Lens Adaptations... Show & Tell....

I enjoy adapting non-Canon EF lenses to use on my EOS camera bodies. I get good and enjoyable results. Some lens combinations can be prety unique. I am starting this thread so we can show off and discuss these adaptations. And possibly encourrage others to expirement.

Recomended posting:

- Discription of your adaptation, your sucesses, any comments...

- Picture of lens on your EOS body

- Picture taken with the adapted lens

Or just say Hi, and what your working on/ with...

I will start us off with my own....

Nikon 'F' to EOS adapter ring from DVDtechnic of Ukraine. $45 but took a good 4 months to get it by mail. I am very happy with this adapter and have no problems adapting all my nikon lenses with it. I shoot on AV mode and get proper metering.

The picture is of the Nikkor 105mm 2.5 lens (AKA: the lens from outterspace!) and a photo taken with it recently...

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Hi
What about the old FD lens with adaptor with a glass element in it, the glass element has reduced the image quality abit and made the image a bit soft . Below is a picture of my cat taken with FD 135 f2.8 with FD 2 EOS adaptor in full manual mode
Note that the adaptor itself act as a teleconverter about 1.2X to 1.4X so I lose about 1 or more stop.

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I can't take a shot of the lens on camera as I only have one body, but here's a shot of my urban sniper, the Carl Zeiss Jennar Sonnar DDR 135 3.5, and a couple of shots taken with it recently are here:

https://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthre​ad.php?t=115374

It uses a M42/EOS adapter which can be had for around £15. Some of the old MF lenses can really offer great quality at silly prices. But you need to adopt a 'film approach' rather than the point and shoot machine gun style. I prefer to take time to compose and wait for the moment, so no big deal to me. It can also be hard to get focus right in the small viewfinder of the 350D and a tiny tad of MF one way or another can make the difference between a keeper and a mildly OOF shot.

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I havn't modified any non-canon lenses, but I have modified a canon 35-80 to function as a macro lens

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lol! I 'modified' a 50/1.8 to function as a loupe once, by dropping it

Definitely the best thing that ever happened to the 35-80! LOL

If i get time later i'll post some of my pics from adapted lenses

Ok here are some demo pics .I can't show the lens on the cam for most of these but may try to get such pics later

The first is from a konica AR 80-200/3.5 lens. This one couldn't be adapted in any normal sense-it had to be permanantly modified by removing some length from the chassis then an EOS mount was fixed to it.The note with it says f4 and i'm guessing the focal length was 200mm

The second shot is from a fairly typical old tamron prime lens,in this case a 300/5.6.Taken at f8

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The next two are:

The daytime fullmoon shot is a 100% pixels crop taken with a sigma 500/7.2 Apo lens. This one was an olympus mount lens. I could have bought an adapter but i decided to permanantly modify it to EOS

The heavily vignetted pic is an EFs18-55 kit lens used on a full frame film camera.
The lens had the back chopped off so it would fit ,plus mirror lockup was used so the rear lens element wouldn't get hit by the mirror.
Obviously one of those 'just for the sake of it' pics

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Yes this one is a rather lame image -i'm just posting this as an example of the boke this lens gives.I think i have a much nicer one somewhere i'll try to find.
It's a Pentax SMC-m 50/1.4 Kmount lens and it hasn't been modified to fit the camera. I made up a special adapter
(See this thread for more info,a member of this forum called Buze has made a one off adapter called a 'Kdapter' .He discovered that EF's mount bodies can use an adapter for using Kmount lenses.Normal EOS bodies definitely can't .
https://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthre​ad.php?t=97264)

The second shot is with a canon FD 85/1.8 lens. This one had an EOS mount temporarily grafted on in place of the FD back end. Taken at about 1/40th, f2, ISO800

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Ok last ones for now.

These are both from a cheapo 400mm f6.3 preset lens at about f8 i think.
Note that the moon shot has had ZERO sharpening applied!
These kinds of lenses are outstanding value for money (WAY better image quality than the cheap mirror lenses) .These days you can only buy the 500/f8 models- they sell for about us$110 on ebay

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Another one from the macro converted 35-80
The second pic shows the size of subject involved

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That flower shot sure is nice.
I allways seem to struggle with macro for various reasons. Here is a test of an early EF35-70 lens that's had the same 'beheaded' treatment

http://www.photo.net …?photo_id=36148​24&size=lg

My Emergency Macro lens

My macro lens had to go in for repair last summer right in the middle of the bug season, so as a confirmed macroholic I had to do something.
Using bits and pieces I already had, I made up an emergency macro lens from bits from my old pentax SLR (a 50mm F1.7SMC-M lens and a set of extension tubes I had never used) plus a EOS T mount I had bought to use my old mirror lens (until I found the lens was not worth using).
I knocked out the tMount from the adapter (after sawing it) and then superglued the tmount to the smallest Pentax fit extension ring. Loading up all the extension rings gave me a completely manual lens shooting at 1.5:1, but I was amazed at the optical quality of the lens.
Interestingly the shots definately had higher resolution than I was getting from my 105mmEX macro lens, it then dawned on me that I was shooting at 1.5:1 instead of 1:1, so rushed out to get some extension rings for the EOS to use on my macro lens and haven't looked back since

BTW would think if there are enough replies on this thread, it may be worth making it a sticky or something.

Brian V.

Lens plus cutout Tmount