Canon-to-Nikon??

DanielB

so i'm talkng to my local Camera Guru at the local Camera shop. And he mentions something about how nikon lenses are soo much better than canons. . So i tell him its too bad there isn't a way to put them on a canon. He tells me there is. but he had to run. so i was wondering if there is such a thing as a Nikon-to-Canon Mount lense adapter. or any brand of Cameras really.

just curious


-daniel-

Harryb

DanielB wrote:

so i'm talkng to my local Camera Guru at the local Camera shop. And he mentions something about how nikon lenses are soo much better than canons. . So i tell him its too bad there isn't a way to put them on a canon. He tells me there is. but he had to run. so i was wondering if there is such a thing as a Nikon-to-Canon Mount lense adapter. or any brand of Cameras really.

just curious


-daniel-

Daniel,

I am the biggest Nikon fan going but the difference beween the lenses ain't that much that you would want to be fooling around with an adaptor. In some ranges Nikon is better and in otehr ranges Canon is better. If you go to another camera store their guru might tell you the Canon lenses are superior.

One thing both brands have in common is that their better glass costs more than we want to pay.

Andy

DanielB wrote:

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-daniel-

Yes, there is.

pathfinder

There are adapters for other brands to EOS mounts BUT the lenses do not auto-focus, nor do they stop down automatically when the shutter is depressed. They become what used to be called pre-set. You have to manually close down the iris before depressing the shutter and the reopen it agin. And no electronic date will be sent to the camera body.

That is why the camera sales person had to go. Yes, sometimes there are adapters, but unless you have a VERY SPECIFIC NEED, and know exactly what you are geting into, you do not want to go there. Andy knows this and understands this, but di dnot mention it in his post above. I am sure he agrees that you cannot just drop a Nikon lens on an EOS body via an adapter and have the same user friendly experience of a Canon EOS lens on an EOS body OR vice versa.

Pick a system of lenses - Canon, Nikon, Minolta maybe, Olympus maybe - and stick with that. Then you can chose an appropriate camera body. But make your choice based on lenses.

One old generality was that Nikon makes better wide angle lenses, and Canon makes better telephotos. But I am sure that Harry will take excepetion to this idea and for very good reasons. It is no longer true

Like Harry said, really good glass is not cheap. The only consolation is that cheap glass never gets sharper with age. And good glass lasts almost forever :

DanielB

pathfinder wrote:

you cannot just drop a Nikon lens on an EOS body via an adapter and have the same user friendly experience of a Canon EOS lens on an EOS body OR vice versa.

i know. trust me. i'm sure it costs much $$ which i don't have. and i wouldn't even be hassling in it. I was just curious to see if there was such a thing. and like you said. unless your need is Desperate. Then you wouldn't have any use for it. like i said... i was merely wondering.

-daniel-

Osprey Whisperer

It's a known fact that Canon white "L" glass users attract/pick-up more hot women when out shooting. Honest. Ask Harry, Ben or Jeff when the last time they picked up a hot lady while out shooting with their Nikon gear. Run this bit of info past your camera store guru.

rutt

Bird Man Photographer wrote:

It's a known fact that Canon white "L" glass users attract/pick-up more hot women when out shooting. Honest. Ask Harry, Ben or Jeff when the last time they picked up a hot lady while out shooting with their Nikon gear. Run this bit of info past your camera store guru.

The empirical evidence is overwhelming: if this is what you care about get a Sony F707. Nobody else here seems even to be on the same planet as Yuri in this particular measure.

pathfinder

That's for sure. A beard seems to help him also

Osprey Whisperer

rutt wrote:

The empirical evidence is overwhelming: if this is what you care about get a Sony F707. Nobody else here seems even to be on the same planet as Yuri in this particular measure.

Jane B.

Can be fun way to use lens you already own

pathfinder wrote:

There are adapters for other brands to EOS mounts BUT the lenses do not auto-focus, nor do they stop down automatically when the shutter is depressed. They become what used to be called pre-set. You have to manually close down the iris before depressing the shutter and the reopen it agin. And no electronic date will be sent to the camera body.

That is why the camera sales person had to go. Yes, sometimes there are adapters, but unless you have a VERY SPECIFIC NEED, and know exactly what you are geting into, you do not want to go there. Andy knows this and understands this, but di dnot mention it in his post above. I am sure he agrees that you cannot just drop a Nikon lens on an EOS body via an adapter and have the same user friendly experience of a Canon EOS lens on an EOS body OR vice versa.

Snip

All that pathfinder wrote is accurate; yet I am having fun with an M42 to EOS adapter and some lenses that I had for an earlier film system. The M42 to EOS adapter is not an expensive one (no glass in it) and in my case no additional expense for the lenses.

Jane

Andy

Jane B. wrote:

All that pathfinder wrote is accurate; yet I am having fun with an M42 to EOS adapter and some lenses that I had for an earlier film system. The M42 to EOS adapter is not an expensive one (no glass in it) and in my case no additional expense for the lenses.

Jane

Hiya Janey! So cool to see you again

pathfinder

Jane B. wrote:

pathfinder wrote:

There are adapters for other brands to EOS mounts BUT the lenses do not auto-focus, nor do they stop down automatically when the shutter is depressed. They become what used to be called pre-set. You have to manually close down the iris before depressing the shutter and the reopen it agin. And no electronic date will be sent to the camera body.

That is why the camera sales person had to go. Yes, sometimes there are adapters, but unless you have a VERY SPECIFIC NEED, and know exactly what you are geting into, you do not want to go there. Andy knows this and understands this, but di dnot mention it in his post above. I am sure he agrees that you cannot just drop a Nikon lens on an EOS body via an adapter and have the same user friendly experience of a Canon EOS lens on an EOS body OR vice versa.

Snip

All that pathfinder wrote is accurate; yet I am having fun with an M42 to EOS adapter and some lenses that I had for an earlier film system. The M42 to EOS adapter is not an expensive one (no glass in it) and in my case no additional expense for the lenses.

Jane

Jane, you obviously know what you are doing, and did not expect to use these lenses like a standard EOS lens. That's cool, but it sounded like the original poster was thinking that an adapter would allow a NIKON lens to be used on a Canon body and function normally. They would be disappointed of course. Selling a lovely apple to someone who is expecting an orange is sure to disapoint someone.

I own a Tamron 90mm macro T mount lens that I have thought about buying an EOS adapter for. The T-mount adapter would allow mounting an EOS body to an astro-telescope I believe also.

3rdPlanetPhotography

Don't forget
Last but not Least!!!

Duct Tape!

pathfinder

kc7dji wrote:

Last but not Least!!!

Duct Tape!

Or get one of the plastic lids that mount on the body lens mount and cut out a central opening and mount your non-OEM lens there, May have to make some
adjustments to make sure the lens will focus to infinity and is square etc, but it is inexpensive. This technique actually works fairly well for reversing a 50mm lens to use as a macro - you have to glue an reversing ring into the body cap and then mount the 50mm reversed. Duct tape might help here - I think I would be very reluctant to use duct tape around my cameras and my fine optics. Duct tape is pretty good for blisters though!! :