UltraDan Posted August 2, 2019 Share #1 Posted August 2, 2019 Advertisement (gone after registration) Hi, newcomer here, can anyone advise if there are any problems when using a Minolta rookie lens on an m-mount camera via an adapter? Does the focus work just as it should? I have just picked up an M4-p and am in the process of deciding which summicron I would like so I want to use my Minolta MD mount glass in the meantime. Thanks in advance for any info. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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jaapv Posted August 2, 2019 Share #2 Posted August 2, 2019 Welcome https://www.novoflex.de/de/produkte/adapter/adapterfinder/adapterfinder-produkte/camera/leica-m/objectiv/37.html Your problem will be that it will be scale focusing only. There will be no rangefinder coupling. Stop down to f8 and use zone focus. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
UltraDan Posted August 3, 2019 Author Share #3 Posted August 3, 2019 Hi, thanks for this, yes, my adapter just arrived and yes the rangefinder doesn’t seem to work? So I just have to guess the focus then? Well that’s rubbish lol. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted August 3, 2019 Share #4 Posted August 3, 2019 How could it work? Only lenses designed for rangefinder use will have the cam that connects the lens to the camera rangefinder mechanism. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Photon42 Posted August 3, 2019 Share #5 Posted August 3, 2019 First lesson learnt ... Leica M is different 😂 You can guess the distance, which only works well enough with adequate settings. Landscape infinity focus, wide and especially super wides with zone focus. Closed down apertures. Get yourself a Summicron 35 as a start. Mind you, frame lines only get projected correctly with matching M lenses. Zeiss and Voigtlander produce proper alternatives, too, but maybe you want to match your camera with a Summicron of a similar period. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
spydrxx Posted August 3, 2019 Share #6 Posted August 3, 2019 Jumping ito the water before learning to swim usually has unintended consequences, as you've begun to discover. Leica rangefinders have a short flange to film distance, unlike SLRs, and their rangefinders are driven by movement of a cam in the camera body being pushed by a helical in the lens rather than the strictly visual approach of SLRs. You can mount some SLR lenses onto M bodies, but in almost all cases you have to zone focus. I did own an exception years ago...an old Tamron IF AF zoom lens which carried its own electronics and batteries for focusing...but you had to use your imagination with the M framelines to compose your images. Just get a proper Leica lens or Leica compatible LTM lens with an LTM->M adapter and begin to enjoy life. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
UltraDan Posted August 5, 2019 Author Share #7 Posted August 5, 2019 Advertisement (gone after registration) Yep thanks for the replies, just bought myself a 50mm Summicron m, that should do the trick! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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