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I'm guessing most of you that have a gh2 with a lens adapter already know how easy it is to make your Canon fd lens function as it's been de-clicked. But for those of you that don't, here's an easy free and quick way that involves no work what so ever.
When shooting video, it can be useful to have your lens de-clicked, Why? because you can get in between the clicks, for more variation, and you can change aperature smoothly while shooting, not that it happens a lot, but there's times when it would be nice to change smoothly without causing you camera to shake in the middle of a shot.
Some people send their lens out to have them de-clicked (duclos will do this), some open the lens and de-click it themselves. Which takes time and can be risky if your not very handy.
When you look inside your m4/3rds to FD adapter, you will see a little metal post sticking up. When you move the iris ring on the adapter you will see the post move back and forth with it. This post catches, and engages the longest metal post on your Canon fd lens, which in turn gives you the ability to change your f-stop with the ring on the adapter instead of the lens, SMOOTHLY, and with inbetween stops. Also it wont pop out of place like it does when trying to use inbetween stops on a non-declicked lens.
If you simply close the aperature on your lens all the way,( f-22 or whatever it is on your lens), Make sure your lens is mounted on the adapter correctly (if you don't have the adapter post in the right spot when mounting the lens, it won't be able to engage the post on the lens to make the iris open and close) then use the ring on your adapter, your now able to control your f-stop without those damn clicks..
**** Remember****
If you dont close the iris on the lens all the way, it will only change to whatever the f-stop on the lens at that time. So say your lens is at f-8, then the adapter can only change from f8-f1.4, thats why I say to remember to close it all the way, so you can use the entire f-stop range of the lens your using.
As I said before, most of you will already know this little trick, but for new people using the gh2 with fd glass, it may be helpful.
When shooting video, it can be useful to have your lens de-clicked, Why? because you can get in between the clicks, for more variation, and you can change aperature smoothly while shooting, not that it happens a lot, but there's times when it would be nice to change smoothly without causing you camera to shake in the middle of a shot.
Some people send their lens out to have them de-clicked (duclos will do this), some open the lens and de-click it themselves. Which takes time and can be risky if your not very handy.
When you look inside your m4/3rds to FD adapter, you will see a little metal post sticking up. When you move the iris ring on the adapter you will see the post move back and forth with it. This post catches, and engages the longest metal post on your Canon fd lens, which in turn gives you the ability to change your f-stop with the ring on the adapter instead of the lens, SMOOTHLY, and with inbetween stops. Also it wont pop out of place like it does when trying to use inbetween stops on a non-declicked lens.
If you simply close the aperature on your lens all the way,( f-22 or whatever it is on your lens), Make sure your lens is mounted on the adapter correctly (if you don't have the adapter post in the right spot when mounting the lens, it won't be able to engage the post on the lens to make the iris open and close) then use the ring on your adapter, your now able to control your f-stop without those damn clicks..
**** Remember****
If you dont close the iris on the lens all the way, it will only change to whatever the f-stop on the lens at that time. So say your lens is at f-8, then the adapter can only change from f8-f1.4, thats why I say to remember to close it all the way, so you can use the entire f-stop range of the lens your using.
As I said before, most of you will already know this little trick, but for new people using the gh2 with fd glass, it may be helpful.