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05/09/2004 07:47:07 AM · #1 |
Do we know of a camera that would accept Konica-Minolta and/or Sigma lenses? From the research that I have done, the Nikon's accept Nikon and the Canon, Canon...bnut are there 6+ mgpxl cameras out there with more flexibility in lens choice?
Thanks for any feedback.
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05/09/2004 08:09:24 AM · #2 |
Dynax 7
Message edited by author 2004-05-09 08:10:31. |
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05/09/2004 08:13:42 AM · #3 |
Well, as far as I know, you can get Olympus OM, Nikkor and Pentax-K adaptor for Olympus E-1. I seems to have lost the link at the moment, but there is some guy in Korea making those.
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05/09/2004 09:41:55 AM · #4 |
You can also gt Nikkor and M42 adapters for Canon EOS, however with all of these adapters, you must have manual control of aperture and focus on the lens, since there will be no electrical connection to the body.
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05/09/2004 10:37:39 AM · #5 |
Originally posted by Tranquil:
are there 6+ mgpxl cameras out there with more flexibility in lens choice? |
More flexibility than the Canon EF lens lineup?
As far as I know, Canon has one of the widest (if not the widest) selections of lenses of any camera manufacturer. Not to mention all the third-party lenses from Sigma, Tamron, Tokina, etc. that are available for the EF lens mount.
When you look at something like the Olympus E-series that currently has something like 5 (expensive) lenses available, there really is no comparison...
What kind of specialized lenses are you looking for that Canon doesn't offer? =] |
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05/09/2004 10:47:44 AM · #6 |
Originally posted by EddyG:
...What kind of specialized lenses are you looking for that Canon doesn't offer? =] |
There is currently alot of interest in some of the older wide angle Zeiss glass in M42 mount. It's easy to adapt M42 to Canon EOS, the adapter costs about $20 USD. If the canon lens lineup has a weakness, it's in wide angle.
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05/09/2004 11:12:26 AM · #7 |
When you say "adapt", though, it is in the full manual sense of the word. I realize there are adapters to convert the EF mount to a variety of other mounts, but they are almost exclusively just mechanical adapters -- which means there is no auto-focus capability and no aperture control from the camera. So you have to use stop-down metering, and full manual focus, which can be a bit tricky without a split-prism focusing screen.
I agree that such an adapter can be great for landscapes or architectural type shots where you have a lot of time to set up the shot, but not sure how feasible such "adapted" lenses would be in a situation like a wedding, for example.
That said, I agree that Canon could stand to offer a couple of super-wide-angle primes, and to improve the quality of some of their existing WA primes, since cameras like the 1Ds really require top-notch glass -- being a full-frame camera that utilizes the entire imaging circle (and not a crop of the center portion like almost every other DSLR), it can very easily reveal the limitations of the lenses (in terms of chromatic aberation in the corners, barrel distortion, etc.) |
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