Originally in the analogue era M-mount lenses were only available from Leica, but soon Cosina/Voigtländer and Zeiss started producing M-mount lenses as well. Today also many newer manufacturers from China release original lenses in M-mount as they can easily be adapted to all kinds of mirrorless cameras.
Reviews
Fisheye
Ultra Wide Angle
- Laowa 9mm 5.6 FF-RL
- Voigtländer 12mm 5.6 Ultra Wide Heliar (M39)
- Voigtländer 15mm 4.5 VM Super Wide Heliar II
- MS-Optics 17mm 4.5 Perar
- Zeiss ZM 18mm 4.0 Distagon
- Funleader 18mm 8.0 Cap Lens
21mm
24mm
28mm
- 7artisans 28mm 1.4 FE-Plus
- Voigtländer Ultron 28mm 2.0 MK I
- Voigtländer Ultron 28mm 2.0 MK II Type I
- TTArtisan 28mm 5.6 M
- 7Artisans 28mm 5.6 M Wen
35mm
- Voigtländer 35mm 1.2 VM Nokton III
- MS-Optics 35mm 1.3 II Slim Apoqualia
- 7Artisans 35mm 1.4 M IF
- TTArtisan 35mm 1.4
- Leica Summilux 35mm 1.4 FLE Asph
- MS-Optics 35mm 1.4 Apoqualia
- Zeiss ZM Distagon 35mm 1.4 T*
- Voigtlander Ultron 35mm 1.7
- Voigtländer Apo-Lanthar 35mm 2.0
- TTArtisan 35mm 2.0 Apo
- 7Artisans 35mm 2.0 Wen
- Jupiter-12 35mm 2.8
50mm
- Zhong Yi 50mm 0.95 M
- TTArtisan 50mm 0.95
- MS-Optics 50mm 1.0 ISM
- Syoptic 50mm 1.1
- Mr. Ding 50mm 1.1
- 7Artisans 50mm 1.1
- MS-Optics 50mm 1.1 Sonnetar
- MS-Optics 50mm 1.3 Sonnetar Slim
- Voigtlander VM 50mm 1.2 Nokton
- TTArtisan 50mm 1.4
- Nikon Nikkor-S 50mm 1.4
- Zeiss C-Sonnar 50mm 1.5
- Voigtlander VM 50mm 1.5 Nokton
- Voigtländer VM 50mm 1.5 Nokton II MC
- Jupiter-3 50mm 1.5
- Nikon Nikkor-H 50mm 2.0
75mm
- MS-Optics 73mm 1.5 Sonnetar
- Leica Summilux M 75mm 1.4
- Voigtlander Nokton 75mm F1.5
- Voigtlander Heliar 75mm F1.8
85mm
90mm
135mm
- MS-Optics Aporis 135mm 2.4 MC Fluorit
- Leica Apo-Telyt-M 135mm 3.4
- Leica Tele-Elmar M 135mm 4.0
- Jupiter-11 135mm 4.0
Adapters for Sony E-mount cameras
For a general overview have a look at our Adapter guide.
For M-mount lenses so called Close Focus Adapters are popular that work as a variable extension tube and reduce the usually quite high close focusing distance of your Leica M lenses.
A very special adapter is the Techart LM-EA9 that turns your manual focus M-mount lenses into auto focus lenses.
Issues
Most rangefinder lenses (especially wide angle ones) do not perform as well on a digital camera as on film. For a very geeky analysis check out this lensrentals.com article, for a short comprehension have a look at our article Rangefinder wide angle lenses on A7 cameras: problems and solutions.
The most important factor is the filter stack thickness in front of the sensor. Leica has minimized the thickness of this sensor so that most lenses perform closer to film on their Leica M10, M9 or M240 series cameras. Sony uses a much thicker sensor stack with all their A7/A9/A1 series cameras but it can be replaced by a thin one and then the cameras perform as well as the Leicas.
I don’t know why but the link to the R lenses is leading me to this page dedicated to the M and LTM mounts
should be fixed
Thank you for your review of the Jupiter 3 on Sony – I use a new similar rig – Sony A7II + L ME Helicoid + Jupiter 3 ( 1961 )
I notice that subject lines of the photo tend to be broken – is there a way to fix this?
anyadater recomendation for sony A7II+ Jupiter9/helios44/industar50 ( m39 slr Zenit)