I mounted on my first Leica body. Now I have a Konica 28mm lens that focuses on the M. Scale focusing is fun but you are limited to wide focal lengths (the wider the better) with the technique.

Thanks Brian and Peter. You have clarified such that my GAS pains are dissapating - for now. Now if there is a way to mount Nikon S lenses on a Leica M-body I could get back into trouble real quick!