GH2 Looking for a Lens adapter for Canon Eos to Micro 4/3 with aperture control

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J.F.R.

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I use a sigma 28mm that I love dearly, I want to be able to control aperture on the fly and for it to work perfect. Anyone have any ideas or recommendations?

Thanks
 
Redrock LiveLens, or MTF Services, both make adapters that allow electronic iris control of Canon lenses. Other companies that may someday release adapters include Birger, Metabones, and Kipon, but if you want one that's available now your choices are Redrock or MTF.
 
Barry_Green said:
Redrock LiveLens, or MTF Services, both make adapters that allow electronic iris control of Canon lenses. Other companies that may someday release adapters include Birger, Metabones, and Kipon, but if you want one that's available now your choices are Redrock or MTF.
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Thank you Barry, those adapters are to rich for my blood currently (especially for a sub $500- lens). I honestly do not want to pay more than $200 for an adapter. If I have to I'm just going to buy a native micro 4/3 lens such as the Voightlander 17.5mm or 25mm.
 
No electronic adapter exists in that price range; the RedRock is the least expensive.

The Voigtlanders are excellent lenses...
 
Barry_Green said:
Of course, there's also the Kipon iris adapter... that's in your price range...
http://www.amazon.com/Kipon-EOS-m4-Adapter-Aperture-Control/dp/B004XGFIZY

But it's not an electronic adapter, it has its own physical iris, so I wouldn't expect that it would meet your initial requirement of having it "work perfect"...
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The problem with that adapter is it is marked from 1 - 6 and I read causes vignettes and on top of that you might need ND filters to truly control the image more. Shame I have to sell my Canon EOS lenses. Maybe I might look for an old FD 24mm lens by Canon in the mean time...
As always thank you for your time Barry, I'm still very young in this art and at the moment still funding everything so I don't have all of the money I would like for the gear.
thank you
 
Blue Bomber said:
http://www.amazon.com/EzFoto-adapte...TF8&qid=1344466634&sr=1-1&keywords=eos+to+gh2

Worth a shot...
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Thanks for the link I might use it in the meantine, problem is it looks like it only goes to f/2.8

Also to reply to the other poster I don't want to be guessing my aperture. I might record a scene in door then outdoors. So when I have to stop down the lens it looks like that adapter causes very bad vignettes, therefore I would need an ND to keep it arounfd 3-4 to avoid that probkem.... Real headache
 
An adapter that controls aperture on the fly which costs no more than $200 doesn't exist (at least for now). I'd suggest you to have a cheap used Canon EOS camera just to set the aperture every time you want.
 
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