Re: Minolta Thoughts..

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Chris Loffredo wrote:
Buy a used Leica M / M39 compatible body and some used
Cosina/Voigtländer super-wides and you can have LOTS of fun, but - oh
no! - you'd have to use film and they aren't branded Canon...

A friend of mine has a Lecia M3 which I have used on occasion. What
would be the sharpest lens I could find (reasonably priced, used) that
would fit the M3?
He has a Summicron 50mm f/2 (screw on, I think).

I don't think Leica made an M3 with a screw on lens mount. All the M
series have a bayonet type mount.

All Leica Ms take M39 screw mount lenses with the appropriate adapter,
sold
by Leica for the purpose and attaching to the lens so precisely that if
you
don't know that it's a screw mount lens you probably wouldn't guess by
examining it.

Oh.....I wonder if the old collapsible lenses will fit on the M series
too?

Sure, with the exception of the M5 and the CL which put the meter on an arm
in front of the shutter--the arm will interfere with the collapsible lenses
in the collapsed position.

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