I've had some crazy thoughts of trying my Voigtlander Heliar 12 mm on Canon DSLRs. It has a Leica screw mount, and I do have an adapter for Leica screw to M-bayonet. Would an adapter for Leica M to Canon EF be all I need to make this work? I know a lot of you use Leica lenses on Canon, but as little as I've paid attention they could be Leica R lenses for all I know.
Photon wrote:
(...) but as little as I've paid attention they could be Leica R lenses for all I know.
That's it. They are R-mount lenses.
The M-mount lenses are made to sit pretty close to the film/sensor. If they are positioned further away from the imagener you will not be able to focus to anything distant. What good is a 12mm macro? That's why you won't find any M-->EOS adapters.
Jonas B wrote:
That's it. They are R-mount lenses.
The M-mount lenses are made to sit pretty close to the film/sensor. If they are positioned further away from the imagener you will not be able to focus to anything distant. What good is a 12mm macro? That's why you won't find any M-->EOS adapters.
Thanks Jonas. I should have known, with no mirror needed for rangefinders and optical designs like symmetrical wide angles that take advantage of that. Oh well, it would have been fun!
Thanks for the quick answer.
Dec 28, 2008 at 07:06 PM
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The Heliar 12mm f/5.6 does come in Nikon F mount and although it is a bit drastic you can use it on a Canon camera with a Nikon F to EOS converter. Here is a page from the 16.9.net site in which they tested the 15mm f/4.5 that describes what one has to do to use the lens on a Canon camera.
The Heliar 12mm f/5.6 does come in Nikon F mount and although it is a bit drastic you can use it on a Canon camera with a Nikon F to EOS converter. Here is a page from the 16.9.net site in which they tested the 15mm f/4.5 that describes what one has to do to use the lens on a Canon camera.
Thanks for the link - interesting.
I'm not going to buy a Heliar in F mount, because I already have one in screw mount. I got it when they were relatively new, and expensive. I got a cheap Voigtlander body to go with it. It has workable metering but no viewfinder or rangefinder, which doesn't matter because the 12mm uses its own viewfinder and focusing is best done by scale.
At one point, I thought this combo would be my inducement to keep shooting some film, but I have no time for darkroom work, and scanning is slow...
I also kept my Mamiya 7, including the 43mm lens mentioned at 16-9, so I can have some fun with high quality wide angle if I can just get back into enjoying film!
If you don't have time to shoot film, let me know if you are interested in selling that Heliar 12mm.
I promise to keep that in mind, but don't hold your breath - I've held on to a lot of film gear and even darkroom equipment, because I plan to live a ridiculously long time and eventually have time to make old processes a hobby.
