Very interesting. Beautiful shallow depth of field shots. I really love the Chinon 55mm f1.7 lens l purchased pretty much straight after your video, so thanks.
What a tiny little lens!!! Great conversion and really handy that the minimum focusing distance is better once converted, I find those long minimum distances frustrating at times if I'm only carrying one lens. Love your videos, cheers for making them.
Super small right?! I feel the same way when it comes to MFD's on some vintage lenses. Especially those rangefinders with their super long 90cm MFD! But these conversions basically turns them into pseudo-macro lenses. And some of them perform so well at close distances! Thank you so much! Glad to hear that you are enjoying the videos.
@@VintageOptiks Do you find that these tiny little lenses (whether this older one or the newer one from the Ricoh Autoshot) have enough depth of field for 3D subjects like flowers and say larger insects? or are they just OK for paper thin items? Other than newer ones being multicoated - do newer seventies lenses resolve detail better than fifties lenses?
@@manob7 They definitely have enough depth of field for flowers and large insects. I think it's harder to generalize when it comes to resolving power simply based on the year the lens was made. I think the optical formula and the precision during manufacturing have more to do with the ability of a lens to resolve detail, compared to which year it was made. There were some amazing lenses made in the fifties, and some not so great ones from the seventies. :)
Just finished salvaging this from a dead Konica III; since the body was beyond repair, I went ahead and opened up the shutter and removed the leaves so it's no longer functional. My model must have been slightly different than yours, as it doesn't have the same aperture scale, and the small silver pin that stops the aperture when it's fully stopped down was MUCH longer on mine (so long it prevented even beginning to screw on a mount adapter), so it also had to be removed. My S/N was in the 373XXXX range, fwiw. I'm adapting to a Nikon Z body and unfortunately haven't been able to figure out an DIY adapter stack that gets me infinity focus, since the original flange distance seems to be a good bit shorter than that on the standard m42 interchangable lens bodies. In the meantime I'm having fun shooting my dog up-close :D Thanks for the inspiration to do this project!
You are welcome!! I'm always happy to hear from people who are adapting fixed lenses to their digital cameras!! Yeah if anything is in the way of the adapter I usually remove it as well. As long as it's not something important of course. :) Sorry that you were not able to reach infinity on Nikon Z. Hope you find some solution soon. But I bet it's fun to shoot close ups! :) Take care and enjoy this awesome little lens!
That’s awesome you have the Konica III. Definitely use it with film if it’s working properly. It’s a gorgeous camera with a superb lens! Thanks for subscribing.
A cheap alternative if you like the focal length of this lens, is the minolta 45mm f2. Is cheap as hell, easy to adapt, and it's a great performer. Not so well built as the Konica, but nice nonetheless.
Yeah I am excited to try to Minolta version at some point. I currently have the Rokkor PF 45mm f1.8 from Minolta 7s, which I need to figure out how to adapt at some point. So many lenses, so little time :)
@@VintageOptiks I happen to have disassembled a Hi-matic 9 in order to fix a loose lens, you can get to the lens retainer ring from behind, it has just a plastic cover, after removing it, all the the brass goodness is there. You will have to remove the front ring to remove the cables of the light meter before doing anything. Everything is fairly modular, the shutter and rangefinder are connected via sprung levers. Good luck!
Looks like a great lens. I haven't adapted this specific lens, but I have some of the later Konica rangefinder lenses adapted: Auto S2, Auto S1.6, Auto S3. The Auto S2 and S1.6 can be adapted in the exact same way as the one in this video. Konica lenses are some of the easiest to adapt.
Cvitan Grguricin Yeah it’s an awesome little lens! I’ve adapted almost every Konica rangefinder lens I can get my hands on. 😬 As you mentioned they are super easy to adapt and their quality is fantastic!! I’m a huge Konica fan.
@@VintageOptiks After adapting a Yashica Lynx14E lens, these Konicas are a walk in the park. Still struggling with the Lynx 14E lens, the aperture lever keeps on slipping from the thin metal retainer fingers because aperture ring is kind of hard to turn. Sorry for the OT subject.
I just got a copy of Konica III, notice the shutter release mechanism broken, open up saw some spring come out, at last I cant fix it so I removed all the shutter blades. Now waiting for the m25 to m42 ring to reach me.
@@TenchiLoh Here is a link to the one I purchased. www.ebay.com/itm/M25-x0-5-For-Rodenstock-Schneider-Camera-Lens-to-male-M42-X1-adapter-w-Flange-/322898970850?_trksid=p2349624.m46890.l49292
Thanks for the heads up about this lens. It looks like a winner. I noticed at the end of the video that there is a ring between the 25-42 adapter and the lens to cover the gap. What did you use to do that? Can’t wait to get this lens.
You are welcome! Actually I did not use any ring to cover the gap. Maybe it looks like it in the video but there is nothing else. All I used were the 2 parts which I showed in the video (adapter and the helicoid) and it works great. Hope you’ll enjoy it if you end up adapting it. Cheers!
Excellent video. Do you plan on doing any of the Petri Orikkor rangefinders? I have a feeling those might be outstanding given the pedigree of their regular Orikkor lenses from the 50s.
Thank you! I would love to try some of the Orrikor lenses from the early Petri rangefinders, but I still haven’t found an affordable camera that I can take apart. I do have a Petri ES auto with the Petri 40mm f1.7 that I need to adapt at some point. I have so many lenses waiting for me, but hopefully I can put together a Petri lens video in the near future. Take care.
Great video, I have one of these lenses on the way, and I plan to have some fun tearing it apart! lol Can you suggest a focusing helicoid to adapt this to a Fuji x mount? Maybe walk through the math to get the focus range correct. I know rangefinder lenses have a different flange focal distance than regular slr/dslr lenses. Thanks! Love your videos!
Thank you. That's great you want to adapt this excellent little lens!! I was looking all over the Internet for Fuji X mount solutions this morning, but I can't really find a helicoid that makes sense. The reason why I adapt everything to Sony is because there are so many parts and helicoids available for Sony E mount. Sorry, I wish I can help. I'll keep looking and if I stumble upon something I'll let you know.
@@VintageOptiks I had the same problem. I have a m39 to Fuji x adapter, I bought when I got my Russian rangefinder lenses, maybe there's an m42 - m39 focusing helicoid. I watched a video about adapting projection lenses and there was a little information about finding the right focal distance, if I find out anything I'll post it here. In other news, yesterday I picked up an older Konishiroku 135mm f3.5 preset lens with 12 aperture blades in great condition, can't wait to give it a try!
@@ThatsTacky Yeah, it gets tricky when it comes to Fuji X mount. Don't know why they don't make the same parts for Fuji. Hopefully it will get better in the future, so all those Fuji users can try these awesome lenses. That's great you got the older Konica 135mm f3.5! Enjoy it!! Their lenses are amazing! I have the later Konica 135mm f3.2 which is excellent. Need to review it at some point. Take care.
It looks like there are two m25 thread gauges on the m25 to m42 adapters. One appears to be a .5 thread and another is a .75 thread on the m25 end of the adapter. Which one of these will I need for this project?
Hi, awesome video, thank you for sharing like this lens is godly, the Konica Hexanon AR 57mm 1.4 compares, but does surpass. Huge QUESTIIION: Will a....... M25 to M42 adapter~ to a m42 to m42 helicoid~ to a m42 to canon ef adapter~ WORK?
Hi, and Thank You!! This Konica is definitely a gem! You can adapt it to Canon in the way you described but the only issue is reaching infinity. The problem with Canon DSLR's is their short flange focal distance. So reaching infinity might be an issue with this set up.
Oh, could you do a video on how to get the best results from a Helios 44 lens.....ie the famous swirl. I purchased one and l have to say that compared to the Pentacon 50mm f1.8 & the Chinon lens, l have been a little underwhelmed by it.......unless it's just my copy.
Diane Cotton Yeah I have two Helios 44 lenses that I need to review in the future. The thing about the swirl is all about the distance between you, your subject and your background. You’ll have to experiment and find the sweet spot. Sorry to hear that you are not too thrilled with your copy of the Helios. There are a lot of different version and also quality management wasn’t very strict. So there are definitely some bad apples out there.
Hello! It's the 25mm x 0.5mm. I just updated the link in the description of the video. You can follow that, and it will take you to the correct adapter on eBay. Cheers.
I bought this exact camera and lens but mine was different after I got it outside the camera. I still jammed the shutter on the lens with a paper clip so it stayed open. I had a large screw holding the aperture ring on the rear in. Had to remove that in order to fit the flange adapter on the back. Problem is my won’t focus b/c it needs the focus ring off of the camera to advance the lens forward and backward. Such a bummer. Not sure I will be able to use this lens unless I somehow remove the lens housing off the camera and reattach it to the lens itself so I can make it advance up and down in order to focus. Any tips? Maybe mine was a different model that yours.
Hi! Not to worry. My lens also came out without the focusing mechanism. In the first part of the video I show that besides the M25 to M42 adapter I also use a 17-31mm focusing helicoid. This helicoid is what you need in order to focus. Once you screw the adapter on the back of the lens, next screw that to the focusing helicoid and you are ready to attach the lens to your camera. Not sure what camera are you planning on using with this lens, but I have a link for the helicoid I use in the description of the video. The one I use is for Sony E mount. It’s very easy to find on eBay. Not sure if they make it in other camera mounts. Hope this helps.
@@VintageOptiks I also wonder if I’ll still get infinity with the 17-31mm since the M42 to Leica M helicoid I found sticks out more than the NEX helicoid you have. Always fun doing the DIY! Haha
Yeah I’m not sure if you’ll be able to reach infinity when you adapt this lens to Leica. It depends on the flange focal distance of your camera. The 17-31mm helicoid works great on Sony E mount but I don’t know what it will be like with Leica. But even if you can’t reach infinity you can still use the lens for medium and close up shots. These DIY projects are all about trial and error. But once you are able to adapt a rangefinder lens it’s a really fun experience. I’m totally addicted to adapting fixed lenses because you get to play with lenses that almost nobody is using on digital. Take care.
Hi, there are a few different Nexanon 48mm f2 lenses out there. I’m not sure which one you have. I’ll have to see an image to be able to figure that out.
@@ShashidharTalla Hi, I got your photos. The lens you have is from the Konica IIA camera, which came before the Konica III. It is from the beginning of 1956 and is the first time Konica used the Hexanon 48mm f2 lens.
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BURSTON GREYE Thank you so much!!!
Very cool vintage optiks channel. Beautiful images and excellent tips. Thank you very much.
Thank you so much! I appreciate the feedback.
Omg I think I'm gonna start adapt RF lenses! It looks fun!
It’s a lot of fun indeed! There are so many cool options out there.
Excellent adaptation! Great presentation and results too. Well done.
timskinnercanada Thank you so much!!
It’s so nice to hear that people are enjoying the videos I make.
What a gem!! ❤
It’s a great little lens for sure!
Nice review!
Thank you!!
Awesome review again !
Robinsan Photography Thank you so much!!!
Very interesting. Beautiful shallow depth of field shots. I really love the Chinon 55mm f1.7 lens l purchased pretty much straight after your video, so thanks.
Diane Cotton Thank you so much! Glad to hear that you’re enjoying the Chinon 55mm. It’s a great little lens. Have fun!
Excellent review, beautiful pictures.
Thank you so much!!
Love the presentation. Thanks for the video, fun to learn something new. -Alberto
BIM Lounge Thank you so much!!
What a tiny little lens!!! Great conversion and really handy that the minimum focusing distance is better once converted, I find those long minimum distances frustrating at times if I'm only carrying one lens. Love your videos, cheers for making them.
Super small right?! I feel the same way when it comes to MFD's on some vintage lenses. Especially those rangefinders with their super long 90cm MFD! But these conversions basically turns them into pseudo-macro lenses. And some of them perform so well at close distances!
Thank you so much! Glad to hear that you are enjoying the videos.
@@VintageOptiks Do you find that these tiny little lenses (whether this older one or the newer one from the Ricoh Autoshot) have enough depth of field for 3D subjects like flowers and say larger insects? or are they just OK for paper thin items? Other than newer ones being multicoated - do newer seventies lenses resolve detail better than fifties lenses?
@@manob7 They definitely have enough depth of field for flowers and large insects.
I think it's harder to generalize when it comes to resolving power simply based on the year the lens was made. I think the optical formula and the precision during manufacturing have more to do with the ability of a lens to resolve detail, compared to which year it was made. There were some amazing lenses made in the fifties, and some not so great ones from the seventies. :)
Nice presentation 👏👍🤗
Nikolinka Georgieva Thank you!!
Just finished salvaging this from a dead Konica III; since the body was beyond repair, I went ahead and opened up the shutter and removed the leaves so it's no longer functional. My model must have been slightly different than yours, as it doesn't have the same aperture scale, and the small silver pin that stops the aperture when it's fully stopped down was MUCH longer on mine (so long it prevented even beginning to screw on a mount adapter), so it also had to be removed. My S/N was in the 373XXXX range, fwiw. I'm adapting to a Nikon Z body and unfortunately haven't been able to figure out an DIY adapter stack that gets me infinity focus, since the original flange distance seems to be a good bit shorter than that on the standard m42 interchangable lens bodies. In the meantime I'm having fun shooting my dog up-close :D Thanks for the inspiration to do this project!
You are welcome!! I'm always happy to hear from people who are adapting fixed lenses to their digital cameras!! Yeah if anything is in the way of the adapter I usually remove it as well. As long as it's not something important of course. :) Sorry that you were not able to reach infinity on Nikon Z. Hope you find some solution soon. But I bet it's fun to shoot close ups! :) Take care and enjoy this awesome little lens!
Great Video. Thanks
Vincent Diggins Thank you!! Glad you enjoyed it.
Nice review man!!
Keep up the good work :-)
Thank you so much!! Glad you enjoyed it.
Great content man, I love vintage lenses, I have 15 of most beautiful vintage ever made.
Thank you so much! Yeah I absolutely love vintage lenses too! The magic they produce is really special.
I love using vinage lenses with both analogue and digital. However, my Hexanon is staying right where it is in my jewel like Konica III. Subscribed 👍
That’s awesome you have the Konica III. Definitely use it with film if it’s working properly. It’s a gorgeous camera with a superb lens! Thanks for subscribing.
You deserve more subs
Thank you.
A cheap alternative if you like the focal length of this lens, is the minolta 45mm f2. Is cheap as hell, easy to adapt, and it's a great performer. Not so well built as the Konica, but nice nonetheless.
Yeah I am excited to try to Minolta version at some point. I currently have the Rokkor PF 45mm f1.8 from Minolta 7s, which I need to figure out how to adapt at some point. So many lenses, so little time :)
@@VintageOptiks I happen to have disassembled a Hi-matic 9 in order to fix a loose lens, you can get to the lens retainer ring from behind, it has just a plastic cover, after removing it, all the the brass goodness is there. You will have to remove the front ring to remove the cables of the light meter before doing anything. Everything is fairly modular, the shutter and rangefinder are connected via sprung levers. Good luck!
@@diegorivera2711 Sounds great! Thank you so much for the helpful tips! I am excited to try out some Minolta goodness soon.
Can you do a video on the Konishiroku Hexanon 50mm f/1.8 too! from the konica IIIM
Looks like a great lens.
I haven't adapted this specific lens, but I have some of the later Konica rangefinder lenses adapted: Auto S2, Auto S1.6, Auto S3.
The Auto S2 and S1.6 can be adapted in the exact same way as the one in this video. Konica lenses are some of the easiest to adapt.
Cvitan Grguricin Yeah it’s an awesome little lens! I’ve adapted almost every Konica rangefinder lens I can get my hands on. 😬 As you mentioned they are super easy to adapt and their quality is fantastic!! I’m a huge Konica fan.
@@VintageOptiks After adapting a Yashica Lynx14E lens, these Konicas are a walk in the park. Still struggling with the Lynx 14E lens, the aperture lever keeps on slipping from the thin metal retainer fingers because aperture ring is kind of hard to turn. Sorry for the OT subject.
nice
Thnk you!
I just got a copy of Konica III, notice the shutter release mechanism broken, open up saw some spring come out, at last I cant fix it so I removed all the shutter blades. Now waiting for the m25 to m42 ring to reach me.
Cool. I hope you’ll enjoy it once you refit it yo your camera. Good luck!
@@VintageOptiks seem like my m25 to m42 ring lost in post process...mind to share which source you get the adapter?
@@TenchiLoh Here is a link to the one I purchased. www.ebay.com/itm/M25-x0-5-For-Rodenstock-Schneider-Camera-Lens-to-male-M42-X1-adapter-w-Flange-/322898970850?_trksid=p2349624.m46890.l49292
Thanks for the heads up about this lens. It looks like a winner. I noticed at the end of the video that there is a ring between the 25-42 adapter and the lens to cover the gap. What did you use to do that? Can’t wait to get this lens.
You are welcome! Actually I did not use any ring to cover the gap. Maybe it looks like it in the video but there is nothing else. All I used were the 2 parts which I showed in the video (adapter and the helicoid) and it works great. Hope you’ll enjoy it if you end up adapting it. Cheers!
Would the process be similar for adapting a Konishiroku Hexanon 50mm 1.8, found on the Konica IIIm?
Excellent video. Do you plan on doing any of the Petri Orikkor rangefinders? I have a feeling those might be outstanding given the pedigree
of their regular Orikkor lenses from the 50s.
Thank you! I would love to try some of the Orrikor lenses from the early Petri rangefinders, but I still haven’t found an affordable camera that I can take apart. I do have a Petri ES auto with the Petri 40mm f1.7 that I need to adapt at some point. I have so many lenses waiting for me, but hopefully I can put together a Petri lens video in the near future. Take care.
Nice lens, can you do a video on the Polaroid 127 lens.
Do you mean the lens from the Polaroid 600 SE? The Mamiya 127mm f4.7?
@@VintageOptiks The Rodenstock-Ysarex 4.7 f127
Hey guys, i believe it's possible to adapt this lens onto micro 4/3 system. Would it be AR to M4/3 adapter?
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Great video, I have one of these lenses on the way, and I plan to have some fun tearing it apart! lol
Can you suggest a focusing helicoid to adapt this to a Fuji x mount? Maybe walk through the math to get the focus range correct. I know rangefinder lenses have a different flange focal distance than regular slr/dslr lenses. Thanks! Love your videos!
Thank you. That's great you want to adapt this excellent little lens!! I was looking all over the Internet for Fuji X mount solutions this morning, but I can't really find a helicoid that makes sense. The reason why I adapt everything to Sony is because there are so many parts and helicoids available for Sony E mount. Sorry, I wish I can help. I'll keep looking and if I stumble upon something I'll let you know.
@@VintageOptiks I had the same problem. I have a m39 to Fuji x adapter, I bought when I got my Russian rangefinder lenses, maybe there's an m42 - m39 focusing helicoid. I watched a video about adapting projection lenses and there was a little information about finding the right focal distance, if I find out anything I'll post it here.
In other news, yesterday I picked up an older Konishiroku 135mm f3.5 preset lens with 12 aperture blades in great condition, can't wait to give it a try!
@@ThatsTacky Yeah, it gets tricky when it comes to Fuji X mount. Don't know why they don't make the same parts for Fuji. Hopefully it will get better in the future, so all those Fuji users can try these awesome lenses.
That's great you got the older Konica 135mm f3.5! Enjoy it!! Their lenses are amazing! I have the later Konica 135mm f3.2 which is excellent. Need to review it at some point. Take care.
It looks like there are two m25 thread gauges on the m25 to m42 adapters. One appears to be a .5 thread and another is a .75 thread on the m25 end of the adapter. Which one of these will I need for this project?
@@ThatsTacky I used the 0.5 thread.
Hi, awesome video, thank you for sharing like this lens is godly, the Konica Hexanon AR 57mm 1.4 compares, but does surpass. Huge QUESTIIION: Will a....... M25 to M42 adapter~ to a m42 to m42 helicoid~ to a m42 to canon ef adapter~ WORK?
Hi, and Thank You!! This Konica is definitely a gem! You can adapt it to Canon in the way you described but the only issue is reaching infinity. The problem with Canon DSLR's is their short flange focal distance. So reaching infinity might be an issue with this set up.
I have this konica and lens. Is there a way to adapt this lens to a Canon dslr?
Oh, could you do a video on how to get the best results from a Helios 44 lens.....ie the famous swirl. I purchased one and l have to say that compared to the Pentacon 50mm f1.8 & the Chinon lens, l have been a little underwhelmed by it.......unless it's just my copy.
Diane Cotton Yeah I have two Helios 44 lenses that I need to review in the future. The thing about the swirl is all about the distance between you, your subject and your background. You’ll have to experiment and find the sweet spot. Sorry to hear that you are not too thrilled with your copy of the Helios. There are a lot of different version and also quality management wasn’t very strict. So there are definitely some bad apples out there.
There’re two types of M25-M42 adapter. One is 25mm x 0.5mm. Another one is 25mm x 0.75mm. Which one is correct? Thank you.
Hello! It's the 25mm x 0.5mm. I just updated the link in the description of the video. You can follow that, and it will take you to the correct adapter on eBay. Cheers.
I bought this exact camera and lens but mine was different after I got it outside the camera. I still jammed the shutter on the lens with a paper clip so it stayed open. I had a large screw holding the aperture ring on the rear in. Had to remove that in order to fit the flange adapter on the back. Problem is my won’t focus b/c it needs the focus ring off of the camera to advance the lens forward and backward. Such a bummer. Not sure I will be able to use this lens unless I somehow remove the lens housing off the camera and reattach it to the lens itself so I can make it advance up and down in order to focus. Any tips? Maybe mine was a different model that yours.
Hi! Not to worry. My lens also came out without the focusing mechanism. In the first part of the video I show that besides the M25 to M42 adapter I also use a 17-31mm focusing helicoid. This helicoid is what you need in order to focus. Once you screw the adapter on the back of the lens, next screw that to the focusing helicoid and you are ready to attach the lens to your camera. Not sure what camera are you planning on using with this lens, but I have a link for the helicoid I use in the description of the video. The one I use is for Sony E mount. It’s very easy to find on eBay. Not sure if they make it in other camera mounts. Hope this helps.
@@VintageOptiks Ohhhh I seeee. I need it to go to Leica M or EOS. Maybe even have the option for both. Have any suggestions? Thanks so much!!!
@@VintageOptiks I also wonder if I’ll still get infinity with the 17-31mm since the M42 to Leica M helicoid I found sticks out more than the NEX helicoid you have. Always fun doing the DIY! Haha
Yeah I’m not sure if you’ll be able to reach infinity when you adapt this lens to Leica. It depends on the flange focal distance of your camera. The 17-31mm helicoid works great on Sony E mount but I don’t know what it will be like with Leica. But even if you can’t reach infinity you can still use the lens for medium and close up shots. These DIY projects are all about trial and error. But once you are able to adapt a rangefinder lens it’s a really fun experience. I’m totally addicted to adapting fixed lenses because you get to play with lenses that almost nobody is using on digital. Take care.
Hi
I got one 48mm hexanon F2 but have more aperture blades than yours do you have any idea about this version of lens on which camera this is used
Hi,
there are a few different Nexanon 48mm f2 lenses out there. I’m not sure which one you have. I’ll have to see an image to be able to figure that out.
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@@ShashidharTalla Hi, I got your photos. The lens you have is from the Konica IIA camera, which came before the Konica III. It is from the beginning of 1956 and is the first time Konica used the Hexanon 48mm f2 lens.
Me too interested in lens modification and got a facebook page
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Not so sharp but amazing bokeh/Bluriness.
Now still expensively sold on ebay.