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How many opt to go Nikon mount manual vs Canon EF

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I was curious how many are going with Nikon mount lenses + adapters vs native Canon EF mount lenses (so you can manually adjust aperture) on lenses like Zeiss, Sigma series which would come in all mount flavors. Or do you usually not find a need to adjust aperture on the fly at all?
 
Nikon mount lenses for me. I like to control aperture manually and know that I can adapt to any cam body for stills. Sucks that the Sigma Art series uses the Nikon G mount without the aperture ring and scale built onto the lens. Frustrating but I deal with it.
 
I use CANON mount...Contax w/ Leitax adapters. I Letaix all the manual/vintage glass we use...whether its Contax, Nikon, FD, M42, etc
 
Nikon with the Optitek Prolock mount so I can control the aperture on lenses without an iris ring.
 
If you want to have a system that an AC can focus use manual lenses with hard end stops. Then you can add a digital remote focus and your AC can focus.
I use Nikon AIs lenses with lens gear rings by jbkcinequipt.com and a Optitek mount. Leica-R, Canon FD, Contax,... would also work.
New Servo controlled lenses from Nikon and Canon would not.
 
Thanks everyone for chiming in. Been thinking of when I buy the Sigma 18-35 to go for the nikon version and use an adapter for Canon mount. However I have always had issues with some adapters with some play in the connection between the mount and adapter.
 
When one of my clients bought a Canon DSLR, I picked up a Novoflex adapter so we could use my Nikkor lenses. The adapter seemed to work well. But, it didn't get used much because we gave up on the DSLR pretty quickly.
 
Nikon

full set of old primes, geared.

With the red nikon mount because I love the locking mechanism. Also works with my 2.8 zoom set, 17-35, 28-70, 80-200

modded my 9 leica R's to nikon to use with this mount as well. Lots to choose from!
 
Posilock Nikon mount for Epic/Scarlet from Long Valley Equipment. Has PL style stainless locking ring, and 0.8 aperture gear so I can adjust iris on any Nikon lens, from my old AIS primes to my 17-55 G series zoom that has no iris ring. Super strong.

Almost all gone, though.
 
Douglas Underdahl said:
Posilock Nikon mount for Epic/Scarlet from Long Valley Equipment. Has PL style stainless locking ring, and 0.8 aperture gear so I can adjust iris on any Nikon lens, from my old AIS primes to my 17-55 G series zoom that has no iris ring. Super strong.

Almost all gone, though.
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I've got four different Nikon mounts: Allstar (quit using because of no G lens solution at the time) Optitek on one of my Epics and Long Valley on the other.

When upgraded to Dragon, the Optitek wouldn't mount with the new fans so I bought the RED Nikon mount for camera 1 and use the Long Valley on the other camera. I sometimes use an extender and do this exclusively on the Long Valley.
 
I think I was a little unclear. The question was about if you are buying a lens for example like the zeiss otus or the sigma art series and you have for example a Canon Epic Mount are you buying a EF version lens (with electronically controlled everything) or do you still buy a Nikon version so that you can manually adjust the iris with adapter and future proof in a way incase you ever move to a Nikon mount camera etc. I am thinking of getting the nikon versions and using adapters (but on the zeiss f mount lenses I find that the focus rotation will be opposite all of my other lenses if I go this way. Sigma someone mentioned all focus same direction no matter what mount style you buy.)
 
Elsie N said:
I've got four different Nikon mounts: Allstar (quit using because of no G lens solution at the time) Optitek on one of my Epics and Long Valley on the other.

When upgraded to Dragon, the Optitek wouldn't mount with the new fans so I bought the RED Nikon mount for camera 1 and use the Long Valley on the other camera. I sometimes use an extender and do this exclusively on the Long Valley.
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If you file out the front top of fan housing the Optitek will fit
 
Optitex Prolock provides external iris control on manual AI, AI-s D and "G" Nikon lenses. No need to have the lenses declicked. I use it more often than my Red Ti mount. I am old school, however. Just me.
 
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