Ambro51
Collector/Photographer
The Perfex rangefinder is a fairly well made, simple, inexpensive American made rangefinder camera built from 19:9 to 1950. The lenses available were “OK”, but after playing around with a ground glass, I discovered that the Nikon focal mount distance was Very similar. So......out came an old Nikkor HC Auto 50mm F2. A “Great” lens in all respects. It ‘fit’, sort of, well enough I could attach it with wraps of copper wire and several winds of black electrical tape. Final attachment, if this all works good, will be a sleeve made with the 38mm thread. I will work. •••••. After looking at the anemic images thrown by the standard Graf 3.5, the HC is dynamically awesome!retinax
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So it's rangefinder coupled? There's a helical on the body?
Ambro51
Collector/Photographer
No. To get focus, the Perfex body focus is all the way out at 3 feet. The Nikon lens focuses itself. I’m good at estimating distances so scale focus and depth of field work OK. Most likely a Nikon F adapter of some type could attach to the mount. Shooting it today.