Adapter for Zeiss Conterex to Canon EOS

[johnastovall]

[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]I have a lovely Zeiss 250mm 1:4,0 Sonnar from my old Contarex system. I hate to think about that lovely glass just sitting on the shelf.

Has anyone ever had made and adapter for this lens to the Canon EF mount? Since unlike other Contarex lenses the stop is controlled by a manual preset, it could be use rather easily.

Know any one who might be able to make one?

Here's what the beast looks like. It's all machined brass.
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[robmac]

I haven't seen one (yet) direct, but you may be able to accomplish the goal via a T-mount set-up?

 

[johnastovall]

The Contarex mount is a strange beast and I don't see much of a way of fitting a T-Mount to it.

I think I'm going to have to find some one to remove the current mount and just put on properly made EF mount on the lens barrel. which should be fairly straight forward. The Contarex had a 46mm F-F.

 

[johnastovall]

Any suggestion about who might do this sort of work?

 

[Johann Wolfgang]

Hello John,

I would ask the guys from happypagehk in HongKong. They offer adaptors for different mounts, maybe also for your contarex-lens. I bought my Leica-R to EOS-EF adaptor with AF-confirm. It works very good.

Regards
Johann

 

[johnastovall]

No Joy, I had checked their list. The Contarex was a strange beast to say the least. I do like happypagehk's adapters for my Ziess and Zuiko 21mm's.

Way back in the '60's the Contarex had apperture controlled from the body with a few exceptions via a very complex mechanical linkage. So you can't manually set the apperture. The 250 Sonnar and 18mm Distagon were the few exceptions.

This going to have to be custom project.