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JonPB wrote:
Freaklikeme, I am grateful for your service as an early adopter. Any further comments you might have will be read with interest, by me and perhaps many other lurkers. 
If the infinity adjustment needed to be changed for different settings on your vario, does it also need to be changed depending on whether you mount your 35 or 50? If you adjust for infinity for the most difficult lens, meaning that the others will focus past infinity, how much close focus do you lose?
I'm perplexed. Metabones told me that there is 11mm of room between the Leica-R mount and the Speed Booster glass. My Elmarit 35--which has a serial number about 200 higher than yours, although the fin appears to be metal--measures 10.3mm from the protruding fin to the lens mount. Are you using the R Speed Booster, or another mount with an adapter to mount R lenses? Or is there really 11mm there--but which, as I think you said in another post, only allows for focus to about 10m?
[backstory]
That Elmarit 35 is actually what drove me down this crazy path, from using it on a DSLR to trying film cameras and eventually selling my entire grew-up-with-Pentax system--and buying into Leica R. My kit is now the next-to-faultless Elmarit 35, the schizophrenically magical yet sometimes ordinary Summicron 50, the flirtatious and fun 21-35 that might be replaced by a more serious commitment to a 19, and the delightfully stoic R7.
I'm trying to decide whether to buy a camera and Speed Booster to serve as an "available darkness" R-mount camera for my existing kit. I want it, I just don't quite believe it yet. Such a purchase only makes sense if it works interchangeably with the rest of what I've got, but it entails buying two different things that work together with a third variable in an innovative/unexplored manner, so I definitely have cold feet and enjoy learning from other people's experiences.
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Hey, Jon. Sorry it took me so long to respond, but the Elmarit 35 is my only non-Alpha converted R lens, so I needed time to switch over one of the others and test. I used the Cron 90, and yes, infinity needed to be readjusted. The difference between 35 and 50 probably isn't as great, but it will still take an adjustment. As for the fin, it hit the glass in the SB just before infinity. Post infinity adjustment, it may not have hit the glass at all, but it was tough to adjust for it when I couldn't physically set the lens to infinity. I also didn't set it for true infinity, but rather the hyperfocal distance for f/5.6, so yes, the lens can focus closer than it's .3m MFD. The closest I can get is with the subject approximately seven inches from the end of the lens. I thought the fin was metal too, until I shaved into it without any sparks or grinding noise or effort, really.
I was only looking for a single lens solution because I was tired of trying to use 24mm lenses as a replacement for an all-around 35mm performer. I greatly prefer the compromises of the SB over using wider lenses, but the Elmarit will be the sole companion for the SB. As good as the SB is, it's no replacement for using Rs on a full-frame like your R7 or my a99.
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