It's a Pentacon 6 mount Carl Zeiss Jena Biometar 80mm f2.8 mounted on a Vivitar, Hasselblad-formulated Mamiya 645 mount 2x teleconverter adapted to a Mamiya-Canon shift adaptor mounted on a Canon 1.4x teleconverter with the pins taped. On a 5D.
With hardly any trouble at all, the same method transforms my $250 CZJ 300/4 into a handy 1,345mm / f11 for the 400D . . . ace!
hubsand wrote:
...mounted on a Hartblei Pentacon Six 2x teleconverter adapted to a Mamiya-Canon shift adaptor mounted on a Canon 1.4x teleconverter with the pins taped.
Edited by hubsand on Aug 07, 2007 at 03:17 PM GMT
Ya, I will have to pick one of those up! Whats the SKU # on that Item? Just kidding.
It did, but it's OK because I removed the mirror and mounted it periscope-style in a toilet roll inner tube sellotaped to the hot-shoe. Now everything works great!
Seriously, though, you should have known that Canon's 1.4x TC, on which the lens is mounted, would never have mirror clearance trouble, as you can see in this annotated picture of my Amazingly Sharp 224mm f8 special edition. That's 358mm / f8 on a 30D.
My ZD back landed at Nottingham Airport at 2.44pm today. I've delayed a long series of location shoots in order to use it throughout the back end of the summer. Until it arrives, I'm giving some of my MF lenses a workout on the 5D.
Anything looks good resampled down that far – even the CA-powered catchlights in the cat's eyes . . . on my forum you'd be banned for posting a downsampled image and even mentioning resolving ability in the same post!
What is it with you and adaptor thickness?! My Super 224mm f8 contains no less than two adaptors, AND two stacked teleconverters; it laughs at such trivia.
Sheesh! Can't a guy have a little fun? That Frankenstein monster is actually pretty darn amusing & it's impressive that it not only works, but works well. Besides, it's not a MF sensor.
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