Are you still using hacked lenses?

[hwntw]

in hong kong in the local camera circle there are quite a bit of imaginative oldtimers and camera hackers here to change old point and shoots or weird lens into your A7 or leica m mount. i seen a contax t2 38mm lens adapted to m mount as well.

i been thinking of taking a stepless aperture from a old jupiter 8 or some other broken old FSU lens to construct a working aperture with some point and shoot film cameras to adapt into a m mount (screw mount adapter).

i was thinking of adapting the yashica T with the zeiss 35mm 3.5 lens, and also a broken down 28mm 2.8 from the Gr1s as well.

currently i have two MS optical lens for the m mount; a 28mm 3.5 fujifilm lens from the super mini/ tiara, and a 40mm 2.4 summarit from the minilux.

for other mounts, i put a cheap OM to Nikon F mount on a old zuiko 50mm f1.4 with great results. It really handles great on my FM2n.

Would love to see pics of these converted lenses for Leica M

 

[kaiwasoyokaze]

Would love to see pics of these converted lenses for Leica M

oh, you mean pictures of the lens themselves? or pictures made by the lens. so far i have taken a lot of pics from the summarit 40mm with M240, but not a lot for the 28mm 3.5.

 

[Fuchs]

I am regularly using a 50/2 Summicron-R and a 35-70/4R on my Nikon FM2 converted with Leitax mounts.

 

[raid]

Is this an adapter or are the lenses permanently hacked?

 

[kuuan]

Is this an adapter or are the lenses permanently hacked?

it's replacing the mount, but shouldn't be necessarily permanent but reversible: http://www.leitax.com/leica-lens-for-nikon-cameras.html

 

[02Pilot]

Unless you count reversing the lens on a Brownie Hawkeye or doing a couple of pinhole conversions, I don't have any hacked lenses. I do have ideas, however - the current one is to hack a Rollei 40/2.8 Sonnar from a 35S into a Soviet collapsible LTM mount. Whether this is really viable or not, I have no idea.

 

[raid]

it's replacing the mount, but shouldn't be necessarily permanent but reversible: http://www.leitax.com/leica-lens-for-nikon-cameras.html

This is very interesting. Having a reversible mount is very useful. Just in case you get second thoughts one day.

 

[raid]

Unless you count reversing the lens on a Brownie Hawkeye or doing a couple of pinhole conversions, I don't have any hacked lenses. I do have ideas, however - the current one is to hack a Rollei 40/2.8 Sonnar from a 35S into a Soviet collapsible LTM mount. Whether this is really viable or not, I have no idea.

I have the 40/2.8 in LTM, and it was costly. Having a lower cost hacked version makes sense.

 

[hwntw]

oh, you mean pictures of the lens themselves? or pictures made by the lens. so far i have taken a lot of pics from the summarit 40mm with M240, but not a lot for the 28mm 3.5.

Yes, lets see the lenses

 

[sepiareverb]

Using a Schneider Xenar 38/2.8 from a Kodak Instamatic 500. Had it hacked for me in Japan through Bellamy. I love it. Coverage is surprisingly good.

I had a Contax G 45 that had been converted to M but never really settled into it, the heliocoid was just not quite right somehow.

 

[Nokton48]

Here are a few of the lenses I use on my three Makiflex cameras:


From the left: 240mm Schneider Xenar, 240mm Schneider Symmar-S, and 240mm Schneider Componon.
On the camera is a Rodenstock 250mm Imagon.

 

[wjlapier]

Nikon 35Ti M Mount

Nikon 35Ti M Mount

For some reason photos embedded from flickr are not working for me.

 

[sepiareverb]

For some reason photos embedded from flickr are not working for me.

I couldn't use images from photobucket either.

 

[raid]

Maybe it is a website with viruses?

 

[Nokton48]

Another hacked lens from my collection.

300mm f5.6 Schneider Componon (8x10" enlarging lens) mounted on my new Makiflex Bellows Attachment, which turns the Makiflex into the Pecoflex. Basically a Plasmat formula (like the Symmar) but corrected more for close-in shooting. Very useful.

 

[zuiko85]

Yes, on my Pen F film bodies.

 

[shawn]

I am enjoying the Nikon L35 AF lens I added to an Industar 69 and grafted to a Fuji adapter.

Working on a Yashica 45 1.7 to Fuji.

Future plans...

Medalist 100mm F3.5 to Fuji
Rollei 35S to Fuji

Shawn

 

[Nokton48]

2016-08-22 15.12.55 by Nokton48, on Flickr

^^^
Fuji GX 150mm F4.5 press-fitted into the front of the Makiflex Standard. Won't fit into the Auto Makiflex because of the cables, smaller throat, etc. Shown focused at infinity and shows great promise. Bet I could use the 135mm GX and even the 125mm GX. And the F/stops are workable and the lens is still collimated as it came from the factory.

I removed part of the back mount, cut the stranded connecting cable, and it fits tightly like it was made for it. Now to come up with something more permanent... WOW it is sharp on the groundglass. This is a killer lens!