Awesome Helicoid Adapters for Vintage Lenses (Sony E mount)! Giveaway winner announced!!
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- čas přidán 11. 04. 2021
- Today is all about adapters! For a long time I was using regular adapters for vintage lenses, but recently that all changed - a new line of helicoid adapters makes using vintage lenses even more exciting!!
And we have a winner of the Vintage Lens Giveaway from last week!
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Links for Helicoid Adapters:
Nikon to Sony NEX - ebay.us/alVgQK
Minolta MD to Sony NEX - ebay.us/83uBmZ
M42 to Sony NEX - ebay.us/N0NPc1
Canon FD to Sony NEX - ebay.us/2zv7Nh
Olympus OM to Sony NEX - ebay.us/XTc37j
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Congratulations to Matt Smith. I'd like to see what Matt will produce with that amazing lens. Great channel.
Woohoo! Thank you so much. Very excited!!!!
Congrats!
You are welcome!! Congratulations!! 🎉 Please send me your full name and mailing address to the email address below and I’ll send you the lens ASAP! vintageoptiksemail@gmail.com
My Helicoid Adapter is Leica M to Sony E mount, and I have several adapters to Leica M, Nikon F, M42. Really it is great meanly with that old rangefinder lenses that minimum focus distance is 0.7 meters and some only to 1.0 meter. A wideangle 35 mm with the helicoid adapter is a great macro lens.
Glad to hear that you’ve already experienced how handy these adapters can be! Some lenses can have pretty bad minimum focusing distance and that’s when these adapters can be very useful! I also completely agree that it’s a lot of fun to push wide angle lenses into macro territory! I love it!!
These adapters look like a game changer! Can't wait to get mine!
They are awesome! I was super excited to share them with everyone. Definitely a game changer!
Really glad I found your channel! I’m looking to buying my first mirrorless body and look forward to adapting my Zeiss and Minolta lenses, plus trying others. Your channel will be a great help!
Thank you for your comment. I hope the videos will be helpful in your journey with adapting vintage lenses. Cheers!
Thanks for sharing and its really cool to hear you give a shout out to the individual who passed the info on to you to share with us! Now if you'll excuse me, i have some adaptive shopping to do!
You are welcome! Enjoy your vintage lenses in a whole new way!
Thank you. Very interesting.
Glad you you find it useful. For me these helicoids are game-changers.
I have these adapters for all my lens types. It's a "2 for" deal. Kinda like having a mini bellows in your kit that can do double duty
Nice!! I agree, it’s 2 functions for the price of one! Such cool invention, and super useful! I love them!!
Much appreciated!!!
Great tip, thanks!
You are welcome!
I may have been the first view to this one! 🙂
I have just one helicoid, it's M42 to M42. With a thin mount adaptor I can put it on either Sony or Fuji bodies, and the M42 mount on the other end is super flexible. M42 lenses of course, but also good for M39 rangefinder lenses with a thin ring. The adaptor becomes thin enough itself to work well for rangefinder lenses.
If you haven't yet, check out the tilt adaptors, you can add tilt to any lens, a lot of fun with wider aperture ones.
I'll take a look at these adaptors you link, although I wish they had k mount ones.
Nice to hear that you’ve tried the M42 to M42 helicoid adapters. I have a few of those, and they are great, but I was really excited that they make these dedicated ones too! It’s really nice to be able to pick from so many lens mounts and instantly focus closer with your favorite lenses! Unfortunately I haven’t been able to find a Pentax K to NEX adapter. And the one I really wish they’ll make is Konica AR to NEX! Hopefully soon. 🤞
Very clever...I got a bunch of vintage lens that will benefit from those adaptor.
Thank you! I love these helicoid adapters! They completely changed the way I shoot with vintage lenses!
@@VintageOptiks I'm now looking intesively to find a Konica S2 :-)
Nice! The lens from that camera is amazing! I hope you can find one soon.
Holy shoot I’m so glad I came across this. I got one for a projector lens that didn’t work out and now I can use it for this instead!!
Glad that the video is helpful! I love these helicoid adapter!! They come in very handy when you want to get closer to your subject!
Very cool, I wasn't familiair with these helicoid adapters!
Yeah they are awesome!! Now my vintage lenses can focus much closer than usual! Really fun to experiment with!
interesting adapter, has a built in extension tube that is adjustable
Yeah, I love these adapters! They are making my vintage lenses even more exciting!
I need this for the following Minolta MD + FD + QBM to L-Mount!
I hope you can find them! I am still trying to track down helicoid adapters for Konica AR, Pentax K and QBM. All to Sony E mount. Hopefully someone will make them.
@@VintageOptiks fingers crossed! Always loved you reviews
Thank you!!
i have a couple of Minolta that i really want to use on a EOS 60D but the flange distance dont allow it sadly, does the Helicoid adapters will fix this problem ? do you think a 3d printed adapter can do the fix as i saw one that the person giving the STL says it will work... congrats to Matt , and thank you for you great work you do in all your videos
Thanks so much! Regarding your question, these adapters will not fix the issue you have with your Minolta lenses. If somebody can make you a 3D printed one that might be the way to go.
Just found one for fuji x, should make my Nikkor 28 3.5 a little more fun to use.
That’s great! Enjoy the shorter minimum focusing distance 😄
Now my 28 3.5 is a macro lens, awesome. 135 3.5 focuses to 3.5ft now.
@@ryanbeer5262 That’s awesome! Isn’t it so much fun to push your regular lenses into macro territory?! I love these helicoid adapters!! Enjoy!!
congrats matt!! i might look into one of these helicoid adapters. have u used the fotodiox pronto or techart pro adapter to allow auto focus on these manual lenses? I use it and it's fantastic. it's only fsony cameras with phase detection auto focus
Yeah, check them out if you have a chance. I haven’t tried the adapters you mentioned because I’m not a fan of autofocus, but that’s just me. I love manual focus too much. 😬
I also seek for Vintage Kern Paillard Yvar 1:2.8 f=36mm Cine Lens &
LOMO T43 helicoid adapter
Great video! Congrats to winner.
Question on the adapter, do they make them in m42 to EF? Or anything else to EF?
Thank you! Unfortunately there aren't many options for EF and the ones that exist are quite expensive. fotodioxpro.com/collections/helicoid-adapters/camera-mount_canon-eos-ef-efs
Hi. Can you advise on how to use a m42 lens on a m39 mount camera ?
A helicoid adapter ?
Hi. If you can find a helicoid adapter that fits your description then definitely get one. I prefer helicoid adapters because they are much more versatile than regular adapters, especially when it comes to close up shots. I've only used helicoid adapters for Sony E mount, so I can't say which ones are good for M39 mount camera.
Can you please do a video on reverse mounting lense for macro shooting. I guess there are some adaptors in market, but not sure how reliable these methods are.
I’ll try to make one at some point. Those are easy to find and usually very cheap.
So a variable macro tube?
Yeah pretty much.
I have a Fotasy EF to NEX Helicoid and then I just use cheap adapter rings to get me from M42/OM to EF. Seems more universal. Only issue I have is with my Fotasy Helicoid, the action is not butter smooth. I have have also tried the Fotodiox DLX Stretch adapters which conceptually was cool because they include an ND. However, the build quality was horrific. Sticky helicoid and tons of wiggle. I have poor experience with Fotodiox in general (always too much wiggle in their products). Trying a Roxen helicoid from Ebay and if that doesn't work out, may shell out for a Kipon EF to NEX but its much more expensive.
Yeah, the Fotasy adapters are not the best quality out there, but I haven’t had any issues with them. Definitely not butter smooth as a Takumar lens but they do the job 😄 The Kipon helicoid adapters are 5 times more expensive and for me it’s not really worth it. I’m just glad that these cheaper ones exist, so more people can try them out and enjoy new possibilities with their lenses.
@@VintageOptiks Agreed - if these adapters are too pricey, it defeats the cost benefit of going vintage. The Takumar helicoids ARE butter smooth and have the perfect level of tension/resistance when you turn them.
@@User_not_found_403 Totally agree!!
Congrats Matt Smith.📢
@Vintage Optiks Are those made of full metal?
They are mostly made of metal with some hard plastic for the rotating ring. Don't expect amazing build quality, but for under $30 they are pretty nice. If you want better build quality Kipon makes the same adapters all from metal, but they are between $130 and $200!!
@@VintageOptiks Thanks for the reply. At that cost adapting lens should be a Leica 😀
@@sreejeshsivaraman I agree 😁 You can buy amazing vintage lenses for less than these pricey adapters.
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Can we find it for Fujifilm too? 🥺
Unfortunately I was not able to find them for Fuji. Hopefully soon someone will make them.
Btw, there is a company that makes helicoid adapters for Fuji X but they are much more expensive. If you search for "Kipon helicoid adapters Fuji X" on Ebay you will find them. But they range between $130 and $200 which is a bit ridiculous for an adapter!
@@VintageOptiks thanks for answering, but yes, really and quite expensive for an adapter. congratulations on the channel!
@@yelonhesli Thank you. If I find them somewhere for cheaper I'll let you know.
@@yelonhesli Another company also makes these adapters for Fuji X, but they are also on the expensive end. Here is a link: fotodioxpro.com/collections/lens-mount-adapters/stretch+camera-mount_fujifilm-x