Nikon Lens Adapter

[Roberto B]

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

hi boothba,

it's true man..

stephen
(in disguise)

[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. :D

[Roberto B]

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

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.