On Jan 15, 2009, at 12:15 PM, Adam Maas wrote:
I suspect some enterprising fellow could come up with EF, N, SA and
possibly Nikon E-type adaptors with full iris control by building an
exlectronic adaptor. Sort of a cross between conurus's Contax N to EOS
conversion and the 4/3rds->m43 adaptor Panasonic already sells. m43
does use servo controlled focus and aperture so there's obviously a
source of power.
It's probably more trouble than it's worth, especially since a G1 with
say an 85L on the front would handle pretty badly.
I'd say it's mostly a waste too. There are plenty of excellent lenses
which can be used with simple mount adapters around, no need to spend
a bunch of time and money adapting fancy dancy electronic lenses from
other mounts for no reason. For that matter, the Olympus
50-200/2.8-3.5 and 150/2, for instance, give way more facility and
work brilliantly (manual focus only) ... and are better than *most* of
the vintage glass anyway.
Oh, I picked up a red G1 myself. Liking it so far, but still figuring
out my workflow. Bridge CS3 seems to be allergic to the DNG's right
now.
Never upgraded to CS3 so I can't help there, but DNGs with DNG
Converter v5.2 should be useable.
Lightroom 2.2 does brilliantly with the .RW2 files directly, as does
Camera Raw v5.2 (in Photoshop CS4 or latest versions of PSE).
Godfrey
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