jagarch
Member
I'm a pauper trying to go wide on a IIIf. Jupiter 12 seems good but I don't want to buy from Eastern Europe and ebay and no paypal and all that. Also I'd like 28mm or wider. Seems like the cheapest way to go 28mm LTM is a CV, about $330, right?
Has anyone used an adapter and a cheap 28mm, like say a Vivitar 28mm/2.8 in m42 pentax screw mount? Or a Tamron 28mm with T mount adapter? These are dirt cheap both for the lens and the adapter. I know you get no rangefinder coupling but scale focusing seems fine with a lens this wide anyway. Would you get infinity focusing?
Furthermore it looks like you can get a cheap 24mm or 20mm lens in Pentax screw mount and go even wider, and worry even less about focusing.
I looked at the Canon Converter B adapter (FD to M39) but it looks like those are much more expensive than the m42 type.
or am I crazy?
Has anyone used an adapter and a cheap 28mm, like say a Vivitar 28mm/2.8 in m42 pentax screw mount? Or a Tamron 28mm with T mount adapter? These are dirt cheap both for the lens and the adapter. I know you get no rangefinder coupling but scale focusing seems fine with a lens this wide anyway. Would you get infinity focusing?
Furthermore it looks like you can get a cheap 24mm or 20mm lens in Pentax screw mount and go even wider, and worry even less about focusing.
I looked at the Canon Converter B adapter (FD to M39) but it looks like those are much more expensive than the m42 type.
or am I crazy?
OldNick
Well-known
If you can accept the view of a 35mm lens, you can get a late LTM Jupiter 12 from Yuri at the Fedka website, and purchase a 35mm CV finder. That package is what I have used quite successfully on my IIIf. See my avatar at left.
Jim N.
Jim N.
payasam
a.k.a. Mukul Dube
PM me if you wish. J-12.
Al Kaplan
Veteran
Yup, you can put an SLR wide angle lens on a RFDR and scale focus it no problem. Cameraquest sells some pretty nice finders too.
iamzip
Ambitious, but rubbish
You can put Canon FD lenses on LTM:
http://www.cameraquest.com/nikonaf.htm
Just gotta find the adapter on eBay.
http://www.cameraquest.com/nikonaf.htm
Just gotta find the adapter on eBay.