EOS 5D Mark 2 hacked to Leica M mount

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I came across this on Leica Users Forum. It seems someone hacked an EOS 5D Mark 2 to take Leica M lenses.

You have to give whoever did this credit. hell, they have more creativity than the usual bunch of camera makers. Maybe this is a trend where people recycle cameras and make what they really want instead of waiting for years (life is too short) for camera makers to come up with what they really want.

I would love to try this hacked Canon with a Noctilux!!!!

I would love to see photos taken with this thing!!!
 

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What the...

Okay this seems absolutely pointless. There's no mirror, so the viewfinder isn't going to show anything. How can you shoot with a noctilux without some kind of usable rangefinder or reflex viewfinder? It's basically a digital MD-1 that uses batteries and is like five times the size.

I mean, they might as well have done it with a 5D mark i, it would have saved them a grand. Instead, they took a camera I could have used (!) and turned it into a brick!


Edit: okayyy so you could use the LCD screen. I forgot about that. They could've used a Sony NEX and stuck with the crop factor and saved a ton of $$ though. Doesn't Live View have a huge delay with DSLR's though? It does with my D300.
 
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Macro?

Look at the front end and the recessed lens mount!!!!!!

This thing can focus to "INFINITY AND BEYOND"!!!!!!
 
Not for Wide angle lenses

Not for Wide angle lenses

I would use it for 35mm and 50mm. I would imagine that would be fine!!!

Hell, I suspect the Nokton 35 f1.2 would be great!!!!!!!!
 
Very interesting, though for the eos system you've got these native lenses:

14mm f2.8L
24mm f1.4L
35mm f1.4L
50mm f1.2L
85mm f1.2L

And they're all really good. Some are equal and possibly even better than the equivalent leicas... So I have to wonder why? Admittedly it got my attention though!
 
two things..

1) DSLR + Leica == Leica R-lenses
2) Full Frame + Leica M-lenses == Leica M9

This excercise is mildly interesting as technical experiment, but other than that it's just utterly useless and technically inferior to the real alternatives mentioned above.

//Juha

Ps. for solutio 1) use the Leitax adapters.. several choices for digital body then
 
Freedom of thought

Freedom of thought

I think it is fantastic with these people who can see beyond, what we others can´t. They seem to think that nothing is impossible. What would the world be without these innovators. That EOS camera might put the M9 back to stonetime.
 
awaw said:
I think it is fantastic with these people who can see beyond, what we others can´t. They seem to think that nothing is impossible. What would the world be without these innovators. That EOS camera might put the M9 back to stonetime.
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I don't consider someone who cuts off the front of a camera an "innovator," it seems more like "well I can't afford an M9 so I'll just hack away at this $2000 camera until it fits my other lenses." I would consider someone who designs a camera to fill such a niche an innovator (for example, this new fuji X100 if it lives up to the hype). I can see beyond...the BS 🙄 what can they do with those amazing leica m lenses that they REALLY couldn't do with their lowly EOS L lenses? It's a fantastic project for sure, but it's not like their photographs are tremendously improving because they rubbed down the front of a camera.
 
keytarjunkie said:
I don't consider someone who cuts off the front of a camera an "innovator," it seems more like "well I can't afford an M9 so I'll just hack away at this $2000 camera until it fits my other lenses." I would consider someone who designs a camera to fill such a niche an innovator (for example, this new fuji X100 if it lives up to the hype). I can see beyond...the BS 🙄 what can they do with those amazing leica m lenses that they REALLY couldn't do with their lowly EOS L lenses? It's a fantastic project for sure, but it's not like their photographs are tremendously improving because they rubbed down the front of a camera.
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He's shooting a Noctilux and has two 5D II. I wouldn't be so quick to assume that he can't afford an M9. A 21 'lux is pictured too, my guess is that this guy isn't short on money.
 
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