spoupard wrote: GeorgeBo wrote:
No pretty flowers, vivid landscape or action street photos in this post.
Just good old hardware!
I am planning on primarily using Nikon S mount lenses adapted to my Z fc. But since they were designed for use on the Nikon S rangefinders with the additional helicoid on the camera, the focus throw on the lens itself was a little too loose for my liking adapted to the Z fc.
So I decided to put thicker grease on the lens helicoids. While I had them apart I decided to give it a good CLA.
Thought you may like to see the internals of one of these old classics.
The one disassembled is the 3.5cm f/2.5. The one mounted on the Z fc is the 2.8cm f/3.5. CLA already finished on that one.
Dust free, clear optics and focus as smooth as butter. They will definitely outlast me
Shot with the Df and 50mm f/1.8 Ais
George
George,
What are you using to adapt S-mount lenses to Z-mount? Can you mount the internal mount lenses, or just external mount? I have a couple of S-mounts that I would like to try on my Z5, both internal and external mount.
Thanks,
Scott
Hi Scott,
In the image in the previous post, I am using a Rayqual (Kindai) Nikon S to Z adapter. Made in Japan, great quality. I have switched all my adapters to Rayqual. Even for Pentax medium format lenses to my Fuji 50S.
But my $.02 is ignore the eBay sales for them and go straight to Japan Hobby Tools. Much less the price of eBay sellers and faster shipping to the US than even some US sellers. That is where I get most of my tools and supplies (grease, spanners, camera leather, etc.) *just a happy customer
The S adapter is only for external bayonet mount. It does not have a helicoid for the internal mount 50mm lenses. For those I use an Amedeo Nikon S (internal) to Leica M adapter on a Leica M to Z mount. The double adapter has zero issues for me. I am not sure if Amedeo is making them any longer. He used to be based in south Florida I think and made them in batches. I picked one up a number of years ago. (added a picture below with this combo)
Here is the link to the Japan Hobby Tool site for the S to Z adapter.
In another plug for the Rayqual adapters, they have a rear baffle that shields the lens contacts on the camera body and it prevents stray light from bouncing around internally. In theory anyway. But I did notice a difference when adapting my Nikkor (Bronica) medium format lenses on the Fuji.
http://www.rayqual.com (If you use Chrome and Google Translate, you can get a good view in english)
Again, this is my experience only. YMMV.
** one thing to note on the Amedeo adapter... The 3.5cm f/1.8 lens will not fit. The rear element is too large in diameter to fit internally to the adapter because of the focus helicoid.
George
*** Updated to include an image with the double adapter combo.
spoupard wrote: GeorgeBo wrote:
No pretty flowers, vivid landscape or action street photos in this post.
Just good old hardware!
I am planning on primarily using Nikon S mount lenses adapted to my Z fc. But since they were designed for use on the Nikon S rangefinders with the additional helicoid on the camera, the focus throw on the lens itself was a little too loose for my liking adapted to the Z fc.
So I decided to put thicker grease on the lens helicoids. While I had them apart I decided to give it a good CLA.
Thought you may like to see the internals of one of these old classics.
The one disassembled is the 3.5cm f/2.5. The one mounted on the Z fc is the 2.8cm f/3.5. CLA already finished on that one.
Dust free, clear optics and focus as smooth as butter. They will definitely outlast me
Shot with the Df and 50mm f/1.8 Ais
George
George,
What are you using to adapt S-mount lenses to Z-mount? Can you mount the internal mount lenses, or just external mount? I have a couple of S-mounts that I would like to try on my Z5, both internal and external mount.
Thanks,
Scott
Hi Scott,
In the image in the previous post, I am using a Rayqual (Kindai) Nikon S to Z adapter. Made in Japan, great quality. I have switched all my adapters to Rayqual. Even for Pentax medium format lenses to my Fuji 50S.
But my $.02 is ignore the eBay sales for them and go straight to Japan Hobby Tools. Much less the price of eBay sellers and faster shipping to the US than even some US sellers. That is where I get most of my tools and supplies (grease, spanners, camera leather, etc.) *just a happy customer
The S adapter is only for external bayonet mount. It does not have a helicoid for the internal mount 50mm lenses. For those I use an Amedeo Nikon S (internal) to Leica M adapter on a Leica M to Z mount. The double adapter has zero issues for me. I am not sure if Amedeo is making them any longer. He used to be based in south Florida I think and made them in batches. I picked one up a number of years ago. (added a picture below with this combo)
Here is the link to the Japan Hobby Tool site for the S to Z adapter.
In another plug for the Rayqual adapters, they have a rear baffle that shields the lens contacts on the camera body and I prevents stray light from bouncing around internally. In theory anyway. But I did notice a difference when adapting my Nikkor (Bronica) medium format lenses on the Fuji.
http://www.rayqual.com (If you use Chrome and Google Translate, you can get a good view in english)
Again, this is my experience only. YMMV.
** one thing to note on the Amedeo adapter... The 3.5cm f/1.8 lens will not fit. The rear element is too large in diameter to fit internally to the adapter because of the focus helicoid.
George
*** Updated to include an image with the double adapter combo.
spoupard wrote: GeorgeBo wrote:
No pretty flowers, vivid landscape or action street photos in this post.
Just good old hardware!
I am planning on primarily using Nikon S mount lenses adapted to my Z fc. But since they were designed for use on the Nikon S rangefinders with the additional helicoid on the camera, the focus throw on the lens itself was a little too loose for my liking adapted to the Z fc.
So I decided to put thicker grease on the lens helicoids. While I had them apart I decided to give it a good CLA.
Thought you may like to see the internals of one of these old classics.
The one disassembled is the 3.5cm f/2.5. The one mounted on the Z fc is the 2.8cm f/3.5. CLA already finished on that one.
Dust free, clear optics and focus as smooth as butter. They will definitely outlast me
Shot with the Df and 50mm f/1.8 Ais
George
George,
What are you using to adapt S-mount lenses to Z-mount? Can you mount the internal mount lenses, or just external mount? I have a couple of S-mounts that I would like to try on my Z5, both internal and external mount.
Thanks,
Scott
Hi Scott,
In the image in the previous post, I am using a Rayqual (Kindai) adapter. Made in Japan, great quality. I have switched all my adapters to Rayqual. Even for Pentax medium format lenses to my Fuji 50S.
But my $.02 is ignore the eBay sales for them and go straight to Japan Hobby Tools. Much less the price of eBay sellers and faster shipping to the US than even some US sellers. That is where I get most of my tools and supplies (grease, spanners, camera leather, etc.) *just a happy customer
The S adapter is only for external bayonet mount. It does not have a helicoid for the internal mount 50mm lenses. For those I use an Amedeo Nikon S (internal) to Leica M adapter on a Leica M to Z mount. The double adapter has zero issues for me. I am not sure if Amedeo is making them any longer. He used to be based in south Florida I think and made them in batches. I picked one up a number of years ago. (added a picture below with this combo)
Here is the link to the Japan Hobby Tool site for the S to Z adapter.
In another plug for the Rayqual adapters, they have a rear baffle that shields the lens contacts on the camera body and I prevents stray light from bouncing around internally. In theory anyway. But I did notice a difference when adapting my Nikkor (Bronica) medium format lenses on the Fuji.
http://www.rayqual.com (If you use Chrome and Google Translate, you can get a good view in english)
Again, this is my experience only. YMMV.
** one thing to note on the Amedeo adapter... The 3.5cm f/1.8 lens will not fit. The rear element is too large in diameter to fit internally to the adapter because of the focus helicoid.
George
*** Updated to include an image with the double adapter combo.
spoupard wrote: GeorgeBo wrote:
No pretty flowers, vivid landscape or action street photos in this post.
Just good old hardware!
I am planning on primarily using Nikon S mount lenses adapted to my Z fc. But since they were designed for use on the Nikon S rangefinders with the additional helicoid on the camera, the focus throw on the lens itself was a little too loose for my liking adapted to the Z fc.
So I decided to put thicker grease on the lens helicoids. While I had them apart I decided to give it a good CLA.
Thought you may like to see the internals of one of these old classics.
The one disassembled is the 3.5cm f/2.5. The one mounted on the Z fc is the 2.8cm f/3.5. CLA already finished on that one.
Dust free, clear optics and focus as smooth as butter. They will definitely outlast me
Shot with the Df and 50mm f/1.8 Ais
George
George,
What are you using to adapt S-mount lenses to Z-mount? Can you mount the internal mount lenses, or just external mount? I have a couple of S-mounts that I would like to try on my Z5, both internal and external mount.
Thanks,
Scott
Hi Scott,
In the shot above, I am using a Rayqual (Kindai) adapter. Made in Japan, great quality. I have switched all my adapters to Rayqual. Even for Pentax medium format lenses to my Fuji 50S.
But my $.02 is ignore the eBay sales for them and go straight to Japan Hobby Tools. Much less the price of eBay sellers and faster shipping to the US than even some US sellers. That is where I get most of my tools and supplies (grease, spanners, camera leather, etc.) *just a happy customer
The S adapter is only for external bayonet mount. It does not have a helicoid for the internal mount 50mm lenses. For those I use an Amedeo Nikon S (internal) to Leica M adapter on a Leica M to Z mount. The double adapter has zero issues for me. I am not sure if Amedeo is making them any longer. He used to be based in south Florida I think and made them in batches. I picked one up a number of years ago. (added a picture below with this combo)
Here is the link to the Japan Hobby Tool site for the S to Z adapter.
In another plug for the Rayqual adapters, they have a rear baffle that shields the lens contacts on the camera body and I prevents stray light from bouncing around internally. In theory anyway. But I did notice a difference when adapting my Nikkor (Bronica) medium format lenses on the Fuji.
http://www.rayqual.com (If you use Chrome and Google Translate, you can get a good view in english)
Again, this is my experience only. YMMV.
** one thing to note on the Amedeo adapter... The 3.5cm f/1.8 lens will not fit. The rear element is too large in diameter to fit internally to the adapter because of the focus helicoid.
George
*** Updated to include an image with the double adapter combo.
spoupard wrote: GeorgeBo wrote:
No pretty flowers, vivid landscape or action street photos in this post.
Just good old hardware!
I am planning on primarily using Nikon S mount lenses adapted to my Z fc. But since they were designed for use on the Nikon S rangefinders with the additional helicoid on the camera, the focus throw on the lens itself was a little too loose for my liking adapted to the Z fc.
So I decided to put thicker grease on the lens helicoids. While I had them apart I decided to give it a good CLA.
Thought you may like to see the internals of one of these old classics.
The one disassembled is the 3.5cm f/2.5. The one mounted on the Z fc is the 2.8cm f/3.5. CLA already finished on that one.
Dust free, clear optics and focus as smooth as butter. They will definitely outlast me
Shot with the Df and 50mm f/1.8 Ais
George
George,
What are you using to adapt S-mount lenses to Z-mount? Can you mount the internal mount lenses, or just external mount? I have a couple of S-mounts that I would like to try on my Z5, both internal and external mount.
Thanks,
Scott
Hi Scott,
In the shot above, I am using a Rayqual (Kindai) adapter. Made in Japan, great quality. I have switched all my adapters to Rayqual. Even for Pentax medium format lenses to my Fuji 50S.
But my $.02 is ignore the eBay sales for them and go straight to Japan Hobby Tools. Much less the price of eBay sellers and faster shipping to the US than even some US sellers. That is where I get most of my tools and supplies (grease, spanners, camera leather, etc.) *just a happy customer
The S adapter is only for external bayonet mount. It does not have a helicoid for the internal mount 50mm lenses. For those I use an Amedeo Nikon S (internal) to Leica M adapter on a Leica M to Z mount. The double adapter has zero issues for me. I am not sure if Amedeo is making them any longer. He used to be based in south Florida I think and made them in batches. I picked one up a number of years ago.
Here is the link to the Japan Hobby Tool site for the S to Z adapter.
In another plug for the Rayqual adapters, they have a rear baffle that shields the lens contacts on the camera body and I prevents stray light from bouncing around internally. In theory anyway. But I did notice a difference when adapting my Nikkor (Bronica) medium format lenses on the Fuji.
http://www.rayqual.com (If you use Chrome and Google Translate, you can get a good view in english)
Again, this is my experience only. YMMV.
** one thing to note on the Amedeo adapter... The 3.5cm f/1.8 lens will not fit. The rear element is too large in diameter to fit internally to the adapter because of the focus helicoid.
spoupard wrote: GeorgeBo wrote:
No pretty flowers, vivid landscape or action street photos in this post.
Just good old hardware!
I am planning on primarily using Nikon S mount lenses adapted to my Z fc. But since they were designed for use on the Nikon S rangefinders with the additional helicoid on the camera, the focus throw on the lens itself was a little too loose for my liking adapted to the Z fc.
So I decided to put thicker grease on the lens helicoids. While I had them apart I decided to give it a good CLA.
Thought you may like to see the internals of one of these old classics.
The one disassembled is the 3.5cm f/2.5. The one mounted on the Z fc is the 2.8cm f/3.5. CLA already finished on that one.
Dust free, clear optics and focus as smooth as butter. They will definitely outlast me
Shot with the Df and 50mm f/1.8 Ais
George
George,
What are you using to adapt S-mount lenses to Z-mount? Can you mount the internal mount lenses, or just external mount? I have a couple of S-mounts that I would like to try on my Z5, both internal and external mount.
Thanks,
Scott
Hi Scott,
In the shot above, I am using a Rayqual (Kindai) adapter. Made in Japan, great quality. I have switched all my adapters to Rayqual. Even for Pentax medium format lenses to my Fuji 50S.
But my $.02 is ignore the eBay sales for them and go straight to Japan Hobby Tools. Much less the price of eBay sellers and faster shipping to the US than even some US sellers. That is where I get most of my tools and supplies (grease, spanners, camera leather, etc.) *just a happy customer
The S adapter is only for external bayonet mount. It does not have a helicoid for the internal mount 50mm lenses. For those I use an Amedeo Nikon S (internal) to Leica M adapter on a Leica M to Z mount. The double adapter has zero issues for me. I am not sure if Amedeo is making them any longer. He used to be based in south Florida I think and made them in batches. I picked one up a number of years ago.
Here is the link to the Japan Hobby Tool site for the S to Z adapter.
In another plug for the Rayqual adapters, they have a rear baffle that shields the lens contacts on the camera body and I prevents stray light from bouncing around internally. In theory anyway. But I did notice a difference when adapting my Nikkor (Bronica) medium format lenses on the Fuji.
Again, this is my experience only. YMMV.
** one thing to note on the Amedeo adapter... The 3.5cm f/1.8 lens will not fit. The rear element is too large in diameter to fit internally to the adapter because of the focus helicoid.
