Leica R lenses on Nikon
Thanks to readers Bob G and Robert M who passed on this tip about Leitax Leica R lenses to Nikon conversion kits (fully reversible) for many (but not all) Leica R lenses to Nikon mount. This is informational only, not a recommendation, as I have not yet used the kit (but one is on the way).
Priced at most at 75 Euros, these conversion kits might be a good bet for Leica fans, and there is a lot of very good used Leica glass on the market at reasonable prices. Operation on Nikon requires manual stop-down of the aperture, not an issue for me, as I’ve shot that way for years on Canon EOS using lens adapters for Nikon and Leica.
I have a Leitax kit on the way—if there are any readers out there, especially in the San Francisco Bay Area with a Leica 100mm f/2.8 APO macro they want to test this kit with, please contact me and we’ll try the conversion together (and I’d like to borrow it!).
My primary concern is that certain longer lenses apparently lose some barrel baffling (but not the 100/2.8 APO it seems). Loss of optical baffling is dubious to me, at least with ultra-expensive APO lenses that rely on everything exactly as designed to extract their high performance. However, there are numerous lenses of shorter focal lengths which don’t have such potential issues.
Leica 100mm f/2.8 APO macro on Nikon D700
