[LRflex] Re: leica M lenses on the Micro 4/3rds G1
- From: Douglas Sharp <douglas.sharp@xxxxxx>
- To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 11:08:19 +0100
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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