60mm lens?

[noimmunity]

I'm succumbing to the "crop factor" disease, starting to yearn for effective focal lengths on the M8 that match film.
For that reason I keep thinking about how nice a 60mm lens would be for a short tele on the M8.
There seems to be a dearth of information about 60s in LTM or M (probably because very few were made).
The only ones I know in existence so far:
Konica 60/1.2
Leica 60/3.5
Zeiss 60/1.5
Very hard to find out anything about these lenses, much less hear user comments and see photos taken with them. Any comments and especially photos would be really welcome.

 

[ferider]

The 60/3.5 is not coupled, Jon, AFAIK.

The classic 60/1.5 Zeiss lens is one of the rarest LTM lenses out there. It also came in 58mm incarnations.

Here are a few 60/1.2 shots: http://www.flickr.com/groups/m-mount/pool/tags/KonicaHexanon60mmf1.2LTM

One way to get there might be to get a 58mm SLR lens and have Amedeo or Brian convert it ?

There were Helios-44-2, Minolta 58/1.4, and the Noct Nikkor (1.2) among others.

Cheers,

Roland.

 

[Sonnar Brian]

Recently, a camera collector asked me to work on five "odd-ball" lenses. They were all marked 5cm F1.5, but one was longer focal length. It was uncoated, and made into a single helical LTM lens.

Read about these lenses here:

http://www.ziforums.com/showthread.php?t=224

test gallery here:


http://www.ziforums.com/album.php?albumid=114


Note the FOV of the first test lens is narrower than the others. I think it was a 6cm lens cast into a custom mount.

Some people could make a 5.8cm F1.4 Nikkor-S into LTM. But not me, mine is on a Nikon F Photomic.

 

[noimmunity]

There's a lot of information in the links to digest...and I just got back from Korea. I'll have to chew on this slowly. Thanks, Brian!