uhoh7
Veteran
Chubberino
Well-known
nice!!!!!!!
Alfonso B
Established
Now that's a cool lens! I just remembered trying to use a MTO 1000A mirror lens on my Fuji X-P1 to capture the moon. It barely fit the sensor and my tripod ball head was too shaky. I need to get a cradle style head from a telescope or something.
zhang xk
Well-known
A Carl Zeiss Jena Mikrotar 45/4.5 mounted on a Zenith 80.
zhang xk
Well-known
I should start a thread for my collection of weird and rare lenses.；）A Chinese missile tracking lens of about 2000mm F8，weighs about 30 kilograms.
raid
Dad Photographer
Do you have a licence for a conceyled weapons?
8th-samurai
Newbie
35mm color-minotar converted to Fuji XF that I bought a few months ago on ebay. I'm actually gonna sell it because I really don't get on with the focal length and it should be owned by someone that uses it rather than sit on my shelf.
Calzone
Gear Whore #1
No photo, but imagine a chrome 65/3.5 Elmar Visoflex lens mounted via a stack of three Leica adapters mounted on a Leica SL. The three adapters are: Visoflex to R; R adapter to M; and M adapter to T.
BTW works like a charm. Leica does not advertise mounting Visoflex lenses on a SL.
Cal
BTW works like a charm. Leica does not advertise mounting Visoflex lenses on a SL.
Cal
johannielscom
Snorting silver salts
Wollensak Velostigmat 50mm 2.8 from a Perfex Deluxe, adapted to a brass lens mount from an Industar-22
Whole article is here: http://www.johanniels.com/index.php...a-perfex-wollensack-lens-into-leica-ltm-mount
Chubberino
Well-known
cool indeed
Jake Mongey
Well-known
Weirdest for me was having my granddads dream lens on a OLY pen ep3. Talk about unergonomic
Timmyjoe
Veteran
Don't have the camera or the lenses anymore, but I made an adapter to mount Cooke Speed Panchro's (motion picture camera lenses) on a Panasonic GH-1. That was one of the advantages of that camera, you could mount pretty much anything on it.
Best,
-Tim
Best,
-Tim
xyz3450
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I should start a thread for my collection of weird and rare lenses.；）A Chinese missile tracking lens of about 2000mm F8，weighs about 30 kilograms.
"A Chinese missile tracking lens" -- Yikes.....
Rico
Well-known
I've mixed lens and camera brands for years, generally with respectably machined adapters. Examples:
Occasionally, I'm compelled to do something crazy. This is half a step above freehanding:
Result is some pretty extreme spherical aberration. Leica glow, anyone?
I eventually discovered how to detach the head properly.
Occasionally, I'm compelled to do something crazy. This is half a step above freehanding:
Result is some pretty extreme spherical aberration. Leica glow, anyone?
I eventually discovered how to detach the head properly.
narsuitus
Well-known
This may not be my weirdest adapted lens but it is the only one that has been called "sacrilegious."
I first used this adaptation back in the early 1970s when I had a Leica M1 that I used primarily on a microscope. Back then, a single Nikon F/Leica M adapter did not exist. I had to search until I found two adapters, one that allowed a Nikon F lens to mount on an "X" body and another adapter that allowed an "X" lens to mount on a Leica M body. I no longer remember what "X" was; however, unlike the adapters of today, I do remember that this "sacrilegious" adaptation did not permit focusing on infinity.
Since my Nikon lens did not connect to the Leica rangefinder (plus, the Leica M1 did not even have a rangefinder), I had to use zone focusing. For example, on my 18mm lens, I set the focus distance to 1 meter and the f/stop to f/11 so that everything from about 1/2 meter to infinity was in focus.
Nikkor on Leica by Narsuitus, on Flickr
I first used this adaptation back in the early 1970s when I had a Leica M1 that I used primarily on a microscope. Back then, a single Nikon F/Leica M adapter did not exist. I had to search until I found two adapters, one that allowed a Nikon F lens to mount on an "X" body and another adapter that allowed an "X" lens to mount on a Leica M body. I no longer remember what "X" was; however, unlike the adapters of today, I do remember that this "sacrilegious" adaptation did not permit focusing on infinity.
Since my Nikon lens did not connect to the Leica rangefinder (plus, the Leica M1 did not even have a rangefinder), I had to use zone focusing. For example, on my 18mm lens, I set the focus distance to 1 meter and the f/stop to f/11 so that everything from about 1/2 meter to infinity was in focus.
Nikkor on Leica by Narsuitus, on Flickr
02Pilot
Malcontent
I've shown these here before, but since you asked...
Nikon L35AF 35mm f/2.8 hacked into a butchered Industar-50 barrel (LTM mount). Scale focus (RF cam is still there, but it doesn't match up properly due the difference in focal length) down to 0.45m.
Praktica M60 26mm f/5.6 (which apparently was a rebadged Fuji P&S of some sort) with the aperture removed and jammed into an LTM body cap, making for a fixed focus (2m to infinity), fixed aperture ultra-compact lens.
I did all the testing of these on my X-E1, so at least they're marginally appropriate for this forum.
Nikon L35AF 35mm f/2.8 hacked into a butchered Industar-50 barrel (LTM mount). Scale focus (RF cam is still there, but it doesn't match up properly due the difference in focal length) down to 0.45m.
Praktica M60 26mm f/5.6 (which apparently was a rebadged Fuji P&S of some sort) with the aperture removed and jammed into an LTM body cap, making for a fixed focus (2m to infinity), fixed aperture ultra-compact lens.
I did all the testing of these on my X-E1, so at least they're marginally appropriate for this forum.
rybolt
Well-known
I am humbled by some of these hacks! Fantastic work!