It may be posible to addapt some old 35mm fix focal length motion pictures lenses to the istD. They would be fairly cheap (most of them, used), but I think it would take at least as much machining as on Cottys Pentax to EOS mod.
BTW, many of those old motion picture lenses do cover double frame (135) quite well, but those particular lenses still tend to be quite expensive.
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Hi Shel, A 35mm movie camera lens has the widest coverage of those you mentioned, but it still doesn't have a big enough image circle for an APS sized sensor. Unless the lens was designed to cover more than the 35mm movie frame, you would have vignetting in the corners. Paul
I was watching the PBS show "Frontline" a couple of nights back, and during the intro a video collage is played, in which a 9.8mm f/1.2 lens is shown. Clearly it's a lens for a video camera or 16mm camera, or some such. That got me thinking about the possibility of adapting such a focal length to a DSLR that uses the small sensors. First question, of course, is how does the size of the istD sensor compare to the frame of a video, 16mm, or 35mm movie camera . I think a 35mm movie frame is about 1/2 the size of a 35mm still camera frame. Anyway, what might the possibility be of adapting such a lens to a digi SLR? Any thoughts on that? Looking at the Sony digicam, it's 7.5mm or so at the wide end ... shouldn't some of these movie camera lenses work pretty well for digi slr use? Cotty?
Shel
