Guest NEIL-D-WILLIAMS Posted October 3, 2013 Share #1 Posted October 3, 2013 Advertisement (gone after registration) Guy’s, Is it possible to screw a Nikon lens onto a Leica M (with an adapter) and if so what is the best adapter to get? Another question if the above answer is yes what Nikon lenses can you use?.............16mm fisheye, 70/200 f2.8 blablabla:D Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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01af Posted October 3, 2013 Share #2 Posted October 3, 2013 Is it possible to screw a Nikon lens onto a Leica M (with an adapter) and if so what is the best adapter to get? Depends on which Nikon lenses you're having in mind. For Nikon F lenses, the best adapter is Novoflex LEM/NIK-NT. It can be used with all Nikon SLR lenses ever made for Nikon F bayonet, including AF lenses and including G lenses (i. e. those without aperture ring). ... what Nikon lenses can you use? ... 16 mm fisheye, 70-200/2.8 ... All of them. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest NEIL-D-WILLIAMS Posted October 3, 2013 Share #3 Posted October 3, 2013 Depends on which Nikon lenses you're having in mind. For Nikon F lenses, the best adapter is Novoflex LEM/NIK-NT. It can be used with all Nikon SLR lenses ever made for Nikon F bayonet, including AF lenses and including G lenses (i. e. those without aperture ring). All of them. Thank you Sir for the info I saw the Novoflex it was 189 euro. I also saw some on ebay for 50 bucks but I guess it will be a case of you get what you pay for. I will Google the Novoflex and see if I can find a distributor in Asia Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theodor Heinrichsohn Posted October 3, 2013 Share #4 Posted October 3, 2013 Depends on which Nikon lenses you're having in mind. For Nikon F lenses, the best adapter is Novoflex LEM/NIK-NT. It can be used with all Nikon SLR lenses ever made for Nikon F bayonet, including AF lenses and including G lenses (i. e. those without aperture ring). All of them. I purchased the Novoflex LEN/NIK adapter and it works perfectly on the Leica M240. Very well made. Teddy Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest NEIL-D-WILLIAMS Posted October 3, 2013 Share #5 Posted October 3, 2013 I purchased the Novoflex LEN/NIK adapter and it works perfectly on the Leica M240. Very well made.Teddy TeddyThat is differnt to the LEM/NIK-NT right Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karl G Posted October 3, 2013 Share #6 Posted October 3, 2013 Neil, I just ordered and should be receiving soon the Chinese cheapy. It was so cheap, I just could not resist giving it a try being @ $30 USD. In essence it is really nothing more than a short tube. I'll give feedback after I get it and check it out which should be in the next week or two. My thoughts, worse case senario, I'm out the price of a lunch or really cheap dinner. I can live with that. Best case, it will work fine for the few times I want to use my Nikon glass on the M. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
marknorton Posted October 3, 2013 Share #7 Posted October 3, 2013 Advertisement (gone after registration) I don't buy the cheap ones anymore. I bought one and it damaged my lens bayonet; fortunately, it was on an M8 and I had one "in stock" to replace it. The Novoflex ones are excellent and I would not stray further. There is an issue with the G lenses of course in that they have no aperture rings; the Novoxflex one allows you to manually stop down but it's all rather approximate and uncalibrated. As it happens my main interesting in using the adapter is to put older lenses on it like the Noct Nikkor which of course do have an aperture ring. What strikes you though is what a palaver using them is compared to the open aperture focussing and metering of a Nikon body for which they were designed. That said, I can go wider, longer, closer (but not faster) than I can with Leica's own M lenses, that's where the interest is. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theodor Heinrichsohn Posted October 3, 2013 Share #8 Posted October 3, 2013 TeddyThat is differnt to the LEM/NIK-NT right Sorry, mistyped. My silly error. It is LEM/NIK Teddy Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest NEIL-D-WILLIAMS Posted October 4, 2013 Share #9 Posted October 4, 2013 Neil, I just ordered and should be receiving soon the Chinese cheapy. It was so cheap, I just could not resist giving it a try being @ $30 USD. In essence it is really nothing more than a short tube. I'll give feedback after I get it and check it out which should be in the next week or two. My thoughts, worse case senario, I'm out the price of a lunch or really cheap dinner. I can live with that. Best case, it will work fine for the few times I want to use my Nikon glass on the M. KarlI have been thinking about what you said and it makes good sence to me. I too only really want it to try my 16mm fisheye on my M so I just ordered one of the 30 dollar adapters as well and paid extra to get it to Malaysia before my India trip..............hopefully I can get some nice Taj fisheye pictures while I am there:D Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrp Posted October 4, 2013 Share #10 Posted October 4, 2013 Check this out: LensRentals.com - There Is No Free Lunch, Episode 763: Lens Adapters But I agree, having access to an additional range of lenses (fisheye, tilt+shift, tele) is very useful. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted October 4, 2013 Share #11 Posted October 4, 2013 I was about to post the same link to lens rentals. My experience with cheap adapters has been poor. Even middle price ones like Lolli have had problems like a loose fitting bayonet. I would stick to Novoflex, which are made to very high standards from a company with a long and distinguished history in the photographic business. Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmx_2 Posted October 4, 2013 Share #12 Posted October 4, 2013 I was about to post the same link to lens rentals. My experience with cheap adapters has been poor. Even middle price ones like Lolli have had problems like a loose fitting bayonet. I would stick to Novoflex, which are made to very high standards from a company with a long and distinguished history in the photographic business. Wilson I've used a couple of different Leica R to Canon adapters in the past ranging from very cheap Chinese ones, tagotech ones and finally from cameraquest and novoflex. The Novoflex is by far the best, extremely well made, the camera quest was quite close but I had big problems with the others, one problem was that because of lack of precision I couldn't focus to infinity properly and the variations were big between the samples. Yes the Novoadapters cost money but if you intend to really make us of the lenses I would highly recommend getting proper adapters. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karl G Posted October 4, 2013 Share #13 Posted October 4, 2013 KarlI have been thinking about what you said and it makes good sence to me. I too only really want it to try my 16mm fisheye on my M so I just ordered one of the 30 dollar adapters as well and paid extra to get it to Malaysia before my India trip..............hopefully I can get some nice Taj fisheye pictures while I am there:D I just saw mine arrived at my office today, and I'll run to pick it up tonight. More to come... Another one of my thought processes was that this is really just a lark/plaything for me. I have perfectly good Nikon bodies to shoot my Nikon glass on. I really see little use, for me, to routinely using my Nikon glass on the M. If I did, I would definitely follow all the sound advice and buy a Novaflex. Lugging a perfectly good M with a monstrously large lens without AF or VR just wouldn't be my cup of tea. I have a D3X and a D3 for that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karl G Posted October 4, 2013 Share #14 Posted October 4, 2013 Neil, just got it and brought it home. Seems a bit like an inexpensive piece of kit, no surprises there. Adapter ring is metal with metal tube and feels light enough to not be brass, although I have no reference to be sure. Finish is pretty impressive given its price point. Fit is spot on regarding camera body and lens attachment. Lens attachment has about 2 degrees rotational play at full lock with no fore aft movement that would negatively effect focus. Sadly, I am disinclined to shoot as it is dark and pouring rain, but I anticipate no problems. EVF with Focus Peaking works fine, and I anticipate no trouble with focus. For the rare use I intend to put it too, for the reasons I previously stated, I think it will be fine. Perhaps not great, but thoroughly workable A pic or two to follow when nature cooperates, supposed to pour like a horse whizzing tomorrow, but we'll see. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karl G Posted October 6, 2013 Share #15 Posted October 6, 2013 Example of Leica M with adapter and old Sigma Zoom 28-70 2.8 HSM Nikon Mount: Fall Tree Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest NEIL-D-WILLIAMS Posted October 7, 2013 Share #16 Posted October 7, 2013 Example of Leica M with adapter and old Sigma Zoom 28-70 2.8 HSM Nikon Mount: Fall Tree Fantastic Karl..............I am looking forward to screwing my 400mm f4 onto the M:D Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tanks Posted October 8, 2013 Share #17 Posted October 8, 2013 Question: seeing that the M would have no idea of the aperture would one meter manually using a light meter when adapters are used? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karl G Posted October 8, 2013 Share #18 Posted October 8, 2013 Tanks, I just set the metering to advanced which reads off the sensor in the M and it worked great. Have not tried the other modes but I use this metering mode the most anyway. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted October 8, 2013 Share #19 Posted October 8, 2013 Question: seeing that the M would have no idea of the aperture would one meter manually using a light meter when adapters are used? The camera has no idea from the lens of the aperture set on any lens mounted on an M. Other than the 6 bit code, the M mount is dumb/passive. The TTL and sensor advanced metering work just fine with any lens adapter. The only time you used to have to be careful was with a Visoflex, where you had to use the early mirror lift setting to get an exposure reading. Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tanks Posted October 9, 2013 Share #20 Posted October 9, 2013 Thanks. I was always under the impression that somehow the camera knew the aperture setting in order to meter in A mode (or even the moving dots in view finder). and set the shutter speed. My reasoning was that I always set the aperture or the speed at a given ISO for the light meters, so thought the camera meter worked the same way. I guess with TTL metering and adjusting to 18% grey, the camera meter just works with the light falling on the sensor and indicates the exposure accordingly in manual (where one can adjust speed or aperture) or in A mode where the camera just modifies the shutter speed. Once I actually start thinking about it, it is clear how it works. Never really gave it much thought before you guys' explanations. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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