About a year or two ago, I wrote an article for Michael Johnston’s newsletter, The 37th Frame, which ultimately morphed into The Online Photographer, about using non-Canon lenses on Canon full frame dSLRs. The article resides on my website, as it is too long to put up as a blog post. Nonetheless, I thought that it might prove interesting to some people and thought that, as today’s post, I would put up a link to it. The article can be read here.
Though it specifically addresses Canon cameras, which is what I use, my understanding is that the article would be directly applicable to Nikon cameras as well. The only exception would be that a Contax to Nikon adapter would obviously be required, as opposed to one made for adapting Contax to Canon.In addition, Joe Reifer, in his excellent blog entitled Words, wrote a review about using Olympus Zuiko lenses on full frame Canon cameras. That can be read here.
2 comments:
Hi Howard -
Canon's camera bodies are thinner -- that's what makes them easier to use with other brands of lenses. From Bob Atkins:
"A mechanical adapter which allows a lens to be mounted on an EOS body and focused to infinity is only possible if the lens is designed to focus an image at a distance greater than that of EOS EF series lenses. This is because you need some space for the mechanical adapter between the EOS body and the lens."
See the rest of this excellent article on flange to focal plane distance here.
Cheers,
Joe
Joe, thanks for adding that info and the link.
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