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FAQ Adapters: FOTODIOX DLX STRETCH LENS MOUNT ADAPTER – LEICA M RANGEFINDER LENS TO SONY ALPHA E-MOUNT MIRRORLESS CAMERA BODY WITH MACRO FOCUSING HELICOID “WHAT IS THE EXTENDED SIZE?”

What is the Extended size? 5mm.

FAQ Adapters: PRONTO AF Adapter Compatibility w/ Leica M Adapters

The PRONTO adapter has a Leica M-mount, but the options don’t stop there. With the use of additional adapters you are able to adapt nearly any lens to Leica M, attach to the PRONTO adapter and enable them to be used with autofocus. Not all adapters w

FAQ Adapters: How to lock and unlock Contax G adapter

When you put on the lens you have to check to see if the locking tab, locks into the lens locking tab as shown below. Now to release the lens make sure to pull the release knob straight up. Make sure the release knob does not tilt when pulling up on

FAQ Adapters: What does the dots mean on my adapter ring

These are the aperture markings on our adapter moving ring left opens aperture. Turning aperture ring right is closing aperture. The Green square around the circle on the left means the lens aperture would be set to wide open, when the red dot is abo

FAQ Adapters: How To Remove Magnifying Glass From The Fotodiox Lens Mount Adaptors

Using a clean lens cloth grip the glass firmly in one hand and the adapter edge the other. Rotate the adaptor clockwise while holding the glass still, the retention ring has quite a few threads so just keep turning. Eventually the glass portion will

FAQ Adapters: DKL Will Not work with this adapter

The Fotodiox DKL Adapters were modeled after the Kodak Retina DKL Lenses manufactured by Schneider Kreuznach. Due to the variances between the original manufacturer's intolerance of the Aperture and lock placement, we cannot guarantee that these adap

FAQ Adapters: How Do I Know Which Adapter to Get?

Fotodiox offer a variety of lens mount adapters varying across price range, build quality, and functionality. But with over 700 adapters available, it can be difficult finding just the right one. – We have our standard consumer adapters, which are gr

FAQ Adapters: Lens mount adapter Chart

FAQ Adapters: Pronto vs Techart

After our in-house comparison of Fotodiox Pro PRONTO Adapter – Leica M Mount Lens to Sony E-Mount Camera Autofocus Adapter and the Techart PRO Leica M – Sony E Autofocus Adapter we see minimal difference in the real world performance between the two

FAQ Adapters: What is the ‘Crop factor’ or 35mm equivalent focal length of my lens?

‘Crop factor’ is incorrect and misleading terminology, ’35mm equivalent focal length’ is more accurate as what you are really asking is; what is the new angle of view of my lens when on this camera?In photography, the 35mm equivalent focal length is

FAQ Adapters: Leica M Visoflex SLR Lens or L/M39 Leica Visoflex Screw Mount Lenses to Canon/Nikon and it cannot focus to infinity

This adapter is meant for the Visoflex Leica M system which was Leica’s way of creating a SLR camera out of their rangefinder cameras (http://camerapedia.wikia.com/wiki/Reflex_housing). The Visoflex lenses have a much longer Focal Flange Distance (FF

FAQ Adapters: How to use a Canon EOS EF/EF-S Lens on an adapter and still be able to adjust the lens aperture to shoot and expose properly.

Typically, there are no ways to control the aperture of Canon lenses, but we have found a few workarounds. But unfortunately, these will only work if you do have a Canon EOS-mount camera available:. 1) Put the Canon EOS lens on a Canon EOS body an

FAQ Adapter: Why is there a RB67 & RZ67 Adapter

The infinity focus is the issue with why you would need one vs the other:. RB67 lenses should work with both the “RB67” and “RZ67” adapters and have infinity focus with both.However, RZ67 lenses shouldn’t have infinity focus with the RB67 adapter, al

FAQ Adapters: FD Lens Not Fitting

Have a Canon FD/FL lens but it doesnt fit. Most likely the lens you have is a Canomatic or Caonflex lens. They are ‘similar’ to FD/FL mounts, but they do have their differences (https://www.cameraquest.com/canonflx.htm). Canonmatic lenses are also kn

FAQ Adapters: M42 Not Straight

Lens not being ‘upright’ on the camera. The inner ring of our M42 adapters does rotate to allow the lenses from various manufacturers (not all of them ‘stop’ at the same point) to sit ‘upright’ when mounted on the adapter, the ring is normally clampe

FAQ Adapters: Which M42 Lens Adapter Do You Need? V1 or V2?

FAQ Adapters: How-To Remove an Adapter that is Missing the Lens Release

If your lens is missing the lens release button or tab, such as in the image below:. Use a small pointed object (such as a screwdriver, paper clip, etc) and insert the tip into the exposed hole. Using the object, pull the lens locking pin down, this

FAQ Adapters: Will this Arri PL Lens fit this adapter (Arri PL Lens Mount to Canon EOS (EF, EF-S) Camera System)

The adapter will fit the Camera EF Mount; however the adapter is very limited in the lenses that will fit. Most Arri/Zeiss/Red PL-Mount lenses will not work with the PL to EOS lens mount adapter. Due to the registration distance of modern PL lenses a

FAQ Adapters: Lens Is Loose On Adapter

A slight amount of rotational movement of the lens in the adapter is normal and nothing to be concerned about. All lenses rotate a slight amount in any mount (be it brand name or third party) this is due to the space needed for the locking pin to eng

FAQ Adapters: Nikon ‘F’ vs ‘G’ Adapters, Which One Do I Need?

First off let's talk about Nikon ‘F’ mount cameras and lenses:. The Nikon F-mount is a type of interchangeable lens mount developed by Nikon for its 35mm format Single-lens reflex cameras. The F-mount was first introduced on the Nikon F camera in 195

FAQ Adapters: Pro Vs. Consumer Lens Mount Adapters

So you’ve heard of lens mount adapters now from some bloggers, instructional videos and reviewers, and you’ve decided you want to try one out yourself. You know what lens you want to use on which camera and you’ve decided on Fotodiox for not only pri

FAQ Adapters: Glass Adapters & Image Quality

A glass adapter, which means that it has a 1.4x optic glass pieces inside it to make up the focal flange distance difference between the 2 camera systems (distance between the lens flange and film/sensor plane), allows an older lens to focus to infin

FAQ Adapters: What Lens Is This? What Adapter Do I Need?

A question we get often is ‘What lens is this?’, and the answer is not always easy to find. There are many third party lens makers (such as Zeiss, Sigma, Tokina and Tamron to name just a few) who make the same lens for a multitude of different camera

FAQ Adapters: PRONTO AF Adapter Compatibility w/ Leica M Adapters

Minolta MD Stuck on MD Adapter

Sometimes if you do not install the adapter correctly as shown below: (It can get stuck on the adapter). Another visual cue is that the top of the adapter will have the MD-LM, and your lens likely has a similar mark for the top of the lens. I've circ