Yo, I wanna see the lens!!!!

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Here you go. I'll try to take some better photos of just the lens and adapter.

Thanks, it looks clean from here!

Is the lens yellowed??

do you have any pictures taken with it?

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No yellow on the lens. I'll snap some tonight after work when I get home.

If you have a quality lens, like good stuff and have deep pockets, Novoflex adapters are superb. I've tried cheapos (ebay UKP10), middling (Metabones UKP60) and ridiculously costly (Novoflex UKP£120) - the Novos were by far the best quality and most satisfying to use.

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I have two Novoflex adaptors - Minolta MD, which I also use for my M42 lenses with the appropriate ring, and Nikon - and a SRB Contax/Yashica one.

The Novoflex adaptors are superb and will most probably outlast me.

The SRB one: OK, it was 1/3 of the price of the equivalent Novoflex, and I can't complain as to the fit, but it's pretty ugly and I wonder if the interior finish (not matte enough?) is contributing to the strong purple fringing that I'm getting with my otherwise superb Planar 50mm f1.7 T* in certain conditions. Thank heavens for Lightroom 4!

Looking at the lens in better light, it does indeed have a slight yellow tint.





FOTGA M42-M4/3 adapter. Pretty happy with it and seems to be built good enough. These M42 adapters are very simple. Most other adapters, I probably would have splurged for a Novoflex version. I saved about $150 bucks going with this one.





All images are straight from camera using the SMC Takumar 50mm f/1.4. Pardon the boring photos. Didn't really have time to go find good subject matter. Just a sample of what the lens can do.

f/1.4


f/8


f/1.4 Don't really care for the bokeh on this one.


f/1.4


f/8

I wanted an adaptor to use an old (35 years) Vivitar 50mm f2.8 macro lens with my GF1. It is a M42 mount. In the end I bought a Pk to M4/3 adaptor from a UK supplier and use the lens with an "official" Pentax screw to bayonet converter. It works very well indeed though I did find it beneficial to machine a hole in the rear of the Vivitar lens to locate the locking pin of the Pk mount thus preventing the screw mount inadvertently unscrewing whilst focusing. I have the additional benefit of being able to use my old Pk bayonet lenses as well.

Andrew