Peter Fairweather wrote: > Mark > > The answer to your question is the lenses. > > In a moment of madness I looked at some of the C****n lens reviews to > see what was to be gained if anything by switching to the full frame > 5D. The favourite wide lens was the sigma 12-24, which I have in a > Pentax mount. I didn't fancy paying £1000 for a 16-35 Canon zoom with > worse barrel distortion than the Sigma. Their 14mm was twice the price > of the Pentax and not that well thought of. The 20mm prime was > indifferent although at least not astronomically expensive. the 24 1.4 > was excellent but only when stopped down and cost another £1000. The > 24 2.8 was OK at best and so on > > Makes the advantage of a full frame sensor disappear at the wide end. > I even thought of taking a hacksaw to the Pentax mounts and converting > them to Canon. > > Has anyone ever tried that? ;> ;> > > Peter >
It's called Cotty-izing a lens, as Cotty has done exactly that to an A 15 and A* 85 for use on his 1DmII. Easier to do now that Cameraquest is selling a K-EF adaptor (You'll still need to trim the stop-down lever off to clear the mirror on a FF or 1.3x crop body, but the lever clears the mirror on EF-S bodies). Plenty of people do this to get better Zeiss, Olympus, Nikon or Leica wides onto the nice canon FF bodies. I personally have the Leica and M42 adaptors and intend on getting a Nikon adaptor as well (I have a Canon film body and may get a 5D if I ever get the cash, I've got an extensve Nikon MF collection that I'd like to use on FF) -Adam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
