algaesnaps Posted August 30, 2015 Share #1 Posted August 30, 2015 Advertisement (gone after registration) i am very successfully using both a Leitz Elmar-M 9.0cm and Elmar 13.5cm on my Leica M8. As an M fit 180mm Elmarit or telyt lens is not available for the M8 I am thinking of using a 'R' fit Elmarit or Elmar-R lens. Manual focusing will not be a problem as I nearly always use my Telephoto lenses on infinity and I use a Tewe Zoom 35-200 zoom viewfinder on the hot shoe. A 180mm lens will give me an approximate magnification of 235mm with the 1.3 crop factor. I would be very interested in any comments or advice if anyone on the forum has used an R lens with adapter on their M8. many thanks! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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david strachan Posted August 31, 2015 Share #2 Posted August 31, 2015 Sounds good Algaesnaps. The Tewe Finder is a good idea...I've got one too, super. If you get your tube adapter to be the same length as a mechanical Visoflex ...it should all work...perhaps a very nice Moon lens. cheers Dave S 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
fotograf-e Posted September 1, 2015 Share #3 Posted September 1, 2015 I tried with a 50mm summicron R. Focusing patch doesn't work so I estimate the distance Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lct Posted September 1, 2015 Share #4 Posted September 1, 2015 [...] If you get your tube adapter to be the same length as a mechanical Visoflex ...it should all work... [...] It would work with a lens for Visoflex but not with an R lens i'm afraid but the R-Adapter M # 14642 should fit normally. I have not mine with me here so i cannot check sorry. http://en.leica-camera.com/Photography/Leica-M/Technical-Equipment/Ergonomics/R-Adapter-M Leica R Adapter to M 14642 Lens Adapter 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
luigi bertolotti Posted September 1, 2015 Share #5 Posted September 1, 2015 (edited) Why exactly a 180 ? I ask because it's quite easy to find a Telyt 200 f4 for Visoflex (good and not costly lens, more compact than some 180s for R, not to speak of the 180 2,8 for Visoflex, which I have... a superheavy item... ) : with Telyt 200, you can use your Tewe finder, and mount the lens directly on your M8 with an intermediate tube (if Leitz, TXBOO, or TZOON/TZFOO with usual S/M adapters ; personally, I use the Novoflex LEM/VIS... but with it you must add an OUBIO ring). The above Leitz adapters aren't rare nor costly, in general. Of course, focusing under infinity is a problem with M8... Visoflex is defacto mandatory in case. Edited September 1, 2015 by luigi bertolotti Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 1, 2015 Share #6 Posted September 1, 2015 ... It would work with a lens for Visoflex ... Perhaps you should have a look at http://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/110315-the-tele-elmarit-28180-one-of-the-very-few/ Looking through a Tele-Elmarit 2.8-180mm by a Visoflex is great, but this lens is very rare, expensive and heavy. A tripod is recomended and there are no frames on the visoflex for the 1.33x crop factor of the M8. For hand held photos I better take an Elmarit 2.8-135mm together with Leica 1.25x Viewfinder Magnifier 12004 in front of the viewfinder. A stronger telephoto effect of 180mm is followed in the image processing program. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lct Posted September 1, 2015 Share #7 Posted September 1, 2015 Advertisement (gone after registration) The Elmarit-M 135/2.8 has yet a 1.5x magnifier in the form of goggles making part of the lens. Works fine on the M8 at all apertures if you shoot at infinity. An additional magnifier like that suggested by mnutzer above can be useful if you intend to shoot at closer distances below f/4. Beware that the view in the viewfinder is very small though due to the goggles. Here with the M8.2: https://lctphot.smugmug.com/Other/samples/i-C767Rq9/0/X3/L1001130c1si-X3.jpg Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
algaesnaps Posted September 1, 2015 Author Share #8 Posted September 1, 2015 Many thanks for all your very helpful replies concerning this topic and I have found everything concerning the use of the Elmarit-R 180 with the M8 very helpful. My idea is to keep my photographic equipment weight to an absolute mininum hence the use of the M8, with the R adapter and the superb but lighter weight Elmarit-R 180mm produced from 1980 (sometimes with an 'R' 2X Adapter) because I am nearly always photographing fast moving jet airplanes. Focusing does not matter as the lens needs to be used on infinity. Having been a Rangefinder user for over 50 years, I am finding the Leica M8 superb with the digital quality outshining my M film cameras loaded with either TriX or HP5, I use my M8 at 320 ISO for virtually all my telephoto photography. For info, I also have a full frame Canon 5D Mark II fitted with a 70-300 lens and can say that although the M8 is only a 10 megapixel camera and used with the Elmar-M lenses with the UV IR filters, the optical and image quality is just so much better and more satisfying than with my Canon. Any further experiences using R lenses on M cameras would be very interesting and helpful to hear. Many thanks again. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tobey bilek Posted September 3, 2015 Share #9 Posted September 3, 2015 works with visoflex which you mask down a little. I would not screw around with a finder. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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