eleskin
Well-known
All of this business about the Metabones speed booster has my interest, and I even bought the Chinese version on Ebay to experiment with my Minolta MD lenses. A very cool device indeed. I also have a sizable Leica M lens collection with an M8 that I hardly use anymore, the X Pro's technology is just that much better. I do use my Noctilux alot with my Fuji. What gets to me is I have no stomach to blow 7K on an M240. The Sony A7R is less painful at $2300 but there are issues: Shutter shock vibration, spending $2,300, and the form factor. I am much more comfortable with how the Fuji is designed with traditional controls, the size of the camera in my hand is just right, etc,,. If it were full frame I would be in heaven right now but it is not. I know they say it is impossible to construct an M adapter speed booster because there is just not enough room in such a short mount. I am just wondering optically if there is a way to correct the projected image from the M lens so you could get a full frame look on an X Pro-1 ? Could you arrange the elements in a way that the projection to sensor distance increases hence making room for the adpter? I realize you would be limited in the lenses you could use. Any rear elements could not come in contact with any optics in an adapter. I would be ok with that. In fact, if they made a full frame adapter specifically for a Noctilux I would buy it. Right now it looks like my only option is to accept the crop, or use SLR lenses. Any thoughts?
Jamie Pillers
Skeptic
No technical thoughts as I'm not knowledgable in such things. But I'll definitely add my voice to the crowd interested in such a device!
semilog
curmudgeonly optimist
Probably not possible with good optical quality. The flange distance for M lenses is too short.
Leica appears to be the only company making interchangeable lens digital cameras that is optimizing for lenses that have nodal points close to the sensor plane. Leica is doing it almost exclusively to support the use of legacy M glass, which is noble, but other manufacturers don't face that design constraint.
Leica appears to be the only company making interchangeable lens digital cameras that is optimizing for lenses that have nodal points close to the sensor plane. Leica is doing it almost exclusively to support the use of legacy M glass, which is noble, but other manufacturers don't face that design constraint.
eleskin
Well-known
Yeh depressing: Enter Minolta PG 58mm f1.2
Yeh depressing: Enter Minolta PG 58mm f1.2
I guess I am just wishing here. My best bet is probably using a Minolta PG 58mm f1.2 to get as close as I can to a full frame Noctilux look for my X Pro. I think I will start a thread on who likes to use the Minolta 58mm f1.2 with a Metabones Speed Booster on their X Pro-1.
Yeh depressing: Enter Minolta PG 58mm f1.2
I guess I am just wishing here. My best bet is probably using a Minolta PG 58mm f1.2 to get as close as I can to a full frame Noctilux look for my X Pro. I think I will start a thread on who likes to use the Minolta 58mm f1.2 with a Metabones Speed Booster on their X Pro-1.
Monochrom
Well-known
it should be possible, but wonder how will you focus the lens, i don´t know but i think X lenses have a motor drive to focus....they lack a focuing helicoid conected to the focus ring...i´m i wrong?
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