Cra**iest wide-angle for m-mount?

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Chris,

I will take a pic of the set-up and post it here. I don't have any finder even close to the fisheye perspective, so I use a 25mm finder and I guess the view.

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Spiratone used to make a 12mm prime that "looks" alot like this. Put a M42 T-Mount on the lens. To mount it to the M body, you would need a Canon Lens Mount Converter A, and a Canon Lens Mount Converter B. Add an M mount adapter, and you are -good to go-.

You wouldn't need a finder with such a lens. Wing it🙂

The back focus of a 12mm is probably going to be 12mm. the body will be too thick for it to focus to infinity.

I used a single condensor lens from an ol Kodak projector on a bellows aon my canon and got some beautiful soft focus images but the speed of th elns was about f 1.4. Beautiful effect with a moderately sharp center and progressively softening out to the edges.

Raid: If you're needing a circular fisheye finder go to the hardware store and get a see through fisheye for the front door. Works great and I've seen folks adapt it to a 50mm lens for a very poor quality fisheye effect. Might work well on a macro 50.

 

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X-Ray: Thanks for the tip. I will check it out. Would I then just hold the finder to my eyes? There is no easy way to attach it to the camera, is it?

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I'm still looking for my 7.5mm lens to post a pic of it on an M body.

 

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I went through my camera closet, and I found the lens!
Here is the "set":

M6 plus M adapter plus FD adapter plus Canon 7.5 mm SSC lens.
I will try out this set-up for street photography and then crop.



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28mm Summaron?

28mm Summaron?

I have this basic problem that Leica shooters always have; all my lenses are way too good, I want Holga quality and it seems to be hard to achieve. So, about 28mm focal lenght, much vignetting, horrible colors etc. nice features -- how can I get that with ltm/m-bayonet?

Try finding a 28mm/5.6 Summaron in LTM. They look pretty bad on paper in the Leica pocket book. Low contrast and lots of vignetting. Not good until f/16 supposedly.

 

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Most suggestions so far have been additive (to make a good lens 'bad'), how about subtracting? Removing a lens element usually shortens the focal length. This would however though focus out. If you would reverse the element focus may still be ok, but the lens will be 'uncorrected'.
You could experiment with concocting a lens from various lens elements untill they suit your needs.
There are millions of crappy lenses in the world begging to be recycled for art!
I have in the past made a 35mm pinhole camera. It was kind of a blurry, but eary wide angle effect.