Leica glass on a Canon 5D

[meven]

OK, time to get back to how the thread got started (5D + Leica glass)







All w/Canon 5D + 50mm f/2 Summicron-R (3-cam)

Love those two too, like fdigital said, very slide like! I have been thinking of going 5D with R glass for a long time, I should take the plunge...

 

[nksyoon]

Can someone post a pic of a 5d with leica lenses or maybe a d700/d3 with old nikkors?

5D with Summilux 50

 

[boy_lah]

re photo - thanks everyone.

Back to 5D + leica lens. How does one meter? I read somewhere you have to meter fully open, the stop down to desired aperture and adjust shutter accordingly?

And trying my nikon lens on my 5d was tricky because of the focusing screen. I know you can buy canon/third party replacement screens, but are they any good/workable?

 

[LeicaM3]

Nice! - got any shots with that 105 wide open?

D700 + 105/2.5 AI @2.5 - indoor - low light

 

[gavinlg]

re photo - thanks everyone.

Back to 5D + leica lens. How does one meter? I read somewhere you have to meter fully open, the stop down to desired aperture and adjust shutter accordingly?

And trying my nikon lens on my 5d was tricky because of the focusing screen. I know you can buy canon/third party replacement screens, but are they any good/workable?

You use aperture priority generally. You can treat it as a normal lens as far as metering goes as the camera measures the amount of light that comes in through the lens and automatically adjusts the shutter speed.
What you read was probably that you have to focus with the lens wide open and then stop it down to where you want it after focussing to take the picture. This is because the viewfinder will get darker as the lens is stopped down and it can get harder to focus as you get the aperture smaller. It doesn't really make that much difference up to about f4-f5.6.

re: Focus screens, I'd be tempted to buy a split prism screen from haoda or Katz if I was going to use mainly manual focus lenses.
Otherwise you can get the canon EES which makes the focus pop a bit more in the viewfinder.

 

[ishpop]

Cool thread guys~

I plan to eventually get a 5d as it seems to be the most capable (based on my propensity to spend hours looking at photos on flickr) of producing "film" like images of all the digital cameras I've seen.

I have been using a range of lenses on my Olympus E1 over the years, and I know this is OT, but I have seen some really cool results using a cheap Nikon 50mm F1.4 AIS and a Zeiss Distagon:

Nikkor:

Distagon: