Aquilasfx Posted April 25, 2018 Share Posted April 25, 2018 Hello, I have a GH5 with many Nikon G lenses adapted with metabones. I recently like to shot with GH5 with 50mm 1.4G (100mm equivalent), for its size, but I don't really like manual focus system of NIKON 50mm 1.4G, it's not usable. I would like then to buy a new lens, compact 35mm/50mm FF, to use with my GH5, that is usable in manual focus and have a good bokeh. - PL 42.5 1.2 (good quality, but in manual focus?) - Voigltander 42.5 f0.95 or 25 f0.95 MFT? - Voigtlander Nokton Classic 35mm f/1.4 Leica mount? and then adapting it to MFT. I'd like to buy a lens that I can adapt to other systems, if in the near future I would sell GH5 Budget 700/800€ All the bests, C Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hansel Posted April 25, 2018 Share Posted April 25, 2018 Cheapest/smallest thing that comes to mind is Nikkor Pancake lens 50mm 1.8 (I know not that fast). It's 50€ The other 550€ you can give to charity or buy a speedbooster or you are half way to a BM..........CC4k Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonpais Posted April 25, 2018 Share Posted April 25, 2018 The Veydra 35mm T2.2 and 50mm T2.2 are both optically excellent, have geared focus rings, they’re compact and both run $800. Fuji X and Sony E-mounts are available. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aquilasfx Posted April 26, 2018 Author Share Posted April 26, 2018 Any suggestions about the mount? native or not native? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonpais Posted April 26, 2018 Share Posted April 26, 2018 Would you mind telling us what it is you’ll be shooting, where you see yourself in the next five years? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aquilasfx Posted April 26, 2018 Author Share Posted April 26, 2018 2 hours ago, jonpais said: Would you mind telling us what it is you’ll be shooting, where you see yourself in the next five years? Yes, maybe I would buy a Leica in the close future. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aquilasfx Posted April 26, 2018 Author Share Posted April 26, 2018 What about these lenses adapted: - Leica summicron 28 2 - Leica summicron 35 2 - VC Nokton 50 1.5? (I tried this lens today and seems compact and nice with focus ring) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aquilasfx Posted April 29, 2018 Author Share Posted April 29, 2018 Anyone? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anonim Posted April 29, 2018 Share Posted April 29, 2018 1 hour ago, Aquilasfx said: Anyone? Leica R's - both brilliant and one of the two best longlife solution if they are in optimal condition ... but be careful with adapters Leica R to M43 - from three of Chinese origin that I had, no one doesn't completely focus to infinity! The same story with Leica R to Canon EF (and than to speedbooster EF/m43)... Even first version of Metabones isn't perfect... I don't know about second, I sold Leica R lenses just to, out of curiosity, invest on further lens testing... Now I'd keep them. JordanWright 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JordanWright Posted April 29, 2018 Share Posted April 29, 2018 42 minutes ago, anonim said: Leica R's - both brilliant and one of the two best longlife solution if they are in optimal condition ... but be careful with adapters Leica R to M43 - from three of Chinese origin that I had, no one doesn't completely focus to infinity! The same story with Leica R to Canon EF (and than to speedbooster EF/m43)... Even first version of Metabones isn't perfect... I don't know about second, I sold Leica R lenses just to, out of curiosity, invest on further lens testing... Now I'd keep them. Did you find an adapter solution for the Leica R's that focuses to infinity? Ill be using them with a m43 speedbooster? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anonim Posted April 29, 2018 Share Posted April 29, 2018 Mostly not, but I didn't try all possible adapters solutions - from my living place is very hard to get more sophisticated tools out of cheaper China-made adapters... and while first Metabones R adapter, if I remembered well, was good in focusing, it was extremely tight fitting... I personally had a lens-master that made some corrections inside lenses to be more precise in focusing to infinity. But maybe it is more matter of tolerance... at any case, I'd suggest first to try any more expensive adapter or combination, especially if you plan to use combination of dumb R-EF to MSB EF-m43 adapter... and I'm not sure if Metabones has upgrade original version for Leica R. Nothing more clever to say that is not widely explained - besides signature of pleasant milky colors, Leica R's lesser contrast quality is today more precious because of highly capable grading software.. BTW for me was always interesting that Panasonic's so-called Leica lenses are in color rendition actually far more similar to Zeiss than Leica R line... And maybe worth noting - I found that tiny little bit softer (than primes) image of Leica R 28-70 zoom had the best grading starting point from all zooms that I tried... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aquilasfx Posted April 29, 2018 Author Share Posted April 29, 2018 1 hour ago, anonim said: Mostly not, but I didn't try all possible adapters solutions - from my living place is very hard to get more sophisticated tools out of cheaper China-made adapters... and while first Metabones R adapter, if I remembered well, was good in focusing, it was extremely tight fitting... I personally had a lens-master that made some corrections inside lenses to be more precise in focusing to infinity. But maybe it is more matter of tolerance... at any case, I'd suggest first to try any more expensive adapter or combination, especially if you plan to use combination of dumb R-EF to MSB EF-m43 adapter... and I'm not sure if Metabones has upgrade original version for Leica R. Nothing more clever to say that is not widely explained - besides signature of pleasant milky colors, Leica R's lesser contrast quality is today more precious because of highly capable grading software.. BTW for me was always interesting that Panasonic's so-called Leica lenses are in color rendition actually far more similar to Zeiss than Leica R line... And maybe worth noting - I found that tiny little bit softer (than primes) image of Leica R 28-70 zoom had the best grading starting point from all zooms that I tried... Guys, I don't talk about Leica R line, but Leica M version... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anonim Posted April 29, 2018 Share Posted April 29, 2018 23 minutes ago, Aquilasfx said: Guys, I don't talk about Leica R line, but Leica M version... As far as I now, based on their optic construction rangefinder lenses are not used seriously in m43, nor in video production in general - especially not wider lenses. But I'm very interested to try Voigtlander Heliar Classic 75mm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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