Does anyone here use a Leica lens on your vintage Nikon…?
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I think Leica M mount has a closer to flange distance to film distance than Nikon and will not focus to infinity, there might be an adaptor with a balance lens that could work like teleconverter. Not not sure about the SL and SL2 lens, the R lens may not work without the right electronics?
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Thanks for your input…!
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Thank you…!
I had a Leitax mount converted Leica Summilux 50 1.4 R that I used on my Nikon F6. The only lenses that can be converted are the Leica SLR (R mount) lenses.
The novelty of it wore off real quick, as the conversion loses the auto aperture stop down functionality.
Basically it takes a modern lens, and turns it into a manual stop down lens.
So I converted that lens back to the native Leica R mount, and use it on my Leica R9.
A much better deal is to use the Zeiss and Voigtlander Nikon mount lenses - those work as you'd expect, and can give spectacular results. The CV 40mm f2 is awesome, and I also use the Zeiss 50mm Makro Planar, as well as the Zeiss Sonnar 50mm 1.4.
Leica lenses are also very expensive - before conversion. I'd use that money to get your camera serviced and/or a good standard Nikon mount lens with the remainder on film.
Nikon people don't own Leica lenses
What about people who own both Nikon systems and Leica systems? Plenty of those.
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I’ll look into that…!
Those aren't Nikon people. They're camera people.
In other words, I was kidding. I'm just waiting to read the virtues of the F2 and how it wouldn't need a Leica lens.
Kind of like you just said "use that money to get your camera serviced"...
Nikon makes sweet lenses. It's why I just dropped off my Nikon 35 f2 AF-D at Dean's to fix the oily aperture blades. The glass on that lens is killer.
Don't waste your time converting lenses. Pardon for bringing this up in a film thread, but a better example is with digital cameras, as lenses are much easier to convert w mirrorless using adapters.
Anyway I got a stack of adapters for my Fuji, Nikon, Olympus and Leica digicams. So I could mix n match. And it was so dumb. Olympus lenses on Olympus cameras worked so much better, and gave better results, than adapted for example, a Leica lens. This was for all of them. Stick with the lenses built for the systems - better results and easier to use.
Don't waste your time converting lenses. Pardon for bringing this up in a film thread, but a better example is with digital cameras, as lenses are much easier to convert w mirrorless using adapters.
Anyway I got a stack of adapters for my Fuji, Nikon, Olympus and Leica digicams. So I could mix n match. And it was so dumb. Olympus lenses on Olympus cameras worked so much better, and gave better results, than adapted for example, a Leica lens. This was for all of them. Stick with the lenses built for the systems - better results and easier to use.
Exceptions: LTM lenses on an M. Pentax M42 lenses on a K-body. Those mounts were purposely made with that tiny additional lens to film distance specifically to allow for those adapters. (So it hardly counts as adapting)
Only if it's a Leica R lens, for rangefinder lenses you need a Nikon Z because of the flange distance but it's a very enjoyable way to use an M mount lens with an adaptor.
I agree with Huss, it is not worth the money to have tech machine a Nikon body to take a M mount lens, there are just too many great Nikon and Zeiss lens in F mount to make the money and time worth the effort.
I don't even use Leica lenses on my Leica! 
M42 lenses can be adapted to Minolta SR and Canon EF and probably a few more obscure mounts just as well as to K.
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I don't even use Leica lenses on my Leica!
That`s deep...!
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I know. The point was, Pentax designed the K mount with it in mind to have the ability to adapt the lenses it had made for the Spotmatic.
If I understand you correctly, do you thing your Nikon F2 is better than a Leica R 6.2 ?
Think about what a camera body can do and how much it is responsible for the Image quality !!!!!!
There are basis funktions !!!!!!!
- film transport : each single frame ....
a Leica can operate much more exactly .... different to Nikon because of a mechanical superiority.what is the difference in mm accuracy between each single
frame ? I would like to say : tollerance is less
than 0,0014 mm. Imagine you shoot E6 and have to frame your slides.....
!- shutter control : A Leica shutter has also a better mechanical accuracy. The tollerance could be less than
0,03 EV - this is an important issue. Imagine you shoot B&W and with a Nikon F2 you risc overexposure 0,0475 stops
!- electronic exposure control : That's your point, because a Leica electronic isn't that superior - lucky you
!At least again : what is the function of a camera body?
To transport the film and to operate the shutter correctly !
Your old Nikon will do that to your satisfaction ?
I will spell it again : L U C K Y YOU
!What is much more responsible for superior image quality ?
The lens of course - what is better a) a Nikon lens or b) a vintage Leitz ?
one should ask Ken Rockwell better !
Nikon2 - I would see no problem to use the nikon with adapted Leica R lenses.
( M lenses are no option from my point)
It is a budget solution par excllence!!
!Save your money and never mind about others !
btw : It is hard to find a Leica R photographer with Nikon lens
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The Nikon F2 is better for me than the Leica R 6.2...!
If you want to use Leica lenses, the R6.2 is better.
If you want to use Nikon lenses, the F2 is better.
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You can adapt the Summicron Rigid v1 and V2 to Nikon S-Mount using an adapter. The Barrel unscrews from the Leica focus mount an can be mounted in an adapter made for use on a Bellows. Hack that into an S-Mount, done. On my list. I've seen this done long ago, bought the parts- on the to do list. With the choice I have in Nikon lenses, this is just a "You can do that, so I did". Kind of like you can lock up the mirror on a Nikon SLR, use an M39 to F-Mount adapter made for Bellows, Collapse the Leica lens into the SLR, and take a picture, It could be done, so I did.
Of course you can use the longer lenses such as the older Summicron 90/2, Elmar 90/4, Hektar 135/4.5 on a Bellows with a Nikon SLR. Nikon made a 39mm to F-Mount adapter for use with Bellows lenses.
I frequently use Nikon lenses on my Leica M cameras, film and digital.
Of course you can use the longer lenses such as the older Summicron 90/2, Elmar 90/4, Hektar 135/4.5 on a Bellows with a Nikon SLR. Nikon made a 39mm to F-Mount adapter for use with Bellows lenses.
I frequently use Nikon lenses on my Leica M cameras, film and digital.
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