Lubitel lens conversion

ProfHankD wrote:

Last Bastion wrote:

I recently placed an order for a Lubitel 2 just to play around with. I saw a blog where someone took the Lubitel lens and fitted it to a Canon EF mount. Has anyone ever done the opposite, and gotten any other lens to work on the Lubitel body?
Obviously, it would need to be a full manual lens, but I'd be interested to turn a cheap 120 body into an ILC!

First off, Mamiya's C330 is a TLR with interchangeable lenses. From that wikipedia page:

Assuming you don't want to simply get one of them, you've got a few issues:

• 120 film is too big for a FF lens to cover. You need a lens that can cover medium format (6x6cm).
• The lenses need to be matched pairs, and they need to fit closely together. The good news is that many TLRs have the front plate move both lenses for focus, in which case at least both lenses will focus together -- avoid the TLRs that use a gear to couple the focus ring on one lens to that of the other, they'll be harder to modify.
• The shutter is in the lens on a TLR, but most other lenses don't have the shutters in them.

All together, this just isn't worth the trouble.

On the other hand, I have a student senior project team building a custom sensor that they are mounting inside an old TLR. The TLR I bought for this is a Ciro-Flex (model "B"?) with Wollensak lenses... and that 1940s camera cost me only $3.99 + shipping via eBay. The nice thing about that is the team's sensor doesn't need to provide a live view for framing and focusing because the top lens does that. I'll report on it after the project team is a bit further along....

Hadn't thought about the coverage issue until you mentioned it.

After I actually got the Lubi in my hands, I realized this whole lens converstion concept is flawed from the start.