Cosina, the maker of my first ever 35mm SLR and current owner of the prestigious Voigtlnder brand, has announced a rather exciting accessory. Its an adapter to attach M-mount lenses onto Micro Four Thirds cameras.
What does that actually mean? It means that you can buy one of the burgeoning range of modern m4/3 digicams and slip on a lens from Leica, Voigtlnder or Carl Zeiss. Essentially this means you can use some of the best lenses ever made on some pretty cheap and full featured bodies (the Panasonic G1, for instance).
There are some limits. The adapter is mechanical only, which means that there will be no communication between the camera and lens. This could mess with some advanced metering features, and also leave gaps in your photos metadata, but for older, non-chipped lenses this wont matter anyway.
This product alone actually makes the Micro Four Thirds system much more enticing, and until Leica comes out with a proper digital M-series camera, why not save some money and use this instead? 19,800 or around $200.
Product page [Cosina via DP Review]
Posted under Gadget Reviews
This post was written by publisher on April 27, 2009
