Thanks for your fast reply. My quest is for what make cameras might fill my needs. I do have or can find the adapters. I will look at the two brands you mentioned. Regards, Doug

Hello Members: Back in the mid 1960s, I was working in the Los Angeles area. I spent week ends scouring the local camera shops in the LA basin . That was a time when everyone was scrambling to replace their rangefinder cameras with SLRs. So being a new collector, I started buying trade in cameras and lenses from the German Leica system. At the end of the 1970s, I had one F series body and three M-series cameras. I also have at least one Leica lens from 21 mm super wide angle to the 400 mm telephoto lens. Also the Visoflex add on that permitted thru the lens photography. Also the Bellows system that allows macro photography.
With the advent of digital cameras and "point and shoot" cameras, I ceased to use this Leica equipment because of the expense of film and development. Leica introduced the M-10 camera, but is far beyond my budget as a hobbyist .
Now I am in search of a digital camera to which I can mount these vintage lenses. I want to set the camera in a manual mode and be able to set the shutter speed and the ISO. Then using a light meter, set my lenses the same way I would using in a film camera. I have tried using a "M series to Nikon" adapter to mount a M series lens to a Nikon J1 body. Because the cell is only 0.7 the size of a 35 mm frame, I get a much larger image than I would on a Leica body. So a 35 mm lens now performs like a 50 mm lens.
To my disappointment I have not found a way to set the shutter speed in the manual mode on the Nikon J1. I am considering another make of camera that (with the proper M series to ???? body) allow me to use my vintage Leica lens.
One might ask why would I want to use manual lenses on an automatic digital body ? I am from the old school and know that these German lenses can still capture some brilliant images as they did with film.
Any suggestions will be greatly welcomed. Sincerely, Doug