canon 5D lense hax

OK so if you get an adapter you can use the nikkon lenses on the 5d mark2.

Today I did something to my canon rebel, I put a small peice of duct tape on the electrical contacts on the lense, now it cant communicate with my camera.

It works, but it reads fstop of 00 iso of 400, autofocus doesn't work. (all manual). its all set on the settings it was on before the electrical jam. There is no reason why this wouldn't work on the 5d either.

Does anyone have any ideas on making something "permanent" in such a way that it would be easy to remove and replace without removing the lense?///

If you made yourself a canon mount to canon mount adapter, then had a little switch that would connect the pins together, or turn them off.

Thats true but that might add distance that might mess up the optics. Although it works with the Nikkon adapter, hmm. I guess only one of the electrical points powers the lense. If I opened up a section of a lense I could add a switch connecting to the red wire (+)

There are very thin EOS -> M42 and M42 -> EOS adapters that will cancel out the entire communication between lense and camera. However, I don't really see the point of that. You just get stuck on aperture wide open, and that's not always what you need.

As for focus, all better lenses have a manual focus mode where the camera has nothing to say about focusing - that's not a problem.

I'm currently thinking about getting a couple of FD lenses for my old 5D. Those could be used at any f-stop without "jumping" for the setting for each exposure - which is a real drag with photo based time lapse clips (flicker).

The one thing that would really be needed, both for 35mm adapter as well as for the 5DII is a way to reliably control the aperture to ANY setting you want. No idea how that could be done though.

hmmm the old 35mm film cameras have manual aperture controls, (I think) Ive got some really old ones. One of them made by "signor" I don't even see that brand on google...its old but it is in really good condition. I wonder If I could get an adaptor for that kind of lense.

EDIT: duh I just realized the M42 lens is for 35mm, I might get that, but the coating might be bad for a dslr

I was at my local Penn camera and mentioned It would be great to hold a 5D in my hand. He said you are in luck. We had one that was ordered months ago and it just came in. The guy who ordered it got deployed to Irac and said to sell it.

Long story short I walked out with the camera body and what they call the plastic wonder (50mm 1.8). I want to do some research into my first Canon Zoom lens.

Would be cool if I could use some my Nikon lenses. I have 8. I am going to give my wife the pick of my D80 or D300 and a couple lense then the others will be sold as well as an F2 with 2 Lenses.

You got a Mark II Michael? That is amazing!!!! I was looking at getting one, but I just got a fx1000. Maybe next year :-(...whatever the next batch of cams coming out is will be better with more control I imagine. Hopefully Canon listens to all the requests ...

Well my thing will be to build up my lenes. Bodies come and go but the real money is in the glass. I was kind of fed up with Nikon for various reasons but my wife is a Nikon dihard.

Some initial observations. (Keep in mind I have a cheap $99 lens) The lens makes lots of noise when you manualy focus. I know that the nicer lens dont do this. The good news is my rode shotgun mik firs the shoe perfectly and plus into the mic jack.

The camera does have some light gathering properties but under hither ISO's it does exibit more noise than my D300. The good news is that when shooting video it must combine pixels so therfor has more light gathering power. Even at ISO 4000+ I did not get any grain or very little when doing movies. Focus is a bear as you have two choises. Hit AF button and the camera closes the shutter and focases through the mirror (Normal way) OR the live view. In live view mode it is much slower bit it works. For shooting stock this is not a big issue as I have the focus and other controls in manual most of the time. I set up the shot then shoot.

The next big hurdle is my work flow. The mov files created are compatible with all my NLE including CS3 Extended. The problem I am having is that When I use my Photoshop Elements Organizer It for some reason creates two files of everything. I am sure I will work it out.

The cheapy lens I got was is a 50mm 1.8 and has a good DOF for its cost. Its also plastic so adds very little to the wieght of the camera.

OK I am rambling. I havent been to bed in 36 hours so I cant think strait. I havent even read the manual yet.

I was going to buy the 5d today, but they are out of stock ARG! They will get more in a few days.

I managed to take an old japanese 35mm lens and loosely attach it to another eos camera. Its loose so it doesn't focus right, but I have manual control of everything (including apeture). So I got a m42 adapter today on ebay. The adapter will make the lense steady (as opposed to me just holding it)

Here are some test pics:
http://i42.tinypic.com/xcj98i.jpg (lol that lamp is actaully my ghetto "crane")
http://i44.tinypic.com/6xsplc.jpg (out of focus a little, but close)
http://i40.tinypic.com/256tzjm.jpg
http://i39.tinypic.com/orl57b.jpg (the lense is tilted)


The lens is made of heavy metal, its small, and made for 35mm cameras.

by the way, just in case you dont know - cinema5d.com & dvinfo.net both have great forums with info for 5d mk ii users. heaps of lens hacks and techniques to get apperture control on those sites.