From the course: Video Gear: Cameras & Lenses
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Choosing and connecting a lens adapter
From the course: Video Gear: Cameras & Lenses
Choosing and connecting a lens adapter
- Now Rich when it comes to choosing an adapter the first thing you have to decide or rather know is you're going from what to what. Now it's going to be fairly easy to adapt DSLR style mounts to another DSLR style mount. If you're going from Canon and Nikon you can go to Nikon or Canon, that kind of thing. It gets a little bit more complicated when you want to start using older style mounts that you know sort of some of the C style mounts, licha mounts, you know some of the Canon FD mounts, but the thing about it is that there's going to be a lot of adapters out there. Where it gets really confusing I think for people is when people start talking about things like flange distance and the mirror box and all these kind of things. As a general rule of thumb it's going to be really hard to adapt something like a micro 4/3rds system or something like that where you have a very very very narrow flange distance, that is from the front of the camera to the-- - Are you touching my sensor? - I…
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