kipon adapter for eos glass - first impressions

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mr bill

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http://philipbloom.net/2010/12/17/ne-adaptor-for-using-you-canon-eos-lenses-on-gh1-gh2-af101/

I bought the above as I've got a fair bit of canon glass which I'd like to use on my new gh13. First impressions are of very high quality machining - solid bit of kit. You'll need to use this with a variable nd filter for critical exposure control, as there is vignetting once you stop the adapter down past the '3' mark. EF type lenses that do work - Tokina 11-16mm, canon 50 f1.4, canon 80mm f1.8. What's disappointing is my 70-200 f2.8L II doesn't look at all nice (some very strange optical distortion going on here) and my 100-300L doesn't work at all (it is a very old but very nice bit of glass).

It doesn't look like it works with many ef-s type lenses - my tokina doesn't work - and the list they include of lenses that don't work includes the following -
10-22mm, 15-85mm, 17-55mm, 18-55mm, 18-135mm, 18-200mm, 55-250mm, 60mm.

For £90, I think it's a worthwhile investment - the tokina 11-16, canon 50mm 1.4 and the 80mm f1.8 all look great and will give me quality low-light and shallow dof options without
having to spring for new lenses. Long lens lo-light stuff I suppose I'll go back to the 60D for.
 
Update - tried the 70-200 again and it does work - not quite sure what I was doing before. So big yipee for us with ef glass!
 
Nice news! I'm glad that Tokina 11-16 works fine with it. Could you post some sample shots with this lens when adapter's iris is in "open", "at 3", "more closed" positions?
 
So what's the response? Hot or cold? What I can't figure out is if this is a "valid move". What I mean by that is, could this be a product that appears to solve a problem but doesn't take into account that it defies the laws of physics? A clumsy answer to an apparent problem? You can make a pin hole film camera out of an Quaker Oats container. What if you made a small hole with your fingers as the "lens" as you opened the shutter? Valid move? I have shown the adapter to at least five different shooters in my shop and have come to the conclusion that you need to bring your lenses, get your hands on it and see what the results are. Stevie Ray Vaughn grabbed the neck of the guitar like it was a baseball bat and his thumb came over the top. A classically trained guitarist would never do that. Both people are "playing the guitar" though. With the Kipon adapter or Birger, when we see it, will have both shooters "using a camera". Right? No lens has blades at the back of it. Lenses have blades in between a front a rear element, minimum, some lenses have multiple elements. That said, why can't you just have the blades at the back? Of course the resting position of lenses is to snap the aperture all the way open, so no adjustments there. I'm rambling.
 
Please can you tell me if this adaptor should work with my canon fit Tamron 28-300mm af spherical xr 3.5-6.3 macro and tamron sp 10-24mm 3.5-4.5 lenses,or only the birger ef - m43 adaptor.
 
Flinty, if the lens is a Canon mount, it fits. You can use it with FD or EF lenses. You have no control over the auto focus or aperture or anything else electronic in the lens. Edit: I was wrong.

Correction: The FD mount is an old breech-lock mount that's very different from the EOS mount.... Thanks Kin Lau!
 
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goetzpd said:
Flinty, if the lens is a Canon mount, it fits. You can use it with FD or EF lenses. You have no control over the auto focus or aperture or anything else electronic in the lens.
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Thats what i feared, so as the lenses have no aperture control of their own the adaptor is no good for them,manual focus is no problem.
 
goetzpd said:
Flinty, if the lens is a Canon mount, it fits. You can use it with FD or EF lenses. You have no control over the auto focus or aperture or anything else electronic in the lens.
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The Canon FD mount is _not_ compatible with the Canon EF mount.

The FD mount is the old completely mechanical mount, the EF is the current completely electronic mount.
 
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