Super16 & 2/3 Lenses on HD DSLR ??

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George D.

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I have an experimental project coming up, and I will use special lenses, designed and built many years ago, which I will adapt to a DSLR camera. These lenses were made for Super16 or 2/3 Video and I must use them on a DSLR camera that shoots 1080p HD video.

Hopefully these lenses will fill the frame WITHOUT vignetting, or at least come close enough to be cropped out in post.

I was considering the Canon 5D, but because of its full size sensor, the cropping in post would be severe.

Hopefully, this DSLR camera will be able to render better quality video with its smaller sensor, than the Canon 5D would do “cropped” in post. If not, it would be better to just use the 5D.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to which “DSLR Camera” might just accomplish this? It MUST be a DSLR.

Thanks.
 
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I once tried holding the Fujinon TV Zoom lens in front of my GH1. Unfortunatly, it seems to me that the lens can't be focused well to suit the GH1 sensor and there is some vignetting as well.
 
Sorry, ain't gonna happen. Or, as Scotty once told Capt. Kirk, "Captain, you canna change the laws of physics!"

A lens is designed to project an image circle of a certain size onto the film or imager. Lenses made for super 16 or 2/3" are designed to make a circle that covers that size, but not much more. This helps to keep the lenses smaller than they need to be if they covered larger formats like 35mm.

Either you'll need to use a different camera system, or you'll need to use different lenses, or you'll need to learn to live with the extreme vignetting. Have you checked to see if there's some sort of equivalent lens for 35mm? Have you looked into using your lenses with something like the SI2K?
 
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