legacy lenses for mirrorless cameras

Lens adapters for Micro Four Thirds (MFT):

NB. you cannot use AF-confirm chip adapters electrically coupled to a Panasonic MFT camera – it just won’t allow you to use them. Buy adapters without AF-confirm chips.
Four Thirds to MFT adapters retain AF, diaphragm, manual focus ring movement, and focal length communications to camera
- Panasonic adapter
- Olympus adapter
- the GH-1 will not allow non Four Thirds lenses to be adapted to this adapter if using an AF-confirm adapter – use other adapters for non-Four Thirds lenses
- see Four Thirds lenses
AF Canon EF and EF-S lens adapter:
- Birger Engineering have a $US700 adapter which allows AF, aperture control and optical IS when used on M43 bodies with larger batteries (eg. GH-1)
Tilt or shift adapters – convert 35mm lenses into tilt or tilt-shift lenses on MFT:
- Fotodiox shift adapters – Canon FD, Minolta MD, Contarex
- Adriano Lolli tilt adapters – most 35mm camera lenses
- Flashpoint tilt adapter – Nikon lenses
Olympus OM to MFT
- Olympus adapter
- Olympus have filed a patent for a 0.5x wide converter with SWD AF capability – very exciting indeed!
- OM lenses for MFT
Canon EOS to MFT
- aperture-control adapters:
  - RedRock Micro LiveLens EOS-MFT powered adapter
    - uses a 9V battery via cable to power an aperture-control device as part of the adapter.
    - no AF, OS available.
    - at $540, only pro videographers are likely to be interested.
  - Kipon adapter:
    - no AF control as AF is too slow anyway
    - aperture control via aperture control on the camera in M or A camera mode
    - MF assist should be possible to be automatically activated when one turns the manual focus ring on the lens
  - Birger Engineering adapter:
    - allows aperture control, AF, OS but only on camera bodies with larger batteries such as the Panasonic GH-x cameras.
    - expected to be $800
- manual adapters:
  - you cannot alter aperture while mounted as no aperture ring on EF lenses although you CAN set the aperture on a Canon body, hold down the DOF button as you remove the lens, and the aperture will stay set, otherwise it will be at widest aperture. Hopefully new adapters will address this issue soon.
  - RJ on Ebay
- don’t forget the multitude of adapters to Canon EOS which can be combined with this adapter – eg. Hasselblad, Pentax 6×7, Mamiya 645, Carl Zeiss Contax, Leica R, Olympus OM, etc. – see cameraquest.com for examples as well as search Ebay – try AF-confirm ones if you want AF confirm on Canon bodies.
- see Canon EOS/EF system
Canon FD/FL to MFT
- Cameraquest.com
- Novoflex
- see Canon FD lenses
Konica Hexanon
- Konica Hexanon AR legacy manual focus lenses
Leica M (Cosina Voigtlander includes L mount, VM mount and Carl Zeiss ZM mounts) to MFT
- Cameraquest.com
- Panasonic
- see lenses for Leica M mount
Leica R to MFT
- Panasonic adapter
- Novoflex
- Leica R mount lenses
Minolta MD/MC to MFT
- Novoflex
- see Minolta
Sony/Minolta AF to MFT
- Novoflex
- see Sony Alpha dSLR system
Pentax K to MFT
- Novoflex
- see Pentax K mount lenses
Nikon F to MFT including aperture support for the new G type lenses:
- Novoflex
- see here (also has Pentax K and Minolta to MFT adapters)
- see Nikon F camera system lenses
Cosina Voigtlander Nikon F and Pentax K to MFT
- Cameraquest.com
Contax/Yashica Carl Zeiss to MFT
- Novoflex
- lenses for Contax Yashica C/Y mount
Contax G Carl Zeiss to MFT
- ONLY the Contax G 35mm f/2, 45mm f/2 and 90mm f/2.8 lenses can be used as the 21mm and 28mm rear elements extend too deep into the camera
- Ebay sellers
- Shogun adapters for Contax G
PL cinema lens (eg. Zeiss Ultra Primes) to MFT
Pentax M42 to MFT
- Novoflex
- Pentax M42 lenses - eg. the Super Takumar 50mm f/1.4 is a nice lens with great bokeh wide open and sharp when stopped to f/5.6
- Meyer Trioplan 100mm 2.8 lens has nice unusual bokeh
Pentax 110 to MFT
- Jinfinance Ebay
Olympus Pen to MFT
T2 to MFT (for telescopes)
- Novoflex
16mm Cine C mount to MFT
- many of these lenses only cover ~80% of the MFT sensor
- C mount lens compatibility chart
- jorson
medium format (Mamiya, Hasselblad) and large format lenses
- via Canon EF or Nikon F adapters
- see Hasselblad V 6x6 manual focus medium format camera system