EOS 5D Mark 2 hacked to Leica M mount

Regarding this being 'pointless'. It is as pointless as anything anyone on this forum does, to wit, pointless to almost the entire human race.
 
My first reaction was that this person has a lot more money than sense. However, I tend to agree - innovation sees more failures than successes. Sometimes seemingly fruitless endeavors must still be explored. So more power to him.
 
Hacking a 5DII body to take M-mount lenses seems to be an incredibly inefficient work-around. Like others have said, you can easily use Leica R or Canon L lenses.

I suppose there's more to life than efficiency though.
 
Sometimes people just do things for the hell of it or for fun... not because it is the best solution to a problem.
 
An American ideal!

An American ideal!

I really love the "can do" spirit people have in using things in new ways. I remember Kennedy's moon speech and "why we choose to go to the moon". I love thinking outside of the box and personal initiative instead of releying on the powers that be.

Immagine a world where photographers actually designed the cameras and what they would look like!

More power to people willing to take a risk and experiment! Just remember how Steve Jobs and Apple started!!!!
 
If only I could see the point of doing this...???? Taking lenses that can be used far more conveniently on an M9 and going to great trouble to mount them on a camera that has less (albeit only slightly less) image quality and in this configuration abysmal ergonomics.:confused::confused:
 
I don't understand the hate here. I mean sure the thing might be pointless clumsy etc, but he did it. Which to some people is a lot of fun. Some people could argue hiking is pointless, but we do it for fun. it's not nec the fastest way to get to where you're going but it's fun.
 
Why do it? Easy, video and shallow (or more radically adjustable) DOF. They make TV programmes with the 5DMkII such is the quality. All you then need are lenses that are in themsleves high quality, and quiet when focusing them.

But if its just to use for still images I can't see the point.

Steve
 
if nothing else, it's a testament to the quality of leica glass. a person willing to hack a camera that extensively to use it most likely as a movie camera with leica glass is ok in my book. you think this is a crazy waste? then you don't know much about hacking... there is someone right now somewhere in the world about to take a plasma cutter to something that is worth 100x the price of a 5D, trust me.
 
250swb said:
Why do it? Easy, video and shallow (or more radically adjustable) DOF. They make TV programmes with the 5DMkII such is the quality. All you then need are lenses that are in themsleves high quality, and quiet when focusing them.

But if its just to use for still images I can't see the point.

Steve
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And for video there are the R lenses, quite a few of which are identical to the M lenses.....
 
Hey. Guys. Make a little room for whimsy. Aren't you glad you can now say, "I once saw this nutso-hack of a $5,000 camera to take lenses designed for a totally different system?" Who cares what the guy's motives were. No one got hurt and the photography world is an incrementally more interesting place because of his efforts.
 
250swb said:
Why do it? Easy, video and shallow (or more radically adjustable) DOF. They make TV programmes with the 5DMkII such is the quality. All you then need are lenses that are in themsleves high quality, and quiet when focusing them.

But if its just to use for still images I can't see the point.

Steve
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I don't quite see the point for video either to be honest. There are plenty of fast, shallow DoF lenses around for video work. High resolution lenses are not that crucial for video either as, at the slow speeds usually used for motion capture, any resolution advantage Leica lenses might have is negated by the motion blur. Also, the small size of M lenses might make it more difficult to mount a follow focus rig and the short focusing throw of rangefinder lenses aren't helping either.

All in all it just seems like a pretty useless idea. I've seen PL-mount conversions for the 5DII which I think make much more sense for video work.

mto'brien said:
if nothing else, it's a testament to the quality of leica glass.
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Not really. It says something about the person doing it but very little about the actual lenses. If I decided to use a Leica lens as a door stop that wouldn't be a testament to the door-stop-quality of Leica lenses :)
 
Jamie123 said:
I don't quite see the point for video either to be honest. There are plenty of fast, shallow DoF lenses around for video work. High resolution lenses are not that crucial for video either as, at the slow speeds usually used for motion capture, any resolution advantage Leica lenses might have is negated by the motion blur. Also, the small size of M lenses might make it more difficult to mount a follow focus rig and the short focusing throw of rangefinder lenses aren't helping either.

All in all it just seems like a pretty useless idea. I've seen PL-mount conversions for the 5DII which I think make much more sense for video work.



Not really. It says something about the person doing it but very little about the actual lenses. If I decided to use a Leica lens as a door stop that wouldn't be a testament to the door-stop-quality of Leica lenses :)
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As far as I know a Noctilux is only available in M mount, so an R mount adapter, or any other of the many available adapters isn't really what this guy was after. To think that the hacker didn't consider that, doesn't give him enough credit.

Perhaps I should have said: testament to the character of leica glass, especially wide open. And frankly, I don't really understand your door stop analogy in context here, i thought we were talking about using lenses as lenses, and why this guy would want to do what he did, but a good fallacy here and there can be funny, too. :)
 
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