useful: 49mm female <==> 49mm female adapter

johan · Post by **johan** » Wed Sep 26, 2012 2:16 am

A note for anyone looking for these as they're rarer than hen's teeth. I have just purchased some through macrorings.com and they're good quality, arrived quickly etc. Only 5US each - see here: 49mm female to female adapter

Harold Gough · Post by **Harold Gough** » Wed Sep 26, 2012 2:57 am

Were the P & P reasonable?

Harold

seta666 · Post by **seta666** » Thu Sep 27, 2012 8:05 am

Very useful indeed; I was going bananas trying to find something similar and at the end I got a M42 female-female removing the M42 ring from the t2-m42 adapter ( ebay example 251063646028)

Regards

crisarg · Post by **crisarg** » Thu Sep 27, 2012 10:01 am

Thanks, I was looking for something like that for my yet to arrive Olympus 65-116 tube.

Harold Gough · Post by **Harold Gough** » Thu Mar 14, 2013 3:09 am

Thanks, Johan.

I bought three.

My first application is getting out of a fix to get my Olympus T28 macro flash ring (or the T10 ring flash), both 49mm female, mounted on my 55mm threaded Elmarit.

I have step rings to get from 49mm up towards the 55mm but they are too wide to enter the recess around the Olympus 49mm thread. So, I used a 49mm female to 49mm female. I then used reversed step rings (the first was a 49 male to 52 male getting the male threads towards the lens from that point) to attain a 55mm female facing the lens.

Harold

Craig Gerard · Post by **Craig Gerard** » Thu Mar 14, 2013 3:34 am

seta666 wrote:Very useful indeed; I was going bananas trying to find something similar and at the end I got a M42 female-female removing the M42 ring from the t2-m42 adapter ( ebay example 251063646028)

Regards

Javier,

Are you familiar with this item:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/290861230439

Craig

rjlittlefield · Post by **rjlittlefield** » Thu Mar 14, 2013 10:02 am

For 49mm female-to-female, I use the inside of a through-threaded 52-to-49 step down ring, like HERE .

For 42x1.0 female-to-female, I repurpose a through-threaded M42-to-Canon adapter, like HERE.

Both of them look a little odd but fit well for my purposes.

--Rik

Harold Gough · Post by **Harold Gough** » Fri Mar 22, 2013 8:26 am

Today I was getting thoroughly frustrated over my inability to fit my T10 or T28 ring to the back of my reversed Schneider 40mm. The missing link was a female to female M42 to M42.

In desperation, I removed the 46-42mm step ring from the front, where it gets me towards 49mm for mounting the flash rings. The lens had its adapter ring to M42 in place. I was trying to make a push fit when I found that the was threaded internally, with M42.

This is the item but, as Rik points out, there are other options:

Ebay item 280870278008 (just Google the number).

As is the way with life, I discovered this after hours of fiddling with rings and adapters but only minutes after ordering the genuine article (Craig's link) off Ebay at more than three times the price.

At least the new one will be in bright metal and easy to find among all the others.

Harold

rayB · Post by **rayB** » Fri May 10, 2013 5:47 pm

Johan, I owe you a big thank you.

I've been looking unsuccessfully for various female/female adapters for a while now. Your lead is very much appreciated. As of last night, they are still USD5.00 each. My order is now on it's way

Regards.

rayB