M-adapter L + R-adapter M or Urth R-adapter L

[Stephencdean]

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Hello, I have. CL, which I use with M lenses and Leica m-adapter L. I want to mount a 50mm f2 R lens on the camera, but cannot decide whether to get a Leica R-adapter M and mount that on my existing m-adapter L or buy an URTH r-adapter L for £45. The Leica r-adapter L is very expensive £690 in UK. There must be more r-adapter M’s about as they are available for good prices used. 

I don’t need any of the electronics as manually focus M or R lenses on the CL with aperture priority. 
 

does anyone have any experience of daisy chaining adapters? Or should I go for the URTH? 

[M.piras]

I have both using on CL and SL2 myvexperience with Urth was good with R2L but completely bad for M2L really bad tollerance and very sharp metal riskying to scratch the camera mount.

so it is a 50/50 if you have possibility to give back in case of bas tollerance it is surely a good price. If you program to use M coded lenses, instead go on original leica adapter.

[ramarren]

I have been stacking the M Adapter L with the R Adapter M since 2015 (both with SL and CL bodies). Works perfectly on the CL, allows you to manually set the lens profile and have the lens information in EXIF, and allows the control dials to operate for focus magnification assist. The R Adapter M has the additional benefit of having a removable tripod foot of a reasonable size, which helps balance the camera properly on a tripod with the largish R-mount lenses. 

The only negative I've found in use with the two-adapter stack was with the SL body. There, with focal lengths longer than 200mm or when doing high magnification macro, the relatively small M-mount diameter would shade the outer edges of the FF format sensor. This never happens with the smaller APS-C format CL body. 

I've tried two other alternative mount to L-mount adapters and returned both of them for poor fit and/or poor finish. The better solution for those other mounts onto the CL is to use the M Adapter L on the camera and use an "XX Adapter M" of whatever description on that. This again preserves good use of the control dials and lets you set either an alternative M mount lens profile or "Unknown". 

G

[Stephencdean]

1 hour ago, ramarren said:

I have been stacking the M Adapter L with the R Adapter M since 2015 (both with SL and CL bodies). Works perfectly on the CL, allows you to manually set the lens profile and have the lens information in EXIF, and allows the control dials to operate for focus magnification assist. The R Adapter M has the additional benefit of having a removable tripod foot of a reasonable size, which helps balance the camera properly on a tripod with the largish R-mount lenses. 

The only negative I've found in use with the two-adapter stack was with the SL body. There, with focal lengths longer than 200mm or when doing high magnification macro, the relatively small M-mount diameter would shade the outer edges of the FF format sensor. This never happens with the smaller APS-C format CL body. 

I've tried two other alternative mount to L-mount adapters and returned both of them for poor fit and/or poor finish. The better solution for those other mounts onto the CL is to use the M Adapter L on the camera and use an "XX Adapter M" of whatever description on that. This again preserves good use of the control dials and lets you set either an alternative M mount lens profile or "Unknown". 

G

Thanks for the information. I was slightly favouring the Leica to Leica stacking. You have confirmed that. Better get looking for that R-adapter M now!