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Specifications:
- It allow infinity focus
- For Panasonic, Olympus Micro 4/3 lens
- Adapter has no electrical connection/diaphragm and focusing
- This item is made of aluminum and brass
- Allow AE priority / stop-down manual metering
- This is a original product
- Size: 29 x 64mm / 1.1 x 2.5in(H x Dia.)
Details:
- This is a new, premium quality lens adapter for your Panasonic G1/GH1 or other Micro 4/3 Camera
- The Mount Adapter Ring is aluminum and the lens mount is brass chromed silver
- The Canon Lens Adapter can be fitted in its reverse position onto the camera body with the filter adapter
- Canon Lens Ring Adapter offers a range of adapter from large format to smaller format digital adapters
- The Mount Adapter Ring allows AE priority / stop-down manual metering
- This Lens Ring Adapter has no electrical connection/diaphragm and focusing
- Made of aluminum and brass, this Mount Adapter Ring allows you to attach any lens
How to Choose Adapter Ring?
- First of all you have to buy the appropriate physical lens adapter required to get your lens attached to your camera. For this you should consult your favourite camera shop . But a number of manufacturers build simple metal ring adapters that let you attach various types of lenses
- If you've got, for example, a lens designed for an old Pentax threaded (screw mount) camera like the Pentax Spotmatic you'll need an adapter for M42 lenses. Same with the new line of Carl Zeiss ZS lenses, which also use M42. If you have a telescope you'll probably need a T-mount adapter, assuming your telescope has the ability to be hooked up to a camera at all. Or if you have a Nikon lens you'll need an adapter that lets you fit Nikon F lenses to your EOS body. Likewise Leica R, Leica Visoflex, Olympus OM, Contax/Yashica RTS, Rollei, and Contax manual focus, or even big Hasselblad, Mamiya 645, Pentacon 66, Pentax 645 and Pentax 6x7 medium format lenses can all be adapted. Microscopes apparently often require C-mount adapters. Tamron built a series of Adaptall II lenses and you can still occasionally find used Adaptall II->EOS adapters around. I have links to some sources for these adapters at the end of the page
- Most adapters are simply metal rings with an EF bayonet on one side; And since the EF mounting ring is larger in diameter than most 35mm SLR lens mounts quite a few lenses can be adapted to the EOS system
Adapter ring compatibility problems and infinity focus
- The most common problem is that of lens registration - the distance from the lens mount to the film plane. It may not be possible to build a lens adapter that gets this distance right for certain lens mount systems
- For example, the back focus distance (distance from the rearmost lens element to the film plane) on EOS cameras is 44mm, but on Leica rangefinder cameras it's 27.8mm. Matching the back focus distance would require a lens mounted deep inside the camera body; not usually an option. In cases such as this you may either have to buy an adapter ring that won't let you achieve infinity focus or you'll have to get an adapter ring which contains one or more glass lens elements and which will inevitably degrade the image quality somewhat. These compensating elements let you achieve focus to infinity, though at the expense of image quality. Contax G, Konica F, Leica M, Minolta MD and Miranda lenses are other lens mounts with back focus distances less than that of Canon EOS
- There is also the case of lenses which have lens register distances very close to that of a true Canon EF lens. Contax/Yashica lenses (45.5mm) and Canon EF lenses (44mm), for example, have only a 1.5mm difference in lens registration, and 1.5 is awfully thin for a metal ring adapter. Such adapters have to be machined to incredibly close tolerances in order for infinity focus to work, which means they can be quite expensive. Cheaper ones often have to be sanded down to maintain infinity focus - but even that is something of a dodgy proposition as you have to sand the surface down accurately from one side to the other, down to a fraction of a millimetre
- Also appears that it isn't possible to make adapter rings that let you mount Pentax K (bayonet mount) lenses on EOS cameras with EF lens mounts. The Pentax K diaphragm coupling lever physically interferes with such a possibility. So you'd have to modify the lens (or the camera) to make such a conversion possible. Note that this does not apply to cameras compatible with the EF-S mount. The design of the EF-S mount, with its smaller mirror box thanks to the 1.6x crop factor, coincidentally permits the use of such lens adapters
- Finally, and this isn't strictly to do with manual focus lenses per se, but you can't use Minolta Vectis or Four Thirds (Olympus, Kodak, Fuji, Sanyo, Sigma, Panasonic and Leica) lenses on EOS cameras. These lenses, in addition to being autofocus lenses, cast very small image circles; much too small to cover the imaging area of EOS cameras. In theory I suppose the Vectis lens design might cover an EF-S sensor, but it would probably be pointlessly expensive to make such an adapter
Package Included:
- 1 x MASSA Adapter for Canon EOS Lens to Panasonic G1 GH1 Micro 4/3
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06-14-2011- Other Thoughts: You must be careful when installing this adapter to lens, to ensure the lens won't fall off...it's tricky. Strongly advise installing adapter to lens and leaving it on, and purchasing adapters for each lens rather than switching from lens to lens. <br/> <br/>Works fine, it's somewhat cheaply made, but baby it and you'll be fine.
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I. Saab
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04-08-2011- Other Thoughts: My Fotodiox Canon adapter arrived in just 4 days. Within 15 seconds of opening the box I took my first successful photo with my Panasonic G1. Installation could be simpler.
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M. Connell
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04-14-2011- Other Thoughts: This adapter is well made and fits snugly on my E-PL1 and each lens that I've tried. I have used it with Canon FD, new FD, and FL lenses with no problems. It does take a little practice getting things lined up, as others have alluded to. I like this feature, as it's a simple and consistent way to go between wide open for focusing and stopping down to the shooting aperture. Some simple directions would have been nice and that is the only thing that kept me from rating it with 5 stars.
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hj
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05-07-2011- Other Thoughts: I used this adapter to mount Canon EOS lenses on a Panasonic G1. Because the aperture on EOS lenses is controlled electronically, you can only shoot wide open with this adapter.
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W. M. Johns
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04-27-2011- Other Thoughts: Not much more to be said. Bought this for the Panasonic GH1, you just need to go into the user menu and activate the "Use camera without lens" feature so the Lumix stops telling you to check the lens.
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