Fujifilm releases their own adapter for Leica M lenses

By PR admin | Published: May 24, 2012

During CES 2012 Fujifilm confirmed that they will be releasing their own adapter for attaching Leica M lenses to the X-Pro1 mirrorless camera. There is still no official word from Fuji yet, but the Leica M-Mount adapter for X-Mount cameras is currently listed at Adorama for $199.95. Some third party solutions for using Leica M lenses on the X-Pro1 have been available for months, like the Kipon L/M-FX adapter.

Update: Fujifilm just officially announced the adapter. The adapter can store lens profiles and trigger the correct framelines. Here is the press release and some more images:

Valhalla, N.Y., May 24, 2012 – FUJIFILM North America Corporation today announced that it will release an M-Mount Adapter for the FUJIFILM X-Pro1 interchangeable lens digital camera system, specially made to enhance the experience of taking photos with the professional X-Pro1 digital camera. The all new M-Mount Adapter is designed to expand the lens selection of the FUJIFILM X-Pro1 interchangeable lens digital camera system, and give photographers a wide range of shooting capabilities.

“Since the introduction of the FUJIFILM X100, Fujifilm has made a commitment to expanding the functionality of the X-Series, and today we are very pleased to offer customers a premium accessory that they can truly be excited about – an M-Mount Adapter for the FUJIFILM X-Pro1,” said Go Miyazaki, division president, Imaging and Electronic Imaging Divisions, FUJIFILM North America Corporation. “We listened very carefully to our customers about their desire for an M- Mount for the FUJIFILM X-Pro1, and we are proud to announce that this accessory will be available soon for everyone.”

Precision Made M-Mount Adapter
Similar to the FUJIFILM X-Pro1’s exacting design standards, the precision made M-Mount Adapter is engineered to deliver superb results for discerning photographers.

The M-Mount Adapter is comprised of three parts: an aluminum mount for the body, a stainless steel mount for the lens, and an aluminum central tube. This construction enables an accurately-maintained distance of 27.8mm from the lens mount to sensor, which is crucial for delivering high quality and high resolution images.

The camera side of the M-Mount Adapter features an array of electronic connections that automatically pass information to the FUJIFILM X-Pro1 body based on pre-registered lens profiles. With firmware version 1.10 or later, this information is transmitted by pressing the Function button on the side of the adapter, which allows users to access the M-Mount Adapter Settings menu on the rear LCD.

While attached, the M-Mount Adapter still allows users to enjoy the benefits of the FUJIFILM X-Pro1’s extraordinary Hybrid Multi Viewfinder. The Electronic Viewfinder (EVF) and LCD monitor both offer a 100% field of view, and the Optical Viewfinder (OVF) displays a bright frame corresponding to the focal length in use.

M-Mount Adapter ProvidesUltimate Control
The FUJIFILM M-Mount Adapter provides ultimate control by allowing users to create and fine tune lens profiles through the X-Pro1’s Mount Adapter Settings menu. This menu allows X-Pro1 users to profile up to six lenses. There are four pre-sets for 21mm, 24mm, 28mm and 35mm lenses, plus two optional settings for additional optics.

With the Fujifilm M-Mount Adapter attached, profiles can be user-defined, based on distortion, peripheral illumination and color shading corrections.

Three levels of distortion correction are also available to combat barrel distortion on wide-angle lenses, and pincushion distortion on telephoto lenses. Users can select from Strong, Medium or Weak correction, or simply turn any correction off.

Peripheral illumination controls the amount of darkening at the four corners of an image. Eleven levels of correction can be applied from +5 to -5 (including “0”) with users given the choice of darkening the corners of the image to emphasise a central subject or lightening edges for more even illumination across the frame.

Finally, color shading correction allows each corner of the frame to be color corrected to combat any shift in color between the center and edges of the frame. Corrections can be made to red/cyan color shading and blue/yellow color shading from -9 to +9 relative to the green channel.FUJIFILM M-Mount Adapter key features
  • Three-piece aluminium and stainless steel construction
  • 27.8mm lens mount to sensor distance
  • Electronic connections and Function button
  • Compatible with Hybrid Multi Viewfinder
  • Lens profiles and corrections available through Mount Adapter Setting menu (firmware version 1.10 or later must be installed for using above features)

The M-Mount Adapter will be available in June 2012 for $199.99.

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  • Daniel

    extreme want. O.o

  • Oz

    Sounds great . Will it work with zeiss and voigtlander lenses?

    • http://www.sebastiantoth.at Sebastian

      Sure, will work with all M lenses ever made. Also, if you get an L39->M Adaptor too you can use all the Leica lenses made from the 1930′s till today.

      To the Adaptor .. Well, not really what i expected, but i hope the will release some focus confirmation help with that new firmware too. Otherwise it will turn out just as useless for serious photography as the other brand adaptors, just with some nice gimmicks.

      • Nico

        +1 ;-)
        Can’t agree more about focus confirmation……….

        • http://photorumors.com PR admin

          Me too, but let’s keep in mind that this is Fuji’s first mirrorless camera with interchangeable lenses. The next version will probably have focus peaking (or maybe firmware update?)

    • http://photorumors.com PR admin

      yes, it should

  • Harold Ellis

    fuji does so many things right, but Y U NO RELEASE FULLFRAME RANGEFINDER?

    so many people would forgive so many things to it…

    also putting leica lenses on crop camera make sense if you already have many or to fight lack of own lenses to chose from, but they lose LOTS of its appeal when used cropped.

  • Curtis

    Wow, I’m actually surprised that it’s only $200, anything that has to do with Leica has to be $2,000 more than what it needs too be

  • Craig

    M lenses will be a good asset to the X-Pro1 if the Fuji body has a focus peaking function. Does it have focus peaking, anyone?

    • Nico

      Right about the lack of focus peaking… But the real interest here would be a focus assist with AF points of the OVF, otherwise Sony’s EVF are still better (and already with focus peaking)…

      • CHD

        First off…I completely agree with the consensus that focus peaking would be great…..BUT..

        I have to say, when using the EVF and manually focussing as a lark on some various test shots I had a 100% success rate on roughly 7 pics…all of them with perfect focus. With that said, the lighting was good and to be honest I was surprised with the success rate as I wasn’t even using the zoom in the viewfinder….

  • kim

    I assume a (for example) 35mm Leica lense will not give an equivalent 35mm view/picture with the X-Pro1 so it would be great if articles like this would include information as to what focal length the various lenses will be equivalent to.

    • http://www.flickr.com/genotypewriter genotypewriter

      It would also be great if people who call themselves “photographers” bothered to learn such a basic thing:

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crop_factor

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