i need your help ! Does anyone know if i can use M lenses to Cannon 5D Mark ii mount?

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Hi everyone ,

i have a couple of M mount lenses .

does anyone know if i can use them on a cannon 5D Mark II

i only use manual focus and most of the times an external lightmeter , so i do not care if most of the function on the cannon won't work ( auto-focus and whatever else )

just curious if i can use M mount lenses on the cannon.

i can't find any adapters on ebay.

if you know anyway this can be done please advice .

Thanks
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Flange to film distance is all wrong. You'd have to mount the lens inside the camera body and that would interfere with the camera's mirror. I have heard that one of the reasons for Leica's great wide angles was the placement of the lens's rear element close to the film plane. For wide-angle lenses, SLR manufacturers had to resort to a retrofocus design to accommodate the flange-to-film-plane distance for SLRs. You can use Leica R (as well as Nikon, Pentax screw-mount and other) lenses on Canon digi-bodies with an appropriate adapter, but not M-mount lenses.
 
Nikon's dSLRs WILL take older, MF focus lenses and meter (at least the traditional average meter) with them. That's why I went for Nikon instead of Canon when I shopped for film SLRs.
 
panos said:
Hi everyone ,

i have a couple of M mount lenses .

does anyone know if i can use them on a cannon 5D Mark II

i only use manual focus and most of the times an external lightmeter , so i do not care if most of the function on the cannon won't work ( auto-focus and whatever else )

just curious if i can use M mount lenses on the cannon.

i can't find any adapters on ebay.

if you know anyway this can be done please advice .

Thanks
p:cool:
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Why don't you use R lenses then - they are dirt-cheap now and prices probably will explode in the near future.
 
Nikons won't take M lenses. All SLR systems have much longer lens flange to film/sensor plane distances because of the need to accommodate the reflex mirror. You can use M lenses with an adapter, but only as macro lenses.

The lens flange to film plane distance is actually shorter on Canon EOS systems than on Nikon, which is why Nikon lenses can be mounted on Canon bodies with a mechanical adapter. Contax and Leica R lenses can also be mounted on Canon, in fact the Contax 21mm and Summilux-R 50mm are both very popular (well, compared to the production runs for those lenses) among Canon shooters.

That said, you still have to deal with annoyances like stop-down metering, and a fully compatible system like the new Zeiss ZE mount lenses are much more practical.
 
SolaresLarrave said:
Nikon's dSLRs WILL take older, MF focus lenses and meter (at least the traditional average meter) with them. That's why I went for Nikon instead of Canon when I shopped for film SLRs.
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Actually Canon's cheapest DSLRs have stopped-down metering with F, K, M42, and OM mount lenses, to name a few. Nikon's cheaper ones don't even meter with AI lenses at all.
 
breathstealer said:
Actually Canon's cheapest DSLRs have stopped-down metering with F, K, M42, and OM mount lenses, to name a few. Nikon's cheaper ones don't even meter with AI lenses at all.
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I didn't know about the Canon's possibilities.

At least, with the cheap Nikon dSLRs you still can mount the lens! :)
 
If I remember correctly, Stehpen Gandy was having such an adapter built to his specs for limited functions such as macro. I believe it was a copy of a rare and expensize adapter that already had been built. Someone correct me if I am wrong.
 
It could be done. You would have to forget about the mirror and looking through the viewfinder. :p Ohj focusing would have to be estimated by the scale on the lens and also would need an adopter to fit the Eos mount.
 
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