Fujinon 50mm 1.4 EBC M42

Impressions: The web is full of references about the colors of Fujinon EBC lenses.   This lens combines the famous colors of Fuji with an ultra high image quality.  Not only you can see the quality of this lens in your images, you also will see in the construction of the lens when you open it up.  In fact you have to open this lens in order to convert it to manual aperture.  I bought this lens recently (in 2014) from ebay for $180 including shipping.

Here are some pictures at f11:

Here is a picture at f1.4:

Here are some pictures of the Fujinon 50mm 1.4 EBC on my Canon 5DII:

Mod: Two little mods are required to use this lens on 5DII.  They are both quite easy and reversible.

1) Conversion of the auto aperture to manual aperture otherwise the aperture always stays wide open.  Please refer to this link for the conversion instructions.  Be careful if you use a thick tube around the pin, it will interfere with focusing.

2) Freeing up the aperture ring:  I had to shave the adaptor so that it does not interfere with the little protrution on the back of the aperture ring.  You can see the rectangular protrusion at 4 o'clock on the aperture ring.

Here is the picture of the rear side with the shaved M42/EF adaptor:

and here are some more pictures of the shaved adaptor next to a new adaptor:

PS:  The same two mods are necessary for all Fujinon and Mamiya M42 lenses.

Rating: Not enough data yet (An educated guess: 9 out of 10)