Sony a7 Bodies with Leica Glass

[Neil]

Hi Guys

Any of you guys using a a7 Body with your Leica Glass.......

• What adapters are you using
• Any complaints
• Tips advice
• What about Wide Angle Lenses..............

Any feedback would be much appreciated

 

Neil

[Aug]

I use a Summicron-M 50/2, it works pretty good with the A7II and a Voigtlander VM-E close up adapter, I use it everyday, pre-ordered the Sony 90FE  macro, and probably get the Batis 25mm then I would be set.

[Philber]

Leica R should be no problem at all. I had 4, still have 2, including Elmarit R 28mm vII.

For Leica M, the only wides that work well without the Kolari modification are the WATE (16-18-21), and the Summiluxes 21 and 24. 

[Golem]

I would hesitate to put rf lenses on a

digital camera of ANY sort. There's a

reason that, frinstintz, zeiss's super

hot shot normal lens is a distagon when

back in the film era it woulda been a

planar. It's kinda ironic that digital

cameras can have very shallow bodies,

but need to have their lenses built to

stand well distant from the "film plane"

[thus the distagon normal lens]. Thaz

why Leica R-lenses would be generally

preferable to M-lenses.

 

 

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[Cheatah]

I guess, the Leica R-glasses with adapter, should be better especially in the WA range, as the compact Leica M-glasses, because of the

flange distance. People saying, that the Leica M WA lenses having optical problems in the WA corner!

[foto-fanatic]

Hey great info, anyone used the leica r 60mm macro?

Theres one second hand for 500neg atm.

Tempted.

[30yearsR]

Yes, the 60 mm Macro Elmarit (version 3, no ROM) is my preferred standard lens on R bodies.I've used it now on the a7 II, results are great, no probs whatsoever. Macro and standard shots excellent. Performs better than the Summicron 2.0.

[30yearsR]

Here is a macro shot with the Macro Elmarit, ISO 1600, F probably 8, I dont keep track and the A7 wont't record.

 

and a "normal" shot, ISO 1600, F probably 5.6, Both shots as JPEG files right out of the A7, no processing, nothing done except compression to get file size below 1 MB.

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[foto-fanatic]

OOh quite nice results above, good colour and structure there, low to no barrel distortion according to my eye, the new sony 90 macro is 13-1400$ so been thinking of alternatives to save money, thanks for posting.

[Cheatah]

With using old glasses, incl. the very old once, like Kilfitt, Schacht, Zeiss Jena, etc., and also some Russian and Ukrainian glasses, one can save a lot of money in obtaining also very good results!