Contax G to M

[digitalintrigue]

Originally Posted by AndySig

That's fair enough but is there any chance of you working a list system, so people can put down a marker, get in the queue and when the time is right they can be informed that they can exercise their option or get off the list?

Unfortunately, I really don't want to spend any time managing such a list unless there is some possibility of getting compensated eventually for the time incurred. At this point it is doubtful I'll continue this. I just want to get the customers already in the queue taken care of. All the customers who have received lenses are extremely happy with the build quality and ergonomics, the only issue is the extreme turnaround time.

[scho]

Originally Posted by digitalintrigue

Thanks Carl. Let me know what you find...the seller told me he is officially calling it 1m but he says it's probably more like 0.85m close focus, coupled; and closer than that, uncoupled.

Robert, I measured about 0.73 m from a wall to sensor plane at close focus stop. This shot was at the min focus distance at f/2.8, focus on tip of lower petal on left.

[digitalintrigue]

Originally Posted by scho

Robert, I measured about 0.73 m from a wall to sensor plane at close focus stop. This shot was at the min focus distance at f/2.8, focus on tip of lower petal on left.

There is a close focus stop? Or is it the point where the RF patch is no longer coupled?

[scho]

Originally Posted by digitalintrigue

There is a close focus stop? Or is it the point where the RF patch is no longer coupled?

There is a hard close focus stop, just like infinity.

[digitalintrigue]

Interesting. In his prior ebay listings he says he leaves it uncoupled from 3ft to 1ft...

[sjgslack]

I know this is an old thread... but hey --

I was thinking of getting my 28 and 90 converted, but having contacted the chap on ebay in California who does it for $300 I have found out that rather than coupling to the original screw drive, he leaves the lens at infinity and simply has a helecoid system for focusing...

This rather put me off.

But it got me thinking -- rather than the rather crunchy feeling adapters for NEX that I put up with, one might be better off with a helecoid system there too.

Does anyone know of a NEX adapter that uses this method instead of the screw drive? Google turned up nothing for me, but somebody may know something...?

S

[digitalintrigue]

There are no NEX adapters that do this. It requires modification of the lens.

All adapters use the screw drive.