Digital body for our glorious Soviet Jupiter-12 and other Soviet Lenses

[Semushkin]

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1716709#post1716709

 

[reagan]

I dunno. Looks pretty cool ... And a J.12 is a nice little lens IMHO.

 

[David Hughes]

Don't Leica make one? Called the M9 or something...

Regards, David

 

[reagan]

Don't Leica make one? Called the M9 or something...

mmm, not exactly. The Ricoh is quite a different approach ... interchangeable sensors / interchangeable lens modules, interchangeable lenses. Check it out (video).

image from: http://www.photographyblog.com

 

[unixrevolution]

mmm, not exactly. The Ricoh is quite a different approach ... interchangeable sensors / interchangeable lens modules, interchangeable lenses. Check it out (video).

image from: http://www.photographyblog.com

So the leica doesn't do the wholly unnecessary sensor-swapping, but why can't you mount a J-12 to an M8/M9/RD-1?

 

[reagan]

I dont own any of these digitals, so I know nothing. But I suspect the rather large rear end on a J.12 might ?? restrict use on some. The owner of the Ricoh pointed out, "be veeerrry careful."

 

[rxmd]

So the leica doesn't do the wholly unnecessary sensor-swapping, but why can't you mount a J-12 to an M8/M9/RD-1?

It certainly works on an R-D1, and people seem to have been using J-12s on Leica digital Ms, too.