Hologon 16mm G lens has an M mount???

The origional 15mm from the Conterax wide angle end of production parts had a pukka leitz m mount and is well expensive. The Contax G 16mm will be a cannibal.

The box says Contax G, not Leitz...

One wonders why the ZI crowd did not 'clone' the Conterax.
 
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Ok the serial number is a G Hologon, but they might have attached it to the m8 with super glue or blue tack, hey I could try that...

Noel
 
Stephen Gandy mentions this and the 21 Biogon G as being available modified to M. But needing a viewfinder regardless of body why would you choose the M over the G?
 
there is a company in Japan, it does modification of all G lens to M mount, it is not news in the East, the company has a web page, in Japanese of course:

mitte.nir.jp/~mitte0576
 
At some point Zoerk in Germany also did conversions. I am sure they did before the CV 15/4.5 came along and the 16 was the envy of all Leica M owners. Once the CV 15/4.5 was out, there were companies converting this one to Contax G, because it was still cheaper and faster. That's live for you.
 
The 16mm & 21mm G's were the reason I went with the G2 ten years ago. Also why I kept the whole system until very recently. With the CV's & ZM's on the very wide end it became redundant. Still a great system.
 
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