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any point in using Nikon lenses if you have a canon cam and vice versa ?

  • 12-07-2011 1:28pm
    #1
    jcf
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,081 ✭✭✭


    A friend of mine who is really getting into photography decided to get himself a converter for his Canon body (450d) so he can use Nikon lenses ?

    is there a point to this ?

    What Nikon lens is superior to the Canon equivalent that warrants a convertor ?


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  • #2
    Hugh_C
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,852 ✭✭✭Hugh_C


    jcf wrote: »
    is there a point to this ?

    pretty much no.

    It's a compromise and the glass built for one camera won't be ideal on another. Possible problems are back-focus and increased CA.


  • #3
    DaireQuinlan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,713 ✭✭✭DaireQuinlan


    jcf wrote: »
    A friend of mine who is really getting into photography decided to get himself a converter for his Canon body (450d) so he can use Nikon lenses ?

    is there a point to this ?

    What Nikon lens is superior to the Canon equivalent that warrants a convertor ?

    If you have access to a pile of Nikon lenses already, or there's one particular lens that you fancy that you want to use then I don't see why you wouldn't do it. The Canon mount distance is a couple of mm shorter than the Nikon one, so you can mount Nikkors and still get infinity focus.
    There are some legendary Nikon lenses, the 85mm f/1.4 for example, or (on a more modest scale) the 105 f/2.5, but you'd be better off just getting some Nikon body to suit if you were hankering after the lenses.

    I have bought bodies before solely to mount a particular lens. I had a Helios 44, for example, mounted on my nikon bodies, but without infinity focus. I bought a Pentax Spotmatic to use just that lens. Of course it's like a gateway drug, I now find myself idly browsing for other M42 lenses on EBay :rolleyes:


  • #4
    jcf
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,081 ✭✭✭jcf


    Yeah I was thinking the same, he may as well get a cheap Nikon body


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