LTM to Fuji X adapter

[lxmike]

Hi, has anyone used the ltm to fuji x adapters that are sold on ebay, any views or tips, obviously l would not collapse the lens and expect it to be manual focus and manual metering, just wondered is these adapters are of any use or indeed good

 

[YYV_146]

Metering can be auto and will work exactly the same as native lenses, minus the automatic aperture close. This means that focusing wide open and then stopping down yields the best results.

You can have a lot of fun with adapters, and most collaps able lenses should even clear the shutter...

 

[back alley]

they are pretty simple/basic and work fine afaik...i bought a cheapie and it worked for me.
i think i still have it tucked away at home...if you want it i'll send it your way.

 

[MaxElmar]

The main problem with the cheap adapters is that the infinity focus is wrong. In other words, infinity focus happens before the hard stop on the lens. What's way worse than that, in my opinion, is that you loose close focus too - your lens that focussed to .9m on a proper adapter or body only focusses to 1.1m on the adapter. Drives me nuts (not a long trip, admittedly). Not sure if it's still the case, but the official Fuji adapter had this problem. The Rayqual and the Novoflex are known to be correct. Most folks would get a Leica M adapter and use the LTM>M adapter with that. Novoflex makes a native Fuji x > LTM adapter.

I have used cheap LTM adapters with shims to obtain proper infinity focus (or even better close focus.)

 

[goamules]

Yes, I use a TON of adapted lenses on Fuji and m4/3 cameras. I have no modern, native lenses for my digital cameras. I mostly shoot LTM, but also C-mount and Pen-F mount. All the adapters work fine. Sometimes your lens screws down to where the scale focus marks are not on top. I think you can adjust the mount on some, but I never bother. Why would you scale focus anyway? Even to infinity, I ALWAYS view focus. I don't trust scales on anything. I've never had an adapter that would not ALLOW you to get to infinity, and I don't care if it's at the limit of focus adjust, or not.

 

[MaxElmar]

If that works for you, Garrett, more power to you. Some of us just like things to work properly. But then again, if the people who made the adapter can't get the registration distance right - are the mounting surfaces even parallel? Are the locking slots/mechanism in the right place - or will the thing lock on to the camera until it's dismantled? Or will the adapter separate or lens fall off the adapter onto concrete or into a waterfall or a volcano? Some of us may want to take a photo at the minimum distance - esp with LTM lenses that don't focus very close anyway. I'm simply saying there's more to it than scales and where the infinity mark falls.

 

[goamules]

Boy, what an alarmist. It's a simple ring of metal, a flange.

Some of us like using legacy lenses, and don't worry the sky is falling. Yes, they work for me, thousands of pictures taken, and for many others, with millions of pictures. i have about 20 LTM and C mount lenses I enjoy using. I don't sweat the small stuff, nor borrow a jack for the big stuff like if ("....the adapter separate or lens fall off the adapter onto concrete or into a waterfall or a volcano?"...)

 

[lxmike]

thanks for all the replies chaps very helpful indeed

 

[fer_fdi]

My experience is that it is a lottery... (with LTM adapters)

What I do is to use M rings on my LTM lenses and use them on my M adapter.
I use Hawks adapter for M, it has an helicoid for close-up.
It goes a tiny bit beyond infinity.

Yes, I'd love an accurate LTM and M adapter too...

 

[02Pilot]

I have and use one of the cheap adapters. It's actually a two-piece unit. If you remove the LTM threaded part (held in by three grub screws) you can easily shim it to get proper infinity focus.