is there anyway to mount a b4 lens on this camera?
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Yes there are B4 mounts made already; I even have one but haven't tried it out. I think the mount I have is B4->Canon FD, and then you'd use an FD->M43 adapter, but if you root around on ebay you might even find a B4->m43 adapter.
As Noel said, it's of limited usefulness because B4 lenses are designed to cover a 2/3" chip, which is less than 1/4 the size of the AF100's chip. So you'll have to zoom in quite a bit, and use an optical doubler, in order to get full coverage without vignetting. And of course there's no way to power the zoom or auto-iris.
So yes it can be done. Whether it's a practical solution, well, that's another question.
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Here is short answer.
Any B4 zoom 2/3" lens with 2x extender works fine on m4/3 bodies.
Without extender you'll get heavy vingetting.
In GH1 sections you can find large thread about this.
Converters are very rare and costly.
Sometimes I don't get Panasonic. Why they do not produce cheap ($30) converters to B4 and few other ENG lenses mounts?
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Is there a crop video mode? ..... it would make so much sense if they could have a 2/3" crop mode for us to use PL 16mm lenses and such.
(assuming the sensor is larger than 1920x1080)stylecreative.net - Designer/Video/Music bloke
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