Experience with ltm to M adapters?

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Hi I am just eagerly awaiting a Bessa R2. All my lenses are ltm, so I'll need an adapter. As I live in Europe ordering adapters from Stepehen Gandy is an option I'll only take when nothinh else works out.
I've read that there are adapters that make it impossple to focus at infinity.
Others are said to jam either the bayonet or to transform a lens to M-mount forever. What are your experiences? Ordering VC adapetrs in Austria or Germany is not an option as the prices ar steep (Where even a Bessa R costs 569 €! Go figure)
On the other side the 9,99 LTm to M adapters on the bay - there's simply no information about them except that duh that they adapt (focussint to infinity? etc.)
Thanks in advance
Des/Vienna
 
I got two of them:
1. original Voigtlander
2. Marumi adapter

The first gives me a RF offset at infinite, the second seems to be OK.
(sorry for the short message, but I'm in a real hurry today)

Rob.
 
I have an R2 and wanted to use my FSU 50's and my CV 35 2.5 on it. I bought a couple of those really cheap adapters from Hong Kong. They didn't have any manufacturers marking.
They seem to work very well. The spec is that they must have a 1mm thick flange. I measured them and found them to be accurate. Also they bring the co-incident images in the RF to exactly the right point at infinity focus. As the cam on the lens does this, I am confident that the adapter thickness is right.

As they screw onto the lens, I can't imagine how one could get jammed onto the lens.
I am not concerned with the machined notches bringing up frame lines on my cam as the R2 doesn't do this, so is not important.
They are so cheap that trying one is easy?
Dave..
 
fidget said:
I have an R2 and wanted to use my FSU 50's and my CV 35 2.5 on it. I bought a couple of those really cheap adapters from Hong Kong. They didn't have any manufacturers marking.
They seem to work very well. The spec is that they must have a 1mm thick flange. I measured them and found them to be accurate. Also they bring the co-incident images in the RF to exactly the right point at infinity focus. As the cam on the lens does this, I am confident that the adapter thickness is right.

As they screw onto the lens, I can't imagine how one could get jammed onto the lens.
I am not concerned with the machined notches bringing up frame lines on my cam as the R2 doesn't do this, so is not important.
They are so cheap that trying one is easy?
Dave..
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Do you have a link to those adapters?
I am also in need of a few adapters, but I am also confused because some are cheap and some are not...

Thank you.
Hiromu
 
I had been wondering how to get an adapter for a month or so, when I walked in to a decent second-hand camera shop, on a visit to London, and they had a number of genuine Leica adapters hardly used. So I suggest visiting/phoning a few second-hand places. If the adapters have a problem then you can take/send them back.
 
I use my LTM-to-M adapters on an M6, but this information is still probably relevant.

I purchased a genuine Leica, used, for about $90. I also borrowed a fellow RFF members Voigtlander adapter. And I purchased 2 from China, for about $3 each plus $12 shipping. (Shipping from China takes about 2-3 weeks from the U.S.)

All of them work great. No problems with focusing or jamming.

I second Fidget's sentiment. When they're so cheap, you have very little to lose.
 
I agree buy the CV ones , theyre a lil bit more than the cheap deals but a much nicer adapter, i have a cheapie and i ened up buying a cv adapter instead .
 
mdspace said:
I recommend you the CV adapters, the quality is superior to the other ones.
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So it is! I have an original Leica LTM-to-M Adapter, a CV and one from China. The one from China NOW works fine, but i had to return it first because the lens once mounted was hard to loosen again. None of such problems occured with the others.
 
I don't know if Robert White will ship to you, but in Ireland he works out much cheaper than Stephen for the adaptors, simply due to the shipping.
 
i have a voigtlander one and a china ebay one, both for 50mm framelines

both are spot on focus-wise and are perfectly fine on my bessa r2a but on my m3 the china ebay one brings up to 135mm framelines.
 
I have a Leitz adapter for 50mm and Japanese ones bought from www.fedka.com for 28/90 and 35/135. All can take lenses with infinity locks: which, I understand, the newer CV ones cannot do. Fedka's cost only slightly less than the CV ones, I think $52 as against $55.
 
hiromu said:
Do you have a link to those adapters?
I am also in need of a few adapters, but I am also confused because some are cheap and some are not...

Thank you.
Hiromu
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The way that I thought about it was that if it comes from China or Hong Kong, they will all be the cheapest type, so I bought the cheapest deal including shipping.
They have been fine, but perhaps I was lucky. I would agree that the machining may not be as neat as the real thing.
The Ebay sale record is too old for these so can't recall who I bought them from.
 
I've used Leitz, Voigtlander and Marumi adaptors. All are good. The cheapest are Marumi from Japan from US$20-30.
 
I've got an unnamed adaptor that seems to work OK - certainly the RF lines up at infinity when the lens says infinity and pictures appear to be pretty much in focus. If the adaptor isn't right on a rf then you've really got no chance to focus reliably at all.

I've also got two slr nikon to eos adaptors which both allow infinity focus by virtue of being too thin. The result is that I can't scale focus and close focus distance is longer than it should be - drives me crackers

Mike
 
Thanks folks! Great input! When i look at the Austrian pricing of CV adapters I am still a bit overwhelmed. Got the taste of using an Rf with a bayonet mount so that I'll get three of them.
Have a nice week all!
 
Can someone please school me on LTM to M adapters in general? I might need some in the future and just started checking up... for example I see CV having 3 types - 35/135mm, 50/75mm and 28/90mm. From this I deduct that I should buy an adapter with a matching focal length for my lens (although I do not exactly understand the why such difference in mm coupled into each adapter).
But what about other focal length? Even CV has several wider lenses, I would assume they'd make an adapter for their own lenses? I was looking at 15mm Heliar being sold with M adapter, but it didn't specify what kind... is there some universal adapter? Better yet, what is the rule of thumb when selecting one for your lens/camera?

Sorry if I'm asking something obvious, I'm new to this.

edit: disregard the question, I saw the info I need pretty much right after I posted this. All explained, all good.
 
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