I think the 15mm was a K not A, one of the few things I find forgivable
as it would be much easier to restore full K functionality someday...
Adam Maas wrote:
> 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
>
>
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