Canon EOS Lens on Bolex H16 body

[carllooper]

Discovered an adapter ring for using Canon EOS lenses on a Bolex H16 Reflex camera:

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/search?at ... 4289366803

Does anyone have any experience using such an adapter and what the results might be like?

Carl

[Mana]

If thats for EF mount lenses you can not adjust the aperture.

[bolextech]

The trick is to set the lens aperture while it's still on the EOS camera, depress the DOF preview button, remove the lens and install in on the adapter. Tedious but manageable if no aperture changes are necessary during the shot.

Cheers,
Jean-Louis

[carllooper]

If thats for EF mount lenses you can not adjust the aperture.

The trick is to set the lens aperture while it's still on the EOS camera, depress the DOF preview button, remove the lens and install in on the adapter. Tedious but manageable if no aperture changes are necessary during the shot.

Thanks guys. I would have missed that: that the aperture of the EF lens is digitally controlled. Perhaps there is someway of hacking that aperture control: a custom circuit (with knob) that reproduces the signals that the EF camera would otherwise be sending the lens.

cheers
Carl

[Mana]

Why not just use FD mount lenses? Or better yet Nikkors!

[carllooper]

Why not just use FD mount lenses? Or better yet Nikkors!

I was trying to figure out some way of writing, in a humorous way: "because I don't, already, have those lenses" but whichever way I tried to compose that, it sounded like I wasn't being appreciative of the information otherwise in the comment.

I do already have a number of native cine lenses for the H16 which are fine. And a very old cine mount video camera zoom lens.

Will certainly look out for FD mount and Nikkor lenses to add to the collection. It will certainly be less hassle than building a circuit with a knob.

cheers
Carl

[Mana]

Older Non-AI (auto index) Nikkor lenses are plentiful, have great reputations, and be had at ridiculously good prices.