EDMIKA INC.

04/05/2021

Rest in peace dad

01/30/2021

85L SRG design production ready.

01/24/2021

I never sold a single one of these actually. Nikon people are as dogmatic as Canon people.

10/19/2019

Hi this is Ed Mika. My wife and I are doing our best to train our son Kai to run the CNC mills. Beyond other factors It's been a struggle but we are making progress. All orders, including PayPal cancelled ones will be processed and mailed and those not cancelled will be offered our appreciation based consideration. I'm not certain if we will open up sales directly to public again but until we get back up to speed please reach out to SIMMOD LENS. Thanks to those many who have been very supportive, its helped on a very personal level. -Jakub Edward Mika

10/12/2019

Sorry everyone.

09/28/2019

Our webshop has been closed until further notice. Sorry for the inconvenience - Mick

06/27/2018

gif showing focus movement in this close to final Canon 50mm f0.95 rangefinder lens EF conversion concept (limited to mirrorless bodies like RED unfortunately because of mirror box interference), prototyping starts tomorrow!

06/25/2018

Canon 50/0.95 lens rehousing concept update. Purple backbone will be made from one piece and original aperture control ring will be retained.

06/25/2018

Canon 50mm f0.95 Dreamlens rehousing concept development. Prototyping has begun. This will only work for mirrorless bodies with EF mounts.

01/21/2018

The winners of the 1000 likes challenge who get a free EDMIKA EF conversion kit of their choice are Markus John, Jack Brodie, Sean Erickson, Ángyán László and Norbert Lack! Please message me your kit preference and your mailing address. Congratulations from Ed of EDMIKA Inc. and Mick of EDMIKA Europe.

01/11/2018

A great resource for FD conversion instruction has been put together by a very helpful fan in Japan. Thank you Kuni for your excellent efforts. https://sites.google.com/view/fd2eos/convertsion/assembly

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12/18/2017

A nice email a happy customer sent me today:

Hi there, here Clement,

Early last week, I got the conversion kit I ordered.

Because I had a lot of fashion shoots in Paris during the week, I wasn’t able to test it before Saturday.

I must say that, when I ordered the kit, I was a little bit worried because I knew the pentaprism housing of the 1 DX Mk2 and the 5 DsR is bulging a lot more towards the front than the former new F1. So I was wondering how axial rotation would be possible.

Now I tip my hat because the idea to rotate the lens by 180° so the mechanism points down has some genius in it !

I opened the 4 screws and rotated the rest of the lens another 180° : now the lens is like it was originally, simply with the shift sleigh rotated and the mechanism pointing down. The tilting mechanism and both iris ring and focusing ring are pointing up.

A simple idea with a great result !

I purchased this lens 1977 (40 years ago) and for 30 years it was one of my favorite lenses (I did more than 200000 photos with it). I was so disappointed when the end of film came and I could no longer use the F1 and angry with Canon they did not make an EF version of that lens. I have the TS-E 24, but it is so wide you can’t use it most of the time.

Can you imagine that lens, after a 10 year vacation, it is coming back to active duty : fabulous. I must say that optically, the TS 35 is still on par with today’s best L lenses.

I will start spreading the word in Paris because many fellow photographers still have 5 or 10 FD lenses that were and still are fabulous. We all use them on Sony mirrorless cameras, but you simply can’t compare these with a 1DX Mk2