MS Optical 35/3.5 Perar Triplet For M4/3?

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jonmanjiro has been discussing, and is now selling, a very interesting hand-assembled, limited-production MS Optical 35/3.5 Perar Triplet lens in Leica M-mount. Here's the thread; you'll find the For Sale ad in the classifieds:

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=94672

MS Optical is Miyazaki-san in Chiba, Japan. He designs and hand-assembles lenses, and does lensmount conversions as well. The 35/3.5 Perar has a limited production of about 185 units.

I'm tugging coats here because it looks like a great walkaround short tele lens for m4/3. Very small, collapsible, with a focusing lever that should make focusing quicker/easier than, say, an LTM 35/3.5 Summaron, modern glass and coatings, and a cool/quirky backstory. Looks like it would make a great pocketable combo with a GF1 or EPx.

It's not in my budget at the moment, but it looks like at least a couple of RFFers have ordered one, and I figured not everyone here is haunting the Leica M forum.

I have no financial interest in the product or sellers, just have a lust for oddball optics and an unhealthy obsession with things Leica- and Japan-related.

Miyazaki-san also has an interesting 50/1.3.....
 
Thought It Might Be Of Interest To M4/3ers

Thought It Might Be Of Interest To M4/3ers

Hi Raid, I wasn't so much trying to start a new thread as trying to draw attention to the existence of this lens and the original thread, since the lens seems like such a good fit for m4/3 use.

Nobody on the thread over at Leica M had mentioned m4/3 (or NEX) use, and nobody here had mentioned the lens at all. It must be the nakoudo (match-maker) instinct in me....

I'm never sure about protocol for things like this. Do the folks cruising Leica M want to read m4/3-related posts about this lens in the Leica M forum? If I didn't bring up the topic here, how many regular M4/3 forum readers would have missed it? How many m4/3ers regularly check out the Leica M forum? Etc, etc, etc....

raid said:
Why start a new thread here on the lens?
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what would be even cooler, is a native mount 4/3 and/or nex version, eliminating the thick adapter needed.

Perhaps just make a NEX version, and someone may make a 4/3 to NEX adapter, if they don't already ...
 
A Perar in m4/3 mount would be cool, although an M>4/3 adapter is only about 7mm thick, so it's not that bad.

The Sony NEX flange back distance of 18mm is 2mm shallower than m4/3 (20mm), so you'd need an m4/3 lens > NEX body adapter. The other way 'round won't work without negative magnification.

I hadn't realized NEX was shallower than m4/3---no wonder that body is so thin!

The good news is you could use your C/V 25/0.95 m4/3 lens on NEX as soon as somebody busts out an adapter. There will probably be vignetting, though---I wonder how much...

ampguy said:
what would be even cooler, is a native mount 4/3 and/or nex version, eliminating the thick adapter needed.

Perhaps just make a NEX version, and someone may make a 4/3 to NEX adapter, if they don't already ...
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ehh, i don't think so

ehh, i don't think so

that's like saying you can use 4/3 lens on aps-c dslr's - not likely with good results ... take a look at the sensor size differences ... wrt image circle size

PCB_RF said:
A Perar in m4/3 mount would be cool, although an M>4/3 adapter is only about 7mm thick, so it's not that bad.

The Sony NEX flange back distance of 18mm is 2mm shallower than m4/3 (20mm), so you'd need an m4/3 lens > NEX body adapter. The other way 'round won't work without negative magnification.

I hadn't realized NEX was shallower than m4/3---no wonder that body is so thin!

The good news is you could use your C/V 25/0.95 m4/3 lens on NEX as soon as somebody busts out an adapter. There will probably be vignetting, though---I wonder how much...
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Yes, that's why I said there'd probably be vignetting. But folks are paying over US$1k for decades-old Angenieux 25/0.95 c-mount lenses that vignette heavily on m4/3, so maybe modern vignetting will look cool, too.

Note that I'm mostly joking here....
 
MS Optical Super Triplet Perar 3.5/35

MS Optical Super Triplet Perar 3.5/35

Saw this lens posted on Japan Exposures website, it's a newly designed Cooke triplet designed for M-mount, limited edition. Claims to be made to extremely high standards, at a moderate price (19,900 yen). The lens features tantalum glass elements and a round (Edmunds), rather than polygonal, aperture.

If you take a look at the lens attached to an M8 body, I immediately wonder why we can't have such diminutive yet quality manual lenses for u4/3. Since the same company (MS Optical) also makes u4/3 adapters, I wonder if it isn't just a matter of time before we see something like this released directly for our format.

~Joe

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Price Is 50K Yen, Not 20K Yen

Price Is 50K Yen, Not 20K Yen

I'm not sure if you had a typo or read wrong, but the price of the lens is 49,000 yen ($500+), not 19,000 yen ($200+). Just trying to make sure nobody's heart gets beating too quickly.

There's a long thread about this lens on the Leica M forum, and I started a mini-thread here.

Very cool lens...

JoeV said:
Claims to be made to extremely high standards, at a moderate price (19,900 yen).
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I have one and love it.
The quality is as good as any, but more importantly it turned my M8 into a pocketable camera thus opening up more photo opportinities to me and saving me from the clutches of the X100. 😉
 
Bobfrance said:
I have one and love it.
The quality is as good as any, but more importantly it turned my M8 into a pocketable camera thus opening up more photo opportinities to me and saving me from the clutches of the X100. 😉
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Yes, that is why I like it too... but I'd still have to have a X100! 😱
 
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