Rare M mount lenses and crazy conversions to M mount - Oh my!

[Timmy P]

Looks like this guy has every rare M mount lens in existance. He's even gone the distance and has had his G mount lenses converted to M mount. Check it out

http://www.cielworks.com/sd9/

Cheers,

-Tim

 

[Avotius]

Wowowowo I didnt know they made a Ricoh 21 GR lens in screw mount! Crazy stuff. Some people have way too much money.

 

[Tom A]

Oh yes, they made a 21f3.5 Ricoh in screw mount. I know, because I have one of them. Very small and compact and not bad at all. On par with a 21/3,4 Super Angulon. The guy at Ricoh who designed it gave me one years ago. The lens is nice and the finder is atrocious!
The GR 28 was another of their lenses, good but quite flare prone.
This guy has a lot of toys, the Contax G to LTM/M adapter was made in Tokyo - I dont know if it ever went into production, but I saw some prototypes at one time. Supposedly Kyocera stopped the guy from going into procution at one time.
He misses some of the stranger ones, the Hexanon 60mm f1.2, the Konica collapsible 50mm f2.4 and the Bi-Hexanon 21-35 in M-mount.
There is a "cottage" industry in Japan when it comes to making lenses for rangefinder cameras. Some are better than others, but you certainly can find something strange even without to much scrounging around.

 

[Matt White]

the Contax G to LTM/M adapter was made in Tokyo - I dont know if it ever went into production, but I saw some prototypes at one time. Supposedly Kyocera stopped the guy from going into procution at one time.

Wow, I could get completely obsessed with tracking down one of these. I'd so love to be able to use my G lenses without having to put up with the G2's tunnel-vision viewfinder.

 

[grainy_shadows]

This guy has a lot of toys, the Contax G to LTM/M adapter was made in Tokyo - I dont know if it ever went into production, but I saw some prototypes at one time.

I would love to try out some of those G Zeiss lens

 

[tomasis]

anyone knows where to get those tiny mini softreleases as we see them on M8 and Rd1 camera pictures from that website?

 

[Bobfrance]

Wow! I just checked out the price of those 21mm Ricoh lenses on the bay.

£1,492.26! (Nearly $3000.00)

Think I'll stick with my Ricoh P&S.

 

[Tom A]

anyone knows where to get those tiny mini softreleases as we see them on M8 and Rd1 camera pictures from that website?

They look like our Mini Softie's. Most of the japanese versions are not available in color. E-mail Tuulikki and ask for color and availability.
Tom