Nikon Lens Adapter

[Emanuel A.]

hi (...)

stephen
(in disguise)

LOL

I'm sorry my good fellows. I'd like to be silent as well. But that one made me laugh 'till tears...

Stephen and Finner are great people posting here. And this forum rocks, definitely. United Colors of RED.

 

[Roberto B]

 

[Alex Boothby]

hi boothba,

stephen
(in disguise)

Okay now I'm laughing. I think you found your new signature.

 

[Roberto B]

Okay now I'm laughing. I think you found your new signature.

done..

 

[Stephen Williams]

Is that true? Or has the dementia of this thread affected even Stephen?

Hi,

It is true, possibly one could be designed with an optical element to change the FFL, but at what cost in $ & quality.

Stephen (real one)

 

[Jeff Kilgroe]

Jim has been saying: «the Trick is to have the base to intermediate mount distance set at the factory and leave enough room for all possible mounts».

And that's why there will be interchangeable mounts. I just don't see a PL to Nikon (or vice versa) being practical. The only way to make it work with an adapter, is that adapter would need several optical elements of its own to compensate for the different flange depth and it would add more length to the lens setup on the front of the camera, become more unweildy and the added elements would make your optics another stop or so slower. And just one more unit to collect dirt, fingerprints, dust, etc.. in the middle.

But just to reiterate what seems to be the best solution... Pick a mount and stick with it.

 

[chuck colburn]

I know I'm kinda jumping in here, and I have no idea if Nikon to PL adapters exist... But it seems to me that it wouldn't work well, if at all. The distance from the lens base or flange for a Nikon mount is like 46mm or something and for PL mount it's like 52mm. My numbers may be wrong, but I know they're different. If you already figure that the distance on a PL mount is wrong for a Nikon lens, then adding an adapter would make the distance even greater and more incorrect, wouldn't it? So an adapter may let you use the lens, but you would be getting entirely different focal lengths and different coverage of the sensor from what you would expect.

Good morning all,

Jeff is right except for the part about getting different focal lengths. Emanuel is right about having as shallow of a front base plate as possible to accept different mounts. It worked for Aaton.

Chuck

 

[Stephen Williams]

Hi All,

What I don't understand why you would need an intermediate adapter, why not just change the front of the camera with whatever mount at the right depth. Sometimes keeping it simple could work best.

Stephen

 

[Emanuel A.]

Stephen, as you know it's 'cause the distances and their differences, as well to try to solve the quick interchangeability need for people who would like to use lenses from different mounts. The majority I think.

Hey, I said «would like to use» not «will use» -- that answer only the RED team can gives us.

 

[Jeff Kilgroe]

Good morning all,

Jeff is right except for the part about getting different focal lengths. Emanuel is right about having as shallow of a front base plate as possible to accept different mounts. It worked for Aaton.

Well, kinda off... Have to put two of my posts together and then struggle with my quickly-typed mess of poor grammar. With an *adapter* the focal lengths would be off unless the adapter was a sophisticated piece of glass to refocus and align the image to the proper area on the sensor. with an *interchangeable mount* this is not an issue as the lenses would be mounted at the proper distance. Two different things... Not sure why someone would want an *adapter*, and if it would even be possible (read: economical) to make a proper PL to Nikon *adapter*. The Nikon *mount* for RED is a no-brainer and I'll be ordering one with mine so I can use my Nikkor lenses. While an *adapter* would be more convenient and much easier to deal with in the field, that's not going to happen.

 

[Peter Sensor]

I carry three different mounts with my P+S Technik mini 35, PL;Nikon F;Canon FD. I'm hopefull that RED will make the change as easy as P+S .
Peter at RP LENS.COM

 

[Roberto B]

Stephen (real one)

 

[Shawn Nelson]

I carry three different mounts with my P+S Technik mini 35, PL;Nikon F;Canon FD. I'm hopefull that RED will make the change as easy as P+S .
Peter at RP LENS.COM

Hmm, well Peter hasn't logged on in months. Does anyone else know how the P&S deals with collimation?

 

[tj williams]

Canon FD later??? how much later... later than Dec????