[LRflex] Re: leica M lenses on the Micro 4/3rds G1

It looks like the Lumix G1 offers the most affordable way to
mount R-lenses on a digital body...Maybe Solms engineers will revamp it into
a Leica...

Miha




2008/12/29 Douglas Sharp <douglas.sharp@xxxxxx>

> Thanks for posting it again Howard,
>
> I recently went the other way and bought two adapters, one for Leica-R and
> one for Contax/Yashica lenses on Leica-M,
>
> I hope to have some results soon - here are a couple of shots of M bodies
> with various lenses:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/M4-2_SA21.jpg.html
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/M6_ZEISS.jpg.html
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DMS/M6_Yashica24.jpg.html
>
> Before anyone gets up in arms about putting Yashica glass on a Leica body -
> they made some really excellent lenses that are now sold second hand at
> almost giveaway prices. (Try a Yashica 2.8/55 macro or 3.5/21 mm for the
> biggest surprises!)
>
> Cheers
> Douglas
>
>
>
> H&ECummer wrote:
>
>>  Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 00:05:33 +0100
>>> From: Douglas Sharp <douglas.sharp@xxxxxx <mailto:douglas.sharp@xxxxxx>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Subject: [LRflex] Re: New Year and new camera - exposure problem
>>>
>>> Steve,
>>>
>>> I recently read that you have to tell new micro-four thirds cameras that
>>> no lens is connected before you can use Leica-M lenses on them - BTW
>>> Novoflex has an M to Micro-4/3 adapter in the pipeline - or perhaps already
>>> available.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Douglas
>>>
>>
>>
>> Dear Douglas,
>> I posted this on the LUG several days ago and thought that most Flexers
>> might have seen it there,
>> but for those who don't inhabit both lists here is my take on using M
>> lenses on the G1 with the RayQual adapter.
>> To those that have seen it elsewhere I apologize for the redundancy. I
>> trust it is okay to post this rangefinder topic on the reflex forum. You
>> could use R lenses on the G1 via R to Oly to Micro 4/3rds
>> adapter(s) but the lenses would seem awfully big.
>>
>> Hi Luggers,
>> Ray Tai and Chris Topher and I met at the China Tee Club December 23 and
>> mated my L > M4/3rds RayQual adapter with
>> Chris's black Panasonic G1. We used my 15 Heliar, the 24 Elmarit, the 35
>> Summilux Asph, The Tri-Elmar, the 50mm Summilux Asph,
>> the 90 Summicron APO, my old 135 Elmar (from 1964) and Chris's 50mm Zeiss
>> f1.5.
>>
>> Pictures taken with some of these lenses can be found at:
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/M+Lenses+to+Micro+4-3rds/
>>
>> http://tinyurl.com/9bh9zx
>>
>> The EVF is better than I remember it at Photokina. Under fluorescent
>> lights
>> there is strobing in the viewfinder but with daylight or other lighting
>> the EVF works quite well.
>> A Leica rangefinder viewfinder it isn't but still it is usable. You have
>> to set the G1 to fire
>> the shutter without a lens on the camera and that takes some digging
>> through the instruction
>> book to find the menus within menus.
>> What is very appealing is that in manual focus you touch the left arrow of
>> the control wheel on the back
>> and that brings up a 10X magnification box. You can move the box over the
>> area you want
>> to enlarge and then push the set button in the center of the control wheel
>> to enlarge that section.
>> You have to be quite fast to fix focus because the magnification shuts off
>> in about 3 seconds. It is easiest to use with wide angle lenses because the
>> magnified camera shake is not so great. For telephotos like the 90 Cron and
>> the
>> 135 Elmar - the shaking of the hand held camera is so magnified that it is
>> hard to fix focus before the magnification
>> turns off. Chris believes a firmware upgrade has already been announced to
>> allow the user to extend the timing
>> of the magnification. (Update I have installed the new firmware and now
>> the magnification stays on)
>> I didn't get to take the camera out for any street shooting so I can't
>> comment on its use there and I didn't have
>> time (nor inclination) to work through all the camera's features and
>> menus.
>> Still, as you can see from the pictures it performs pretty well - although
>> we did notice that white balance when set to auto
>> fluctuated quite a bit from shot to shot.
>> A feature which appeals to me for street shooting is the moveable view
>> screen on the back but I will have to test it
>> another day.
>> Bottom line: Would I buy one? Could be, but I wasn't so blown away that I
>> ran next door to get one today. Still, I might
>> when the new prices fall a bit more.
>> Comments and questions welcome.
>> Cheers
>> Howard
>>
>> PS: The update to the above is that I have bought a G1 (gave it to my
>> lovely wife for Xmas - a red one - which she liked after trying it at
>> Photokina
>> so we now have a back up for my M8 when we go traveling). Beats hauling
>> around my D700 which I did to Photokina.
>>
>> PPS: The G1 works in stopdown mode with the M lenses, the viewfinder
>> brightening as the lens is closed down and the exposure remains consistent.
>> None of the Canon variation mentioned in the list earlier.
>>
>> PPPS: It is interesting that the G 1 kit is selling for C$750 in Canada
>> and I had to pay C$935 for the kit (G1 plus 14 - 45 kit lens) in Hong Kong.
>> That is the first time ever in my experience that Canadian prices have
>> been less than Hong Kong prices.
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