M-Adater L

[hirohhhh]

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I want to buy an adapter to mount M lenses on SL2 body and I found on B&H various options. 7artisans $35, Metabones $89, Urth $45, and then Leica $450.

Is there a difference in built quality, and any special reason I should pay 10x more for Leica adapter? I don’t mind paying if it’s worth, but if it’s just Leica brand that I’m paying here, I would rather not.

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[luigi bertolotti]

I think that there is a basic difference : the original adapter recognizes . through the 6 bit code - the M lenses (if coded, of course) ; 3rd party adapters do not (and cannot, being this a proprietary - patent protected feature) ; I think also, but having not a SL am not sure, that when, with the original adapter, the SL2 "knows" that a M lens is mounted, maybe some specific operation modes are "managed" (this probably involves flash usage - and probably is also significant for M lenses usage on CL and TL - maybe it can prevent some errors due to settings that are nonsense with M lenses... time priority exposure for instance)

In "normal" modes - manual focusing + manual or aperture priority exposure - the lens recognition of course writes the lens' type in the EXIF data of the file, and also applies lens specific corrections to the DNG file : I don't know if SL2 provides a facility to set manually M lenses, as is in recent digital M cameras.

 

Other people - SL/CL users - can be more precise on the matter; as for built quality - mechanical precision, one can be confident that the original is at top...  other makers (like Novoflex) also have a tradition of good quality (*),  but the main reason for the price difference is in the above feature... Leica original can have something that 3rd parties cannot have... of course, it's a personal decision to decide if this is worth a 10x expense... 😎

(*) I had a no good experience with Fotodiox... but it was for a really odd adapter - Zeiss Contarex lenses on M...  🙄

Edited October 31, 2021 by luigi bertolotti

[jdlaing]

2 hours ago, hirohhhh said:

I want to buy an adapter to mount M lenses on SL2 body and I found on B&H various options. 7artisans $35, Metabones $89, Urth $45, and then Leica $450.

Is there a difference in built quality, and any special reason I should pay 10x more for Leica adapter? I don’t mind paying if it’s worth, but if it’s just Leica brand that I’m paying here, I would rather not.

The Leica is by far and away the best functioning option. Folks hate spending that much money so they buy the clones. I have both the Leica and a Metabones version. The Leica wins for just the six bit code reader.

[Simone_DF]

On 10/31/2021 at 6:08 PM, hirohhhh said:

I want to buy an adapter to mount M lenses on SL2 body and I found on B&H various options. 7artisans $35, Metabones $89, Urth $45, and then Leica $450.

Is there a difference in built quality, and any special reason I should pay 10x more for Leica adapter? I don’t mind paying if it’s worth, but if it’s just Leica brand that I’m paying here, I would rather not.

If you have multiple lenses with 6 bit coding, it may be worth to invest in an original Leica adapter.

If you only have non-coded lenses, I don't think it's worth the extra $$$.

[Photoworks]

Leica adapter benefit:
with SL2 the leica adapter and 6bit coded lens you get

• Sensor stabilization
• In camera correction of distortion and vignetting in photo and video
• Metadata lens naming.

on non leica lenses and non coding lenses you would pick a similar lens from menu to get Sensor stabilization, no other correction are done in camera.

7Artisan adapter.

you can use any lens by selecting some mm lens profile to get Sensor stabilization. no correction will apply to DNG or video files. you can do some post production to achieve similar option in post for photos. 

I use this adapter with M lenses to get the raw look of the lens, The Noctilux has lots of vignetting and sometimes good to have.
The other plus is that it can overcome the limit of rangefinder minimal focus by turning the adapter. The Noctilux is 1meter.

 

All this adapters have the intensional limitation on infinity focus not where the lens arrives at the end of the focusing turn. It is a technical issue related to materials and temperatures.

Some time I will use the 7artisan adapter set the lens on infinity and then focus on the adapter to set my largest distance , once set I can alway each to infinity and know I am in rage of that focus quickly.

[ravinj]

All roads lead to Rome and in this case, Leica.

I have tried cheaper brands and nothing comes close to the build quality and fit of the Leica adapter. Not to mention lack of corrections with non-Leica adapters that is noted in one of the replies above.

Urth was so tight that I thought I would damage the lens or camera mount. Rest had some play. 

As of 11/2/2021 7:28 AM EST, I see a used one in 9 condition on B&H for a lower price, I would grab it.

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Edited November 2, 2021 by ravinj

[charlesphoto99]

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Oooh, now I wish I'd gotten a silver one for my CL (didn't even know they made them). It would make distinguishing it from the lens it's one much easier when it's, say, in the bag and/or if one is switching back and forth with an M.