babaky Posted March 16, 2015 Share #1 Posted March 16, 2015 Advertisement (gone after registration) Hi there My first post on this forum and relatively new to leica, so bear with me. I hva recently purchased one of these lenses and I need it converted to M mount by soneone in europe as I live in France. Any one has any recommendation please? Thanks Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted March 16, 2015 Posted March 16, 2015 Hi babaky, Take a look here canon 50mm 0.95 TV conversion to M Mount Europe. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
jankap Posted March 16, 2015 Share #2 Posted March 16, 2015 Welcome to the forum. If you have a M240, you only need an adapter to try out the lens. EVF suffices. Jan Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
babaky Posted March 16, 2015 Author Share #3 Posted March 16, 2015 Welcome to the forum. If you have a M240, you only need an adapter to try out the lens. EVF suffices. Jan Thanks Jan, I have an MP and an M3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jankap Posted March 16, 2015 Share #4 Posted March 16, 2015 See your PM box. Jan Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pico Posted March 16, 2015 Share #5 Posted March 16, 2015 (edited) Welcome to the forum. If you have a M240, you only need an adapter to try out the lens. EVF suffices. Jan Does not work, Jan. The Canon 50mm 0.95 does not have a Leica (or Canon) screw mount. It uses an external bayonet mount, and while there is a Canon-made adapter to C mount (cine), when stacking the adapters it puts the lens too farm from the sensor. Here is a picture taken without with the lens and adapters in question focused upon infinity. babaky I wish you good luck with the conversion! I have had four Canon f/0.95 lenses. The first I used on the excellent Canon 7, the next three went in for conversion. Only one, the last one which I kept works on any of the Leica M cameras. It's a keeper, but overall image contrast is lower than a Leica lens. Last thing - when the proper conversion has been made, releasing the lens from the M camera requires a little screwdriver, or anything to slip under the edge of the lens over the lens-release button because the lens covers the button. Edited March 16, 2015 by pico 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jankap Posted March 18, 2015 Share #6 Posted March 18, 2015 (edited) Pico, you sent 3 lenses into the conversion. Only one was successful. What went wrong with the other 2? What means conversion in this case? Does the TV version have a rangefinder mechanism? Jan I don't understand, why the throats of the mounts are chosen so narrow. The M mount is of 1950, but that of the A7 (of 2012) is not very much wider. Edited March 18, 2015 by jan_kappetijn Addition Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
spydrxx Posted March 18, 2015 Share #7 Posted March 18, 2015 Advertisement (gone after registration) When I had Ken Ruth do my conversion in the 1990s, I remember him telling me that he needed to install a "pusher" mechanism which would mate with the focusing cam of my M4, it required him to actually drill a hole into the perimeter of the glass and insert a small metal rod. He did a magnificent job...but I learned over the next year that the lens and I just didn't work well together...it was too big and significantly obscured the field of the viewfinder. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pico Posted March 19, 2015 Share #8 Posted March 19, 2015 Pico, you sent 3 lenses into the conversion. Only one was successful. What went wrong with the other 2? What means conversion in this case? Does the TV version have a rangefinder mechanism? Jan The two failures did not focus accurately. Each used a different approach to conversion. Sorry I cannot comment upon the TV version because I've never had one. spydrxx's answer is helpful. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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