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PostPosted: Mon Nov 23, 2009 12:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
AFter checking this thread, it is obvious that so many forum members fancy nikkor lenses and I believe these lenses are for Nikon's Smile

Any way to use them with Canon EOS series? Are they AF?


PostPosted: Mon Nov 23, 2009 8:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Tharos wrote:
AFter checking this thread, it is obvious that so many forum members fancy nikkor lenses and I believe these lenses are for Nikon's Smile

Any way to use them with Canon EOS series? Are they AF?


Yes, you can adapt them to EOS and no, you don't have AF. Wink


PostPosted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 7:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Which adaptor should I use for that? And which Nikkor lense would be a good, affordable start?


PostPosted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 3:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I have started a new topic with these questions in order to keep the other thread clear.

You can find many Nikon-EOS-adapters on EBAY. Most of them are of decent quality.

A good starting set would be:

- Nikkor 2.8/35
- Nikkor 2.0/50
- Nikkor 3.5/135

That won't set you back too much and you will get good results.

If you like to continue, just try those Nikkors that have been mentioned here in the fav lists. Wink


PostPosted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 6:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Nikon mount lenses work so well on my EOS DSLR that nowadays when I'm looking at mf lenses, I automatically have a preference for the Nikon mount. I'm sure PK and Oly mount (Leica and C/Y too?) also work as well, but since I also own an old Nikon F2, it's kind of a no-brainer for me.


PostPosted: Wed Nov 25, 2009 9:09 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
It's funny that you can mount Nikon on a Canon with an adapter, but I haven't heard of an adapter which could mount Canon lenses on a Nikon..


PostPosted: Wed Nov 25, 2009 6:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
It's all to do with the registration of the lens. Personally I do not buy Canon lenses (even though I own a Canon 40D) out of disgust for that company's lack of support for its customers (two mount changes and no compatibility = you have to buy all new lenses and what you have is worthless).


patrickh


PostPosted: Wed Nov 25, 2009 6:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
patrickh wrote:
It's all to do with the registration of the lens. Personally I do not buy Canon lenses (even though I own a Canon 40D) out of disgust for that company's lack of support for its customers (two mount changes and no compatibility = you have to buy all new lenses and what you have is worthless).


Actually there has been only one mount change since Canon started building SLRs. The old "R" mount lenses will fit on FL and FD Canons, but with no metering capabilities. Most FD Canons can use FL lenses too. There is not difference between the FL and FD mounts -- just the meter couplings.

So in this respect, Canon is no different from Minolta (now Sony). I was about to include Pentax's switch from M42 to K, but then I remembered that M42 lenses can be used on K-mount cameras with adapters and retain infinity focus.

I'm a Canon user from way back -- well back to the early 1980s at least. I too got pissed off when Canon switched mounts, and since I was faced with having to buy new gear if I wanted AF, I switched systems to Nikon because they had maintained backward compatibility. However, shortly after that, I bought an EOS with lens for the wife, and slowly began adding lenses to that system. And more recently began buying FD gear again, mostly just because I missed my old F-1.

So now I own gear for three different systems, and its all good. I can use my Nikkors with both my EOS and my Canon FD cameras with adapters, and I can use my FD lenses on my EOS with an adapter, although it uses an optical element which affects performance. But I bought this adapter mostly to evaluate FD lenses for sharpness with my EOS DSLR and I'm satisfied with its performance for that purpose.

FD and FL lenses are not now and never have been "worthless." Micro 4/3 users are enjoying them enough. And if you still shoot film, as I do, their performance is just as good as it has ever been -- which is quite high in my experience.

Finally, in retrospect, I consider Canon's move to the EOS mount to have been a stroke of brilliance. It was at the time, and remains, the most advanced small format mount in existence, imo. Its all-electronic coupling provides for seamless future advancements, and its larger mount diameter provided the glass makers with a better platform for which they could design their optics -- I'm thinking specifically of the reduced optical vignetting that occurs when using very long telephoto lenses. I'm sure Canon was not thinking about all the other brands of lenses that could be made to fit their EOS cameras when they designed the mount + registration distance. Perhaps it was just a coincidence, but a happy one, to my way of thinking.


PostPosted: Wed Nov 25, 2009 10:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Michael

I understand that afficionados like what they like and appreciate it. Canon makes very fine lenses, some of the best available. But compare an AIS Nikon lens value with a comparable FD lens and you will see what I was calling "worthless" for effect. In fact those FD lenses have lost approximately 90% of their original cost. It's a shame because some of them were in fact very good. Canon I am sure made the change for the best of profit motives. Very Happy Very Happy


patrickh


PostPosted: Thu Nov 26, 2009 12:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
It wasn't entirely profit motive that led to the EOS mount. I was an avid FD user back when the transition to AF began. Minolta users kicked up a big fuss over their lens mount change, and shortly after the introduction of the Maxxum 7000, no doubt sensitive to this issue, Canon released their answer to AF: the T80, plus a couple lenses. Recall that turkey? It still used the FD mount but was a dismal failure. Plus, Minolta had locked up the mechanical AF coupling with patents at that time, thus had literally no competition for a few years. So Canon played it smart and got out a new piece of paper.

Yeah, I suppose you can call it profit motive. Canon saw that the future was AF and wanted to continue selling cameras, so they had to do something to remain competitive. And the EOS mount was the result.

I've gotten over my grudge. As an owner of both Canon FD and Nikon F systems, I often wish I could find Nikkors for the same deals as FD lenses. But the really primo FD lenses have retained much of their value -- close to, if not on par with, the Nikkors, despite their lack of forward compatibility.


PostPosted: Thu Nov 26, 2009 9:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I once saw somewhere in the net, someone was using Nikon tele lens on Minolta shooting birds and so forth. The photos shown was quite sharp. Anyone here have any experience with this? As far as I know there is a glass adapter for Nikon to Minolta A mount but with a glass adapter, the quality would be compromised.


PostPosted: Thu Nov 26, 2009 4:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
my_photography wrote:
I once saw somewhere in the net, someone was using Nikon tele lens on Minolta shooting birds and so forth. The photos shown was quite sharp. Anyone here have any experience with this? As far as I know there is a glass adapter for Nikon to Minolta A mount but with a glass adapter, the quality would be compromised.


Nikon glass on a Minolta AF body should be possible without glass, since Minolta AF reg distance is same as Canon EOS. However, it will require to mod the mount.
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