About to buy a GH1 – please help!

Jean you can get that Ciecio7's FD adapter with a discount if you will contact him by e-mail and decide to buy outside of ebay.
 
yslee said:
See the inside of the lens caps. Should be 62 and 52 respectively.
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Thanks for answering my ultra n00b question :)

Martti Ekstrand said:
Fader / Vari-NDs are a good fast solution in many situations but they can make the sky shift in colour and lightness when panning / tilting. Ditto for reflections in objects like cars and streets. Gets even more noticeable when handheld and dutching the cam around the optical axis.
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Hmmm, that doesn't sound good...

snicky said:
Jean you can get that Ciecio7's FD adapter with a discount if you will contact him by e-mail and decide to buy outside of ebay.
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Awesome! Thanks for the tip!!

So Ciecio7's FD adapter is the one everyone swears by?

Thanks again guys! Much appreciated!! :)
 
danny dale said:
Did you get in touch with Ceicio? And if so did you get a discount?
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Nah, not yet. I'm still trying to find out if the Ceicio7 is the best adapter for FD lenses at the moment...

I have a FD 50mm F1.4, but I'm not sure what type of breech-lock it has...(I don't know much about lenses, I'm new to all this). So I gotta make sure Ceicio7's adapter is right for my lens before I buy it...
 
I have FDs with both type of locks, the silver ring and the later type twist-back-and-forth-into-place ones. Both work fine with the ciecio7 adapter.
 
Martti Ekstrand said:
I have FDs with both type of locks, the silver ring and the later type twist-back-and-forth-into-place ones. Both work fine with the ciecio7 adapter.
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nice... that is info I needed to know. Do you happen to know if it works with the older FL lenses? I sent Ciecio7 a message through eBay but haven't heard back from him. Does anybody have an email address for him? Hoping to get a discount... :thumbsup:
 
Ben_B said:
Sandisk Ultra II Class 4 works great! Good prices too. If you have a costco membership and there's one nearby you can pick em up locally for a decent price close to internet...$30 or so for 2 x 4GB cards.

Agree on Ciecio7 adapter...I got my nikon one from Jack Daniel Stanley but I am pretty sure it is a Ciecio7.

For ND filters I am using a Tiffen 62mm thread 0.9 ND filter and plan to get a 0.3 and a 0.6. I also have a step up ring, 52mm to 62mm so I can use it for my nikon lenses, and plan to, at some point, get a step down ring so I can use it with this sigma lens I have that is 77mm (but the glass is closer to 52mm.) I know people prefer the mounts and variable ones and such but this works great for me and is very simple and cheap and you're not committed to buying lots of filters...so far just the 0.9 has been working well for me....I figure if I need to cut fewer than 3 stops I will just stop down...but I will probably pick up a less intense filter @ some point.
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Hey Ben_B are you using the single or multi-coated Tiffens? I know multi-coated is better and highly recommended, but the single coated ones are so much cheaper and I think they would probably be good enough for me for now.
 
The ciecio7 FD adapter works great but I did have a couple issues that are more like personal peeves.

1. The screws holding the silver lens mount mysteriously loosened 5 minutes after installation. Initially I thought it was a defective adapter because the lens began wobbling 1mm up/down/left/right. Easy fix. Took a jeweler's phillip screwdriver and snugged all screws. That cured the massive lens wobble. When you receive the adapter, make sure all screws are tightened before use.

2. The aperture locking ring on the adapter (ring with the green dot) rotates too easy. It needs a more defined "click" so to speak. I find myself accidently nudging the ring occasionally, especially when I'm fidgeting with the lens aperture. Maybe it's me being careless and unconsciously grabbing the wrong ring, but in my opinion the adapter ring that locks the aperture into place shouldn't loosen that easy. When the ring loosens, the lens aperture ends up closing down.

Other than those issues, the FD adapter works awesome. I'm currently using a Canon 50mm f1.8 with an ND4 in the sun but I need an ND8 since 1.8 is still over exposed.

Good luck with your setup.
 
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