micro4/3 Leica M adapters

[Assaf]

Hi guys,
I'd like to buy such an adapter and I notices a big price differene between the Voigtlander ones, (179$) and no-brand inexpensive ones.
Does anyone have any experience with either of them?
Thanks
Assaf

 

[Vince Lupo]

The Metabones one is very good. I have one, and no problems at all.

 

[cliffpov]

Fotodiox makes excellent adapters mentioned as well as several others.

 

[Gabriel M.A.]

Hi guys,
I'd like to buy such an adapter and I notices a big price differene between the Voigtlander ones, (179$) and no-brand inexpensive ones.
Does anyone have any experience with either of them?

No, I don't. But I do have a Novoflex brand adapter. It cost me about 30 Euros cheaper, and I think it's far better built than the Voigtlaender I tried. At least it felt better when I tried them side by side.

 

[Lflex]

I have tried Voigtlander and own Rayqual and Panasonic Branded adapters. All focus beyond infinity which makes them useless for scalefocus. The build quality is very good though.

 

[HuubL]

I bought a Chinese one on eBay about a year ago. Seller yishumahk. Cheap and sturdy build. Functions perfectly. No problems with focussing beyond infinity.

 

[Jim-st]

I tried a Metabones first, and found it suffered from the "focus beyond infinity/ can't scale focus" issues. Then tried a Voigtlander one and it works perfectly.

There's something strange happening here, if different RFF'ers are getting such different results from the same manufacturers' stuff.

FWIW, all my lenses are LTM, mounted on the M43 adapters with either Leica or Voigtlander (I and II series) LTM>M adapters - see list below

Can anyone make sense of what's going on here??

 

[Assaf]

Thanks guys for all the responses, the information you gave is very useful.
I couldn't care less about scale focusing accuracy, because I'm not going to use my Leica lenses on micro 4/3 for street shooting/depth of field stuff. The crop factor makes 40mm and 50mm lenses portrait lenses, and I like accurate focusing and shallow depth of field.
The focusing beyond infinity is also not an issue, and I experienced it before with Voigtlander LTM adapter. I think it's done deliberately, in order to make sure that you have infinity focusing.
Thanks a lot
Assaf

 

[Philip Whiteman]

I bought one of the now bargain-priced EP-1s a couple of weeks ago, along with a Voigtlander adaptor. I find my 50mm Summicron focusses perfectly at infinity. As to scale focussing; all the cine photographers I know have their 35mm Zeiss primes calibrated and marked up for use with DSLR bodies when shooting HD video.

Just my two penny worth