Now that I'm only using one camera system for everything (Contax 645/P30) I'm wanting to use my all time favorite lens again the Hasselblad 110F2. The Contax adapters are very exspensive and hard to find, has anybody tried the one from Adaptersolutions.com, it claims to focus to infinity with no problem. Are there any others out there to look at??
Thanks in advance.

Ben Edmonson
www.benedmonson.com

Novoflex makes one.

Model # is CONTHA 645,I believe.

I've recently ordered one but won't see it for a few more weeks.
I use Novoflex Leica->Canon and Nikon->Canon adapters and can find no physical fault
with them

Mark

Mark,
Thanks for the info. on the Novoflex. If you don't mind me asking where did you order it from, and how much?

Ben

In my Contax days I used one from Zoerk and they make exceptional products.

http://www.zoerk.com/


They make one for Hassy V lenses and one for Pentax 67 lenses.

Great company with great support and a product that just works.

Ben

I ordered it through a local Montreal pro-oriented csmers store.
I imagine you could do do likewise,locally,as I didn't notice on the Novoflex site where
you can order directly.

I didn't ask specifically but the price was roughly around $230 Cdn

Mark

I ordered a Novoflex adapter on Monday from Foto-Huppert, for 142.86 EUR. Depending upon how confident I feel that the Novoflex is strong enough for the longer teles, I may yet order an adapter from Zoerk (US$359.00).


-H.

To follow up:

I've had the Novoflex adapter for several weeks, and I'd have no reservation using it with lenses up to 250mm.

But my goal was to be able eventually to use something 350mm or longer, if I came across it at an attractive price. For all shorter focal lengths, I've been quite happy with Contax versions. I don't currently have any Hasselblad lenses.

What's my concern about the Novoflex? The two main pieces of the adapter are fastened together with four 1.5mm screws (oriented radially, nicely countersunk, and apparently of polished stainless steel). I tell myself that I shouldn't worry about shear stress on these screws, for the Contax portion of the mount forms a throat that nests snugly within the Hasselblad portion, extending as far forward as it can and still allow clearance for the Hasselblad bayonet blades. The adapter's fit to the Contax body is indistinguishable from that of a native Contax lens, and I've no reason to doubt a correspondingly good fit at the Hasselblad end.

I'd suspect it's silly to be nervous, here, were it not for the fact that the lenses 350mm and up are rare enough that their mass and moment may be outside the (unstated) design limits for this adapter.

It would be useful to know whether the Zoerkendorfer adapter is also a two-piece affair, or whether it's monolithic. Anyone?


-H.

Over 250mm why should the lens weight matter? You should be mounting the lens, not the body, so only the body weight matters.

Otherwise (and I have a 12 lb Schneider-kereutznach monster 300/2 lens with hassey to contax adapter) I mount lens and use the long lens support from Manfrotto on the body and there is NO stress.

Regards
Victor

Silly me! You're quite right: the real concern is, indeed, the weight of the otherwise-unsupported camera, not the lens.

Thanks for the tip about the Manfrotto support.


-H.