Close Focus

[mas]

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Is there any way to achieve close focus with the 30, 35 or 45 mm S lenses? About 6"?

[ynp]

Contax 645 lenses with the tubes can.

 

 

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[dritz]

120-S plus Elpro (from the R) with 3rd party adapter.

[John McMaster]

I think the answer to the asked question is no, at least with off the shelf parts.

 

john

[mas]

I think the answer to the asked question is no, at least with off the shelf parts.

 

john

I gathered that. Thanks.

What does anybody know about using a close-up lens/filter?  Any appreciable degradation in image quality?

[John McMaster]

82mm filters and CU ones are usually quite deep, may vignette on the wide lenses. B&H only list a single CU filter, Heliopan +1, so not much effect and I would not expect anything other than some image degradation.... Perhaps, and certainly much cheaper, try a 77mm +5 with stepping ring?

 

john

[mas]

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82mm filters and CU ones are usually quite deep, may vignette on the wide lenses. B&H only list a single CU filter, Heliopan +1, so not much effect and I would not expect anything other than some image degradation.... Perhaps, and certainly much cheaper, try a 77mm +5 with stepping ring?

 

john

Won't that vignette?

If not, what about the Canon 250D on a 35mm lens? 

[John McMaster]

Almost certainly, but there are no suitable 82mm CU nor S extension tubes :-(

 

john

[mgrayson3]

A Contax 120 will go to 1:1. (I think) and it plus adapter is relatively inexpensive by S standards.

[mas]

Almost certainly, but there are no suitable 82mm CU nor S extension tubes :-(

 

john

Thanks John.  At this point, I'm of the mind to stick with D800E and old mechanical 28mm with close-focus.

Michael

[jip]

What magnification ratio are you looking for? 

[mas]

As much as possible, but I'd still like to use the same lens for urban landscape.  It's a lot to ask I know.  My 28mm for my D800E is close focus. About 5".

[Dougg]

FWIW, the Pentax-67 100mm f/4 Macro can go to 1:1 with its included closeup module. I have used this lens on my S2, one of the last 67 lenses released by Pentax, and it's excellent at any distance.

 

Doug

[sog1927]

I think the answer to the asked question is no, at least with off the shelf parts.

 

john

 

Well, at least not with off-the-shelf parts that all say "Leica" on them. The various adapters, coupled with closeup accessories and lenses from other systems, will let you get as close you want. For an extreme example:

 

V-series adapter + Hasselblad bellows + some Hasselblad extension tubes + Hasselblad RMS adapter + 16mm Zeiss Luminar will get you to 40x - if you can keep things steady.

[John McMaster]

Did anybody else read the original question? He is looking at Leica S wide angle lenses focussing that close...

 

john

[mgrayson3]

Yes, I read the question, but the answer is "no". That would make for a short and unsatisfying thread. 

 

If it were wide M lenses on, say, a Sony, then I could give a positive answer. Or simply a Q would do perfectly. But wide S lenses on an S? Nothing comes to mind.

 

--Matt