Mounting a 20 mm mir on an M2. Viewvfinder suggestion - adapter

[biginovero]

Hallo everybody.

I'm willing to mount a nice MIR 20 mm for 42x1 soviet cameras on an M2.

This lens (http://www.ebay.it/itm/262270548659?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT) with this adapter (http://www.adrianololli.com/articolo.asp?ID=3294).

I would like to know if there are some cheap viewfinder options.

Also I have asked the adapter vendor if the above adapter might happen to have issues with this specific lens but I have got no answer.

As for the viewfinder I was asking myself if there are sports finder around for this combination or if I could easily build one (I have access to a friend's metalworking facility and my friend is a machinist and a good tinkerer).


regards and ty in advance

 

[biginovero]

I spoke directly to Mr. Lolli, who turned out to be an old school artisan, both knowledgeable and opinionated.

He told me the lens is not only very good but it will also match perfectly an analog leica camera.

problems might only arise with digital cameras because of inconsistencies in chips thickness.

I didn't delve much into this issue as it was just a phone call.

As for the viewfinder he told me not to worry.

I will probably build an elementary sports finder and adapt it by trial and error, possibly by placing a ground glass on the film plane and adapting the wire frame to what I will see.

Being a daylight panorama and buildings shooter I will not need to shot at full aperture so the lack of rf coupling will be unimportant

 

[ruby.monkey]

Why the MIR? Try this instead: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Voigtland...ns-/131702108248?_trksid=p2141725.m3641.l6368 Or hunt around a bit and you'll find one with its finder for not too much more.

At least it's meant to work on a Leica, and it's an excellent lens in its own right.

 

[biginovero]

Why the MIR? Try this instead: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Voigtland...ns-/131702108248?_trksid=p2141725.m3641.l6368 Or hunt around a bit and you'll find one with its finder for not too much more.

At least it's meant to work on a Leica, and it's an excellent lens in its own right.

Perfect suggestion but I failed to say the MIR has been in my possession for quite a few years.

I bought it in Munich well before the fall of the Berlin wall, I was advised to buy it by a wise german vendor who made me save my money as I had come to him to buy a contax zeiss 18, his majesty the wide angle of that period.

Apart some slight inferiority to the zeiss in its lens coating, which is nonetheless decent, the results of the MIR were ever very good.

The lens has virtually no distortion when kept perpendicular to terrain.

Obviously a zeiss would have been an ideal choice but a sporadic use of this focal length made me choose otherwise and I never regretted it.

Before deciding to dust of the MIR I was considering a biogon 21 in Zm mount but I simply choose to save the extra money for film and trips with my favourite model :angel:

 

[raid]

I have beenufing a 21/4 Minolta rokkor and a canon 19/3.5 on Leica film cameras. I use a 20mm russar finder

 

[bobby_novatron]

Hallo everybody.

I'm willing to mount a nice MIR 20 mm for 42x1 soviet cameras on an M2.

This lens (http://www.ebay.it/itm/262270548659?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT) with this adapter (http://www.adrianololli.com/articolo.asp?ID=3294).

I would like to know if there are some cheap viewfinder options.

Also I have asked the adapter vendor if the above adapter might happen to have issues with this specific lens but I have got no answer.

As for the viewfinder I was asking myself if there are sports finder around for this combination or if I could easily build one (I have access to a friend's metalworking facility and my friend is a machinist and a good tinkerer).


regards and ty in advance

Maybe you could locate a finder for the CV Color-Skopar 21mm F4. That would give you a 21mm field-of-view, almost exactly the same as the MIR. Perhaps there are some available used (eBay).

Here is a link for viewfinders (new) from CameraQuest:

https://cameraquest.com/voigtacc.htm

Good luck with your lens! That is a unique piece -- very cool!

 

[biginovero]

Maybe you could locate a finder for the CV Color-Skopar 21mm F4. That would give you a 21mm field-of-view, almost exactly the same as the MIR. Perhaps there are some available used (eBay).

Here is a link for viewfinders (new) from CameraQuest:

https://cameraquest.com/voigtacc.htm

Good luck with your lens! That is a unique piece -- very cool!

Indeed a cool lens. I have just dusted off my contax, if I frame my house's rooms I see no distortion at all.

Image appears sharp enough, as I told before I just remember a slight inferiority of the coating to other more prestigious lenses.

On ebay this lens, also in its latest incarnations, will not cost fortune as a russar and, judging by some russar test pictures I have found on the italian web, should be on par with it or possibly better.

Weight is quite passable as well.

 

[aoresteen]

Why the MIR? Try this instead: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Voigtland...ns-/131702108248?_trksid=p2141725.m3641.l6368 Or hunt around a bit and you'll find one with its finder for not too much more.

At least it's meant to work on a Leica, and it's an excellent lens in its own right.

I have and use the Voigtlander 21mm f/4 LTM (the lens in the link) on my Leicaa IIIs. It came with plastic Voigtlander 21mm finder.

If you bought a Bessa R4m, it has the 21mm viewfinder built in.

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