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genji wrote:
DavidBM wrote:
genji wrote:
Actually, it\'s not like any other Nikon G adapter. As I said in my post, \"the Leicaist Nikon G to Leica M adapter has no aperture control ring\", which is obvious when one looks at pictures of the adapter. There can\'t be \"a ring to move the aperture lever in Nikon G lenses\" because there is not enough depth in the adapter to include such a ring. Which would appear to make the Leicaist Nikon G to Leica M adapter extremely inconvenient to use with the TAP. The same holds true for the Leicaist Canon EF to Leica M adapter. Viva lenses with aperture rings.
Hmm. This Leicaist (Nik(G)-L/M) Nikon G adapter looks exactly the same as the Leicaist Nik-L/M I have. Except for the letter G.
The one I have is of course fine for any Nikon mount lens with an aperture lens (such as Zeiss ZF or older Nikons).
But what is the difference between the one I have and the new one? I though the only relevant difference between a G adapter and one that isn\'t sold for G is that it would have an aperture control). Maybe Leicaist just changed the name on the adapter, without quite realising what it meant?? But maybe not, I\'m don\'t have a Nikon history...
As you suggest, the only difference between the adapters seems to be the name: Nik-L/M vs Nik(G)-L/M. Colour me cynical but I find it difficult to believe that Leicaist changed the name without realising what they were doing, given that the G designation specifically refers to Nikon F mount lenses without an aperture ring. Since the Techart PRO shop lists Leicaist adapters for 17 different mounts, surely it\'s unlikely that Leicaist doesn\'t understand the variations in the Nikon F mount. On the other hand, one product shot shows a Nikon AI-S lens (with an aperture ring) mounted on the G adapter.
Techart / eBay sellers charge $10 / $12.50 more for the Nik(G)-L/M adapter than the Nik-L/M model so there\'s at least one thing we can be sure about: you\'re paying a premium for that missing aperture control ring.
I was wrong. I should have looked at the photographs of the adapter more carefully. As jonrock points out in his later post (below), the Leicaist Nik(G)-L/M adapter does have an aperture control mechanism: rotating the adapter itself activates a bar that moves the aperture lever in Nikon G lenses.
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