CANON 5dmk2 converted to Leica M!!!!

[loneranger]

Now if someone could hack off the bulky mirror box and put a nice mechanical rangefinder in there, maybe one taken from a cheap 70's point and shoot, then I'm in.

 

[nonot]

Anyone who wants a rangefinder still needs an M, though.

You're right, a Mamiya 6.

 

[mbisc]

Am I the only one bothered by the significant vignetting on the three sample photos? I wonder if that's some kind of mechanical vignetting, since I doubt that the Noctilux woudl do that?

 

[f16sunshine]

Am I the only one bothered by the significant vignetting on the three sample photos? I wonder if that's some kind of mechanical vignetting, since I doubt that the Noctilux woudl do that?

Noct f1 vignettes significantly at wide open.

Here is Flickriver. Scroll down until you find some wo samples on m9 from "ming" or others.
http://www.flickriver.com/search/leica+noctilux+f1/

 

[rastas]

vignetting

vignetting

Those were shot wide open at F1 and at that aperture there is vignetting with that lens on any camera. I like the slight vignetting myself (back in the darkroom days I used to intentionally add vignetting to prints to bring eye into frame...). But if I wanted to correct it there is cornerfix, free software specifically made for vignetting on leica lenses.

I will post photos of the camera today, raw photos as well, on a website for people to download and inspect and wooo over.

 

[mbisc]

Noct f1 vignettes significantly at wide open.

Here is Flickriver. Scroll down until you find some wo samples on m9 from "ming" or others.
http://www.flickriver.com/search/leica+noctilux+f1/

Interesting, didn't know that. Not trying to start a flame war, but I wouldn't expect that from a lens in that price category. My f1.4 / 50mm C/Y Planar (fastest lens I have) certainly doesn't do that...

 

[jordanatkins]

I'm certainly interested. Those sample photos have that 3-dimensional look of large format photos. I love it.

I have major GAS now.

 

[rxmd]

Interesting, didn't know that. Not trying to start a flame war, but I wouldn't expect that from a lens in that price category. My f1.4 / 50mm C/Y Planar (fastest lens I have) certainly doesn't do that...

That is a common sentiment, but I think it misses the point of the Noctilux. Design constraints for extreme speed lenses are such that it is hard to make them better than a much less constrained f/1.4 (or f/2.0) lens. 50/f1.4 and 50/f2 lenses are bread-and-butter designs nowadays that are hard to beat and hard to improve. The point of the Noctilux is using it at f/1.0, and while some people use it as a general walkabout lens there are others who never take theirs off the f/1.0 setting. If you don't need f/1.0, you are 100% certainly better off with another lens.

Incidentally the same could be said about the Canon 50/f1, which is much more expensive, but not really better at f/1.2 or f/1.4 than Canon's own 50/f1.2 and 50/f1.4 lenses.

 

[Pablito]

If you don't need f/1.0, you are 100% certainly better off with another lens.

No one needs f1.0.

 

[Hamfish]

Matt Granger

Matt Granger

ThatNikonGuy found one in HK.

So fascinating.

Canon to leica mount then back to Canon lens.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7ebhYtm31A&feature=g-all-u

 

[Lss]

You're right, a Mamiya 6.

Nothing wrong with a Mamiya.

 

[Lss]

I modified the 5dmk2, not the 5d.

Yes, understood right from the title. This conversion has however been done to the original 5D as an exercise already quite some time ago, although for most people that rig would be completely useless. Still that modification (original 5D) was pretty cool IMO, and I think many people were waiting for someone to make the same modification on a full frame body with liveview. And now yours is here. It's much better since it's actually usable.

 

[Lss]

I must have missed this one, but there was actually a thread on a 5DII conversion on RFF already in January 2011. I wonder when the original 5D conversion was shown here, or whether I saw it somewhere else. Hmm.

 

[maddoc]

Which sensor does not have microlenses?

All sensors have microlenses.

Maybe one that works for the FCC?

OK, OK .... I should have written "offset microlenses" :bang:

 

[rastas]

Picture of camera

Picture of camera

Here's a couple pics of the modified camera. You can see more and read about modification at www.dslrwirelessmonitors.com

thanks
robert

 

[Koolzakukumba]

Very clever but it seems like an exercise in the art of the possible rather than the desirable.

 

[I Love Film]

Why don't you just put a Leica M mount on it?

Having to replace the mount on the Leica lenses you want to use is a TOTAL deal killer.

Really silly. You can already use M42 lenses with a simple adapter without tearing apart the camera.

 

[Nokton48]

I want to build a 5D with a Minolta Mount MC/MD. Been thinking about it all day.
Found the website to make it happen. Change the body, not the lenses!

Minolta will do it since the registration distance is only -.5 which is just a slight mount recess to infinity focus.
Much less than some other brands of SLR lenses.

Take a look at these FF 16mm Rokkor Fisheye shots. By the way this lens was also offered by Leitz at the time.
http://digitalrokkor.altervista.org/minoltalens_fisheye.html

Very do-able!

 

[rastas]

Why don't you just put a Leica M mount on it?

Having to replace the mount on the Leica lenses you want to use is a TOTAL deal killer.

Really silly. You can already use M42 lenses with a simple adapter without tearing apart the camera.

You can find Leica M mount adapters that let you mount Leica lenses on DSLRs, but the lens wont focus to infinity. They wont even focus to three feet. It will behave like a macro lens.

If you want to use Leica M lenses on a DSLR you have to physically mount the lens much closer to the sensor. This is what I did.

You'll be doomed to mediocrity if you don't think outside the box or do radical things every now and then. I don't like following the masses like a sheep.

 

[Griffin]

It's the Millennium Falcon of camera-land!