3/15/2023 0 Comments Yashica t4 35mm![]() ![]() As such they are perhaps more ideally used with an helicoid M-mount adapter and some sort of compact system camera. Of course, despite these adapters being M-Mount, there’s no way of focusing them on a M-Mount camera. Quite cleverly the aperture just slots and rotates into place. Ray says its around f/8, though it looks a little larger to me. Once extracted it was just a case of mounting the sealed lens unit into the back of Ray’s adapter – in my case with a load of blutak.Īlongside the adapter Ray also sent me a aperture to play with. I shan’t go into the details of how to extract the lens from the Yashica as Ray covers that on his site here. The Yashica lens was the second choice to the Nikon for me, so since I had one on hand that I was happy to donor he send me his 3D printed adapter. He’d been experimenting with a 3D printed body cap style lens conversions, primarily with the lens from the Yashica T4. That project is taking quite a while due to his varying access to said lathe, so in the meanwhile I started chatting to a few other people about further options.Īt some point in proceedings Raymond Yee – who was in the early stages of setting up website ‘ lost lens caps‘ – got in touch. I started down the road of converting a lens with a little help from a friend of mine who has access to a lathe. ![]() Whilst I am very happy with my converted lens (short of me forgetting to ask for it in Leica thread mount – that was a head slap moment, I can tell you), it did make me wonder what level of conversion could be achieved on a very small budget. The end result is a great quality bit of kit… But for £400 you’d hope so! I chose the Nikon 元5AF as a donor camera and for my £400 odd I got a M-Mount, rangefinder coupled lens with focus and aperture controls. Earlier on in the year I went through the process of sending a lens to Bellamy at Japan Camera Hunter to be converted by MS-Optical in Japan.
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