mamiya lens on a red?

[Aaron Champion]

I have a lot of good older mamiya primes that I currently use with my cannon 5D and the footage looks amazing. If I get the Nikon mount for red mx and go from nikon mount to mamiya mount and use the mamiya primes do you think that is going through to many mounts that it will cause image quality loss / need more light, or what would be a general opinion. I feel like with enough light it should be fine but I have no experience on red as of now.

Keep in mind mamiya 645 is a medium format camera, so consider the lens sizes.

 

[rogier jaarsma]

mamiya to canon

mamiya to canon

what sort of adapter do you use for mamiya to canon. I have a bunch of old mamiya lenses also and tried to put them on an ex-3, but the magnification is too big, because of the chip size. But for the canon 5d it should work...?

i think it will also work for the RED...?

Can you tell me which adapter/ brand you use?

thnx

rogier

 

[Aaron Champion]

I just used a bought off ebay cannon to mamiya adapter, its just a ring that connects the two types. And yes it works AWESOME on my cannon 5D. You can watch footage of it in my demo reel on my site.

 

[Shawn Nelson]

Aaron,
Is this the adaptor you used? http://cgi.ebay.com/Mamiya-645-Lens...89547?pt=Lens_Accessories&hash=item20b334198b

The backside of that doesnt look right to go onto my Canon.

Btw, on your site, where can I find just your Mamiya lens footage?

 

[Matt Coats]

Are we talking 645 Mamiya or RZ lenses here?

 

[jake blackstone]

I have a lot of good older mamiya primes that I currently use with my cannon 5D and the footage looks amazing. If I get the Nikon mount for red mx and go from nikon mount to mamiya mount and use the mamiya primes do you think that is going through to many mounts that it will cause image quality loss / need more light, or what would be a general opinion. I feel like with enough light it should be fine but I have no experience on red as of now.

Keep in mind mamiya 645 is a medium format camera, so consider the lens sizes.

We used the lens from my Mamiya 680 and used this custom made adapter It worked great. No seriously, it really did

 

[Jarred Land]

RZ lenses need a bellows adapter... the 645 lenses can use a simple mechanical adapter to goto the nikon mount like this http://www.amazon.com/Fotodiox-Adapter-Mamiya-Nikon-Camera/dp/B002JXTQRO

The results i have seen from medium format lenses on a RED have been great as you are using only the middle of the lens which is usually the sharpest.

 

[Jeff Kilgroe]

Hey Jarred, it's been said there will be a Mamiya mount for the upcoming EPIC-645 (or whatever it ends up being called). If so, would that mount have a drive motor to control AF on the 645 lenses? Just curious...