shel_belinkoff2 Posted March 13, 2004 Share Posted March 13, 2004 What is the longest Leica lens that will fit on the M-serieswithout a Visoflex? What of other brand lenses? What mightbe the fastest lens of 135mm or longer that will work? shel belinkoff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob F. Posted March 13, 2004 Share Posted March 13, 2004 135mm is indeed the longest lens in the M mount, currently. There was once a 200mm, used with an accessory finder. The Elmarit, at f/2.8, is the fastest Leica 135mm. It's the one with goggles, and will thus work on any M, even an M2 or M6TTL 0.58, because it utilizes the 90mm frame. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lutz Posted March 13, 2004 Share Posted March 13, 2004 Since there are SLR mount to Leica M adapters (see: www.cameraquest.com) the longest of the available brands (Nikon, Leica R, Minolta, Canon, etc.) will fit (1000mm +). No rangefinder coupling, though. ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awahlster Posted March 13, 2004 Share Posted March 13, 2004 shel, I can fit my Canon 500mm f4.5L S.S.C. on to any M mount camera by using a Canon Adapter B and a LTM to M adapter. Of course with no way to verify focus about the only place this would work well would be the Moon at f8 and smaller! Is your question what is the longer lens that you can hope to accuratly focus with the rangefinder in an M body camera? Cause that would have a very different answer. OH come to think of it my Sigma 600mm f8.0 Mirror would fit as well!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lutz Posted March 13, 2004 Share Posted March 13, 2004 Addendum - <a href="http://www.cameraquest.com/mlenses.htm">Here's the link</a> to Stephen Gandy's most exhaustive list of lenses for the Leica M.<p>Secondly, a brief research brought up that there doesn't seem to be a Minolta lens to Leica M adapter, at least not from gandy, nor a Olympus OM to Leica m adapter (and the guys from Olympus are the ones who definitely made a 1000mm lens) - so, the longest and fastest to shoot the moon seems to remain the 5.6/800 Leica R APO Telyt, apart from third party mirror lenses.<p>A last resort to break that barrier might be some weird combination of Novoflex adapters including the use of MF lenses... ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lutz Posted March 13, 2004 Share Posted March 13, 2004 On third thought: Go <a href="http://www.meade.com/catalog/etx/etx_mak.html">here</a> for the ultimate in moonquest (scroll down for info on camera adapters). Cheers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
al_kaplan1 Posted March 13, 2004 Share Posted March 13, 2004 Komura made a 200mm f/4.5 rangefinder coupled lens that came with an accessory viewfinder, but it was screw mount and required an M adapter. I wouldn't mind having a 180/4 mounted with "goggles" to use with the camera's 135 frame lines! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter_white2 Posted March 13, 2004 Share Posted March 13, 2004 What 200mm Leitz lens was made in a direct mount (either screw or bayonet)and what provision was made for accurate focusing? I'm only aware of 200mm lenses made for mounting on a Visoflex. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hans_beckert Posted March 13, 2004 Share Posted March 13, 2004 135mm. Longer lenses required Visoflex, and the longest was the 560mm Telyt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
furcafe Posted March 13, 2004 Share Posted March 13, 2004 If you "cheat" like me, & use a Contax RF-LTM adapter + LTM-M adapter, you can mount a 180/6.3 Tele-Tessar or super-rare direct-mount 180/2.8 Olympia Sonnar on a Leica M. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter_white2 Posted March 13, 2004 Share Posted March 13, 2004 "If you "cheat" like me, & use a Contax RF-LTM adapter + LTM-M adapter, you can mount a 180/6.3 Tele-Tessar or super-rare direct-mount 180/2.8 Olympia Sonnar on a Leica M." Cool. How do you focus it? If you can't get accurate focus with the lens, what's the point? I'm sure that there's some combination of adapters that would allow you to mount a Questar on an M4 without a Visoflex. So what? What would you do with it besides take a picture of it with another camera? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan flanders Posted March 13, 2004 Share Posted March 13, 2004 Tradition has it that 135 is the maximum focal length suitable for RF use. There is logic in the notion, but I am aware of successful RF coupling of a Zeiss 180 to the old Leica screw mount. It required careful and liberate focusing but it worked. For practical use however I have found that the longer lenses work more conveniently with the Visoflex. I have used them with the extension tube instead of the Visoflex, but it is a ticklish affair and fraught with disappointment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awahlster Posted March 14, 2004 Share Posted March 14, 2004 Actually the longest focal lenght you can mount to a M mount camera would be a Canon 1200mm f11.0 FL one is currently on ebay. nothing like a 34" long baseball bat mounted on the front of your little rangefinder. http://tinyurl.com/2d4g7 I guess size does matter! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roland_schmid Posted March 14, 2004 Share Posted March 14, 2004 135mm. Longer lenses required Visoflex, and the longest was the 800mm Telyt-S. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lutz Posted March 14, 2004 Share Posted March 14, 2004 <i>If you can't get accurate focus with the lens, what's the point?</i><p>Well, you can always get an external rangefinder. Try a Google picture search on "watameter" for instance. BTW, the question is put in a rather theoretical not practical way, and Shel hasn't chimed back in again to tell us if he's happy with the nature of the replies he's got so far...?! Shel, are you listening? ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
furcafe Posted March 14, 2004 Share Posted March 14, 2004 Peter, my Contax RF-LTM adapter is fully RF-coupled--I have 1 of the Orion-type copies mentioned by Stephen Gandy @ <http://cameraquest.com/adapter.htm>. -------------- ""If you "cheat" like me, & use a Contax RF-LTM adapter + LTM-M adapter, you can mount a 180/6.3 Tele-Tessar or super-rare direct-mount 180/2.8 Olympia Sonnar on a Leica M." Cool. How do you focus it? If you can't get accurate focus with the lens, what's the point? " Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael_b.1 Posted March 16, 2004 Share Posted March 16, 2004 <center> <img src="http://users.skynet.be/en/pn/m3joke.jpg"> <br> <i>it's mounted, no?</i> </center> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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