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in Ukraine continue to produce camera bodies using a true Leica thread-mount. These give amateurs the rare chance of having a very professional camera by combining a used Leica lens with an M39 body at a price well below a real Leica combination. On the other hand, one has to be careful as there are
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had indicated that their forthcoming Contax rangefinder cameras would have interchangeable lenses. The LTM system was tested at the request of Leitz on lenses manufactured in small batches by Hugo Meyer in Germany and marketed with a run of Leitz cameras by A. O. Roth in London. The test marketing
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some issues with some bodies not using the same focusing system. Adaptors are available to use M39 lenses with modern digital cameras, such as the Canon EF-M, Sony E or Nikon Z mounts.
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single-lens-reflex (SLR) cameras, though with the longer optical registration of 45.2 mm, required to allow the mirror room to flip out of the focal path when a picture was taken.
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and Leitz was a major manufacturer of microscopes, so the tooling at the plant was already set up to produce the Whitworth thread form. The Soviets in the 1930s produced their early
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True Leica Thread-Mount (LTM) is 39 mm in diameter and has a thread of 26 turns-per-inch or threads-per-inch (tpi) (approximately 0.977 mm pitch) of
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to provide a system that would allow for the exchange of lenses on their new small film cameras (Leica Type 1 and Leica Type 2), as
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program was a success, so regular production with Leitz camera bodies and lenses was introduced on the
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Marc James Small. Non-Leitz Leica Thread-Mount Lenses: a 39mm Diversity. Rita Wittig, 1995.
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of 28.8 mm, though this is of little importance for lenses used on bellows enlargers.
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thread form. Whitworth threads were then the norm in microscope manufacture. The
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Until the 1950s the 39 mm mount was the norm for exchangeable lenses in
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cameras also used a different M39 × 24 tpi thread mount, called "J-mount".
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in Japan — many of whose recent products are marketed under the
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It is also the most common mount for 161:mounting system for attaching lenses to 32:This article includes a list of general 93:Leitz Summicron 50 mm in M39 lens mount 80: 7: 966: 936:Leica Historical Society of America 316:Leica vs. Soviet mounts & focus 200:in M39×1 (39 mm by 1 mm 38:it lacks sufficient corresponding 14: 186:Royal Microscopical Society (RMS) 965: 954: 953: 600: 23: 257:also accept 39 mm lenses. 16:Standard lens mount for cameras 1: 264:Detail of the mounting of a 520:M (Typ 240) / M-P (Typ 240) 194:microscope objective lenses 1015: 999:Leica thread-mount lenses 949: 598: 377: 86: 638:Leica R4 / R5 / R6 / R7 332:Standard: GOST 10332-72 324:Standard: GOST 10332-63 211:True LTM lenses have a 53:more precise citations. 268: 238:, and featured on the 188:thread, also known as 921:List of Leica cameras 545:M Monochrom (Typ 246) 263: 213:flange focal distance 175:Photographic enlarger 628:Leicaflex / SL / SL2 931:Leica Freedom Train 854:Elmar / Super Elmar 791:Leica Q / Leica Q-P 727:Leica CL (Typ 7323) 555:M10 / M10-P / M10-R 251:rangefinder cameras 83: 732:Leica SL (Typ 601) 611:Single-lens reflex 429:Leica 250 Reporter 387:Leica Microsystems 269: 144:Telemeter coupling 981: 980: 779:Leica X (Typ 113) 750: 749: 712:Leica T (Typ 701) 689: 688: 676:Leica S (Typ 007) 671:Leica S (Typ 006) 596: 595: 580:Four Thirds mount 502:M mount (digital) 148: 147: 107:External diameter 79: 78: 71: 1006: 969: 968: 957: 956: 926:Ernst Leitz GmbH 700: 616: 604: 402: 382:Leica Geosystems 364: 357: 350: 341: 330: 322: 91: 84: 74: 67: 63: 60: 54: 49:this article by 40:inline citations 27: 26: 19: 1014: 1013: 1009: 1008: 1007: 1005: 1004: 1003: 984: 983: 982: 977: 945: 909: 868: 817: 756:Digital compact 746: 685: 647: 605: 592: 574: 496: 433: 391: 373: 368: 328: 320: 312: 307: 290: 204:thread). 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Flange
lens mount
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Photographic enlarger
Whitworth
Royal Microscopical Society (RMS)
microscope objective lenses
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DIN
Canon
flange focal distance
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Leica Standard
Leica III
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