Canon lenses on m4/3

[jake_burns]

<p>Hi everyone,<br>

Just joined today, cause I need to know: can I use my canon EF lenses with Panasonic GF-1? If so, then where can I get the adaptor?<br>

Thanks everyone,<br>

j</p>

[paul_wheatland]

<p>The only lenses that may not work are those that do not have an aperture ring, ie. Nikkor G and IX and Canon lenses lacking this ring. Canon FD lenses should work, adapters are available on the bay auction site.</p>

[godfrey]

<p>Ebay vendor "jinfinance" makes an adapter to allow Canon EOS (EF series) lenses to be fitted to Micro-FourThirds cameras. There are no electronics in the adapter, which means that the use of such lenses allows manual focus only and there is no aperture control (all exposures will be made at wide open aperture). </p>

<p>There's a hack to allow you to stop down a Canon EF lens for shooting ... you need a Canon body to do it. Basically, you put the lens on the body, press the DoF Preview button, and remove the lens with the DoF Preview engaged. This leaves the lens stopped down to the aperture you had it set to. It will stay that way until you next mount it on a Canon body and power it up. Clumsy, but for "special purpose" lenses it would work ok. </p>

<p>Otherwise, it's better to adapt other makes of lenses that have aperture control rings. </p>

[yoshio]

<p>Jake<br>

welcome.</p>

<p>To add to the information above, its worth mentioning that you will have no automation such as focus or aperture control. As Godfrey has suggested there is a way to set the aperture, but once on the micro4/3 body it remains fixed.</p>

<p>This location is quite quiet for m4/3 information I can recommend some groups that are more active on this topic <strong><a href="http://forum.getdpi.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=44">here</a> </strong> and <strong><a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups/1084614@N23/">here</a> </strong> , the last one is a smaller group but is dedicated for using legacy lenses on the m4/3 cameras. Personally while also having EOS I purchased a few FD lenses (and some OM ones as I use them on my EOS camera too) as they are well priced and optically excellent</p>

[keith selmes]

<p>I have an EF adapter for M43. I never thought of using an EF lens with it though, as it would not indeed have any aperture control.</p>

<p>It happens I have manual lenses, like Contax and Jupiter, with EF adapters fitted for a Canon body, and I can use all of those on an M43 body with just the one EF to M43 adapter. So I can mix lenses between cameras with least fuss.</p>

[jake_burns]

<p>Thanks for all the responses. I'm really bummed I can't use EF glass, but buying into the FD system sound interesting. I'm definitely going to research.<br>

Thanks again,<br>

j</p>

[adam_bliss]

<p>They are all right that you will have a hard time with the aperture ring but it's not all bad, you just have to get creative when thinking about your shots. I've found that as long as I'm going out for specific shots like street shooting or portraits where you want small depth of field Canon lenses work great. That's also a great tip about the DOF preview button I'll have to give that a shot.</p>

<p>I've written a few articles on adapters for the E-P2, hope it's ok to share here.....<br>

http://www.knowphoto.com/2010/02/olympus-e-p2-adapter-ring-for-eos-ef/<br>

http://www.knowphoto.com/2010/02/review-nikon-lens-adapter-for-olympus-e-p2/</p>

[philip_wilson]

<p>The Fd lenses work great on M4/3. While I have an extensive collection of EF lenses I have never been tempted to buy the adaptor. The issude with the Fd lenses is that you essentially have no wide angle. Unless you get the (very expensive) 14mm F2.8 you are essentially limited to the 17mm F4 (34mm effective) or 15mm F2.8 fisheye (effective 30mm). i have both of these lenses and they work well on the G1. Other FD lenses I have had sucess with include the 24mm F2, 100 F4 macro, 35 f2, 85 f1.2, 50 f1.4, 135 f2 and 80-200 F4L zoom. If you shoot macro the 100 f4 and g1 (especially with the 50mm extension tube) work great.</p>