Experiments with adapting Leica R lenses ...

[Godfrey]

I took out the Elmarit-R 180/2.8 and fitted it with an R to M adapter, then an M to Micro-FourThirds adapter, and snapped the Olympus E-PL1 on the back end. Just to give it a little tiny test of hand-holdability around the condo ...

All: Olympus E-PL1 fitted with Leica Elmarit-R 180mm f/2.8​

The E-PL1's image stabilization works pretty nicely! These were all made at exposures between 1/160 and 1/300 second, lens opening f/4 to f/8, ISO 640. Lovely rendering from this lens ... as expected!

enjoy
Godfrey

 

[biomed]

Very nice images!

 

[lam]

I used my old Cron-R 50/2 3-Cam on a Nikon D600 and it wasn't bad, I just wished the aperture indexing worked. Stop down metering was ... interesting. The lens produced some nice results though.


Shuffled. by lamlux.net, on Flickr

 

[dshfoto]

How did you adapt the Cron-R 50/2 3-Cam to a Nikon D600?

 

[redisburning]

leitax or other mount conversion.

not technically adapting I suppose, so much as it is converting.

 

[Godfrey]

leitax or other mount conversion.

not technically adapting I suppose, so much as it is converting.

Gosh, now that's an amazing level of linguistic nitpicking! 🙂

G

 

[Godfrey]

How did you adapt the Cron-R 50/2 3-Cam to a Nikon D600?

Leitax.com has Leica R to Nikon F mounting flanges easily available. Simple matter of taking off the R flange and installing the F flange. You don't get full function auto-diaphragm operation, or meter coupling.

G