GH1 lens adapters...great price and in US

Ian Slessor

Ian Slessor

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Hey all,

Don't know this guy but I just purchased a Canon FD adapter for my GH1 on eBay.

Price was under $40 with free shipping out of NY state.

The adapter is all metal, solid and well built. I'm quite pleased with it.

I won't pimp him but I will give you the link if you pm me.

He has adapters for many different lenses and at, frankly, cheap prices. Most are under $40 and free shipping.

As I said, my Canon FD adapter is solid and if that's any indication then the rest of his lens adapters will be of a similar quality.

I'm thinking of Nikon adapter next, perhaps.

Anyway, as I said, interested? pm me....or check my sig for a hint. ;)

sincerely,


ian
 
Lake Films said:
What about Nikon lens'? Will it work for them? Thanks.
Click to expand...

He also has adapters for Nikon F ($70 CDN incl shipping) and Nikon AI ($41 incl shipping) lenses.

Then he has them for Leica M, Leica M39, Olympus OM, Contax C/Y, M42 mount and more.

The Canon FD mount I picked up is solid and the price was half of what some are charging WITH free shipping to me up here in America's Hat.©

Check him out by..um.. finding his name in my sig. ;) heh.

sincerely,


ian
 
I also got my adpater from R*inb*ow and it works great. It also has a dial on it so that you can open/close the apeture w/out any clicks.
 
I purchased one from HK but I keep getting an error

"Please check that the lens is attached correctly"

if I press the front dial the picture appears and I can adjust apature & focus but when I press the shutter the error comes back

any ideas? or have I bought a dud - I've got a few nice FD lenses I'm eager to try out
 
No no no -- you're fine. You need to look through your menus. I have neither my camera nor my book in front of me, but there's an option to "Shoot without lens attached". You need to enable that.

I think you need to have the camera in a mode other than Red-Auto mode, and then go to probably the Wrench menu.

The camera is looking for a computerized lens. Since the lens adaptor is just a hunk of metal, it can't 'talk' to the camera, so the camera thinks there's no lens attached.
 
I don't understand the "aperture control ring" on the rainbow imaging FD adapter... the ceiclo one doesn't seem to have one. Don't FD lens have their own manual aperture control? I want to order an FD adapter ASAP and prefer to get one quicker from a U.S. vendor but don't want to get the wrong one... there seem to be a lot more Ebay vendors selling GH1 adapters all of the sudden. What's the best model that y'all have come across from all these new vendors?
 
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Hey lux,

I'm at work right now but I'll play with my adapter when I get home tonight and clarify what the aperture control ring does.

sincerely,

ian
 
Thanks! I noticed in shzr's post that it perhaps allows for aperture control without the click-stops? so it gives you a smooth, continuous aperture control as opposed to preset stops? hopefully you can do it either way, I would kinda like the stops so that I don't accidentally change it during shooting.
 
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