Question Regarding Leica R to L adapter

[Leicaiste]

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On 1/21/2019 at 4:11 AM, caissa said:

I actually also use the R lenses this way, with an added R to M adapter. This stack works nicely, but does not give you the extra features for ROM lenses, but I wouldn’t mind.

Staking Leica’s adapters may induces some vignetting with some long lenses. 

[caissa]

Why not make it really clear ? With the Telyts there can be some vignetting because of the narrow mount of the M to SL adapter. (Because of the M-mount involved.) But this user has Telyts with M-mount, as was mentioned in the question, so it cannot be avoided, even if she bought an R to SL adapter. 👍

So your remark is on one side fully correct, but at the same time no help in this case, unfortunately. 

[gautier]

On 1/6/2019 at 8:17 AM, gautier said:

[...] the Apo-Telyt modules are not recognised, I have to chose the lens using the menu. Of course, these lenses have ROM (and this ROM works on a R9/DMR). I have already contact Leica for this limitation, the bug is still present 😠

 

For this topic, the Leica Customers Service has given me this answer: 

[...] it looks that the coding on your module-system doesn’t work properly. Maybe the ledge is dirty or one or two electronic parts are malfunctioning or compressed, but this is very hard to judge from here. Unfortunately we are not able to check this or repair the focus-modules here in our workshop, as our testing-devices are no longer available. Please clean the ledges with pure alcohol prior to other steps or ask my colleagues [...] for assistance. If the ledges will be malfunctioning we are not able to repair and you have to live with the manual detection. Sorry for that. Hoping this short information will be helpful. 

So, I took the time to clean closely all the contacts of my Apo-Telyt-Modul-R set (the ones of the 3 focus modules + the ones of the 2 heads). There is no change in the behaviour. I’m still obliged to chose manually the right lens in the menu. Well, it’s not a big issue. But it’s strange to have this on the SL while my old Digital-Modul-R displays always the right focal length. All my other R lenses with ROM are automatically recognised by the SL.

 

I'll be curious to know if some users with the same equipment (a Leica SL + the official adapter + at least one of these 6 combinations) have an automatic display of the lens.

 

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