leitz dygon 9mm, 15mm, 25mm, 36mm lens

[dominic1993]

Hi, I have an mft camera and I want to equip some nice old lenses, I can get my hands on the following lenses:
Leitz dygon 1:2 9mm
Leitz dygon 1:2 15mm
Leitz dygon 1:2 25mm
Leitz dygon 1:2 36mm
Is it possible to buy an adapter for these lenses to mft mount?

 

[Dan Fromm]

If I'm not mistaken, your Dygons are afocal supplementary lenses that won't form images. Check to see whether this is is true.

 

[dominic1993]

That's a bummer. I'll check that, but otherwise I won't buy them. Thanks for the info

 

[choiliefan]

Lay your hands on an old Leicina 8mm movie camera and cannibalize the base lens and mount from the body. What will you do for the aperture? Best wishes,

 

[dominic1993]

If there's nothing to control the aperture, it would be open right?

 

[ph]

As far as I recall, the aperture was regulated by two blades forming a squarish opening. The blades were operated by the light meter that sat straight above the bult-in lens. In front of the lens there was a mechanism that locked the auxiliary supplementary elements in place.

The image circle for 2x8 optics is very much smaller than MFT and the back focus would also be very short, so even if you liberated an original leica front (and hence destroyed a potential collectors item) it would not work. (Buy the set of supplementary lenses if they are cheap and wait for the market to really arrive. Some of them are uncommon, but there are fewer collectors of the totality of Leica photographic products than of their 35mm stuff) .

p.