Vintage Lenses for Infrared Photography

Here are the vintage lenses and adapters that I and others have used for Infrared Photography. All have no hot spots in infrared. These can be easiler adapted to most mirrorless cameras via an inexpensive adapter.

Vintage Lenses

Canon FD mount

Lens	Filter Thread	Notes	Tested by
Canon New FD 24mm f/2.8	ø52mm		RS
Canon FD 50mm f/1.4 (KEH Camera)	ø52mm		RS
Canon FD 50mm f/1.8 (KEH Camera)	ø55mm		RS

Contax/Yashica C/Y mount

Lens	Filter Thread	Notes	Tested by
Yashica DSB 135mm f/2.8	ø55mm	converted Fujifilm X-E1 with 720 nm filter, no hotspots all apertures	patpat

Leica mount

Lens	Filter Thread	Notes	Tested by
Leica 135mm f/4 (Leitz Wetzlar Elmar 1960-1965)	ø39mm		Mike

M42 (Pentax) mount

Lens	Filter Thread	Notes	Tested by
MIR-1b 37mm f/2.8	ø49mm		RS
HELIOS 44M 58mm f/2	ø49mm		Gus Potenza
Vivitar Auto 100mm f/2.8	ø52mm		RS

Minolta MD mount

Lens	Filter Thread	Notes	Tested by
Soligor Wide-Auto 35mm f/2.8	ø52mm		RS
Soligor Tele-Auto 135mm f/2.8	ø55mm		RS

Nikon F mount

Lens	Filter Thread	Notes	Tested by
Nikon Nikkor-N Auto 24mm f/2.8	ø52mm		RS
Nikon Zoom-Nikkor 28-45mm f/4.5	ø72mm		RS
Nikon Nikkor-S Auto 50mm f/1.4 (KEH Camera)	ø52mm		RS

Adapters

Fotasy - Adapts many vintage lenses to mirrorless mounts for about $15 USD
Fotodiox Pro TLT ROKR - Adapters vintage lenses to mirrorless mounts and adds Tilt/Shift for about $200

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