Digi3 4/3 adapter

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Anyone know where I can still buy the Digi3 4/3 to R adapter?

 

I wish I didn't need the stupid thing

 

I'd rather just mount the blasted lens and deal with it

[bill]

Novoflex.

 

Regards,

 

Bill

[Paolo.Battista]

You can find adapters even from Coma.

Just search on Google "Adriano Lolli Coma" and you will find them.

I'm using adapters from Coma in order to adapt Nikon, Leitz and Zeiss (Contax/Yashica mount) to 4/3, and I find their quality quite good. Maybe not up to the Novoflex one (due to the price), but I didn't tried the Novoflexs.

 

Pay attention to the wide angle lenses, I found that the Elmarit-R 19/f:2,8 (latest version) doesn't fit in the 4/3 adapter due to different mechanical coupling (in fact the Leica original adapter was sold for lenses starting from 30 mm).

 

Best regards.

 

Paolo

[sfage]

You can find adapters even from Coma.

Just search on Google "Adriano Lolli Coma" and you will find them.

I'm using adapters from Coma in order to adapt Nikon, Leitz and Zeiss (Contax/Yashica mount) to 4/3, and I find their quality quite good. Maybe not up to the Novoflex one (due to the price), but I didn't tried the Novoflexs.

 

Pay attention to the wide angle lenses, I found that the Elmarit-R 19/f:2,8 (latest version) doesn't fit in the 4/3 adapter due to different mechanical coupling (in fact the Leica original adapter was sold for lenses starting from 30 mm).

 

Best regards.

 

Paolo

 

So, Paolo, do you find the Novoflex is a better investment for the higher price? If it's better, I will gladly pay it.

[Paolo.Battista]

No, what I was saying is that I have never tried a Novoflex adapter. I used some chip confirm adapters from other producers, but I was really not satisfied by the mechanical quality of them.

After that, I tried the Coma ones, and I find their mechanical quality quite good for the price. Up to now I have bought from them two Leica R adapters, one Nikon and one Contax/Yashica, and all of them work well.

 

Since the Novoflex one is quite more expensive, I think that maybe it can still improve the quality that I found on the Comas adapter. But, again, I have to say that I haven't found any particular problem with the Coma's adapters, so I'm not going to try the Novoflex ones.

 

The R lenses that I found to work properly with Coma 4/3 adapters are:

35 f:2 Summicron

35 f:2.8 Elmarit

50 f:2 Summicron

60 f:2.8 MACRO-Elmarit

80 f:1.4 Summilux

100 f:2.8 APO-Macro-Elmarit

135 f:2.8 Elmarit

180 f:3.4 APO-Telyt

250 f:4 Telyt (last versione, with closer focusing capabilities)

280 f:2.8 APO-Telyt (with or without the APO 1.4x Converter)

560 f:6.8 Telyt

 

Other lenses that works with Digilux 3 and the appropriate Coma 4/3 adapter:

Nikkor AI 28 f:2.8

Nikkor AIs 50 f:1,2

NIkkor AI 135 f:2.8

Nikkor AI 200 f:4

Zeiss Contax Planar 50 f:1,4

Zeiss Contax Distagon 28 f:2.8

 

NOTE: The Elmarit-R 19 f:2.8 is NOT compatible with the above Leica R to 4/3 adapter. One of the mounting brackets is too long to fit in the Coma adapter.

 

Hope it helps.

 

Best regards.

 

Paolo

[Ian Fozzard]

Anyone know where I can still buy the Digi3 4/3 to R adapter?

 

I wish I didn't need the stupid thing

 

I'd rather just mount the blasted lens and deal with it

 

Just a short and rather late note: - I have tried aftermarket (non-Leica) 4/3 adapters and found they are not very well made (too loose on the bayonet), so I went for the genuine Leica one and it works fine. Try Ffordes if you are in the UK, they sometimes have used ones available .

 

Ian F.