Latest Canon (and not) News

Here are the latest Canon (and not) news

  • Canon U.S.A. Launches Mobile Printing And Scanning App For iPhone® and iPad® –> read it here
  • Scott Bourne: Five Things I Want The Camera Companies To Stop Doing Now –> read it here
  • Shooting in the Stratosphere with the Canon 5D Mark II and RED One –> read it here
  • Roger Cicala investigates Canon’s AF marketing claims –> read it here
  • Halo effect found with some Canon SLRs, Sigma lenses—but why? –> read it here
  • What The Heck Is Safety Shift – Canon Users Listen Up –> read it here
  • Canon’s New PowerShot SX500IS Does the Framing and Zooming for You –> read it here
  • When Is Your Camera Meter Wrong? (And What To Do About It) tutorial –> read it here
  • Canon EOS — Wildlife Photography Tutorial with Chris McLennan –> read it here
  • Canon [shoplink 2431]EOS 5D Mark III (specs&price)[/shoplink] – Tutorial Back Button AF –> read it here
  • Canon [shoplink 5623]EOS 650D (specs&price)[/shoplink] Digital SLR Review Roundup –> read it here
  • Understanding EOS HD Compression Options –> read it here
  • The iPad Workflow. A tutorial for photographers on the road. –> read it here
  • RAW is not Raw. Learn the differences. –> read it here
  • 7 High-Value Tasks That Will Make Your Photography Business More Valuable –> read it here
  • Canon [shoplink 4119]EOS-1D X (specs&price)[/shoplink] added to DxO Optics Pro 7.5.5 Elite –> read it here
  • DoF defined: controlling depth of field in photography –> read it here
  • The Long Exposure is a new e-book by landscape photographer David Cleland. An introduction to long exposure –> read it here
  • Canon PowerShot SX50 HS Review –> read it here
  • Realistic Small Scale Dioramas That Are Photographed and Then Destroyed finger7 Realistic Small Scale Dioramas That Are Photographed and Then Destroyed –> read it here

Remains of the day: More news of the last 24h

Photographer Hacks An EOS 5D Mark II To Mount Leica Lenses

Image credit: Robert Benson

Robert Benson, a photographer based in S. Diego, wanted to use his Leica Noctilux 50mm f/1 (around $6,500, [shoplink 7495 ebay]there is one on eBay[/shoplink]) lens. But he didn’t have a Leica for that purpose, so he decided to modify a Canon [shoplink 2431]EOS 5D Mark III[/shoplink] to mount Leica Lenses.

I modify 5dmk2 cameras and turn them into Leicas. But why? Here’s a little background: I have this $6500 exotic Noctilux 50mm f1 Leica lens, and didn’t have a camera to put it on. Couldn’t afford the M9 at the time, and wasn’t sure I wanted to afford it, so I decided to cut into a Canon 5dmk2 and modify it to accept Leica M lenses; all of them. I can do this modification for you.

He describes the procedure (isn’t that easy). R. Benson is doing this modification on your EOS 5D Mark II bodies if you want. He does everything (including getting an EOS 5D Mark II) for $2950

The modification isn’t easy; nearly impossible for the average person to do it. For modifications, the camera is completely dissasembled and the mirrorbox is stripped of its components and removed. The mirrorbox is then machined by a precision machinist – 30 years experience with hyper-minute detail – to the correct flange distance for Leica, 27.8mm.

The mirrorbox is reinforced with a two-part plexiglass frame. It is further reinforced with a 3mm thick piece of steel which serves as the lens mount. As a result, the mirrorbox is more durable than when it came out of the camera, and strong enough to hold even the weirdest, heaviest rangefinder lenses out there, from which there are hundreds. Everything is put back together by a factory trained camera technician.

Are you wondering which Leica lenses you can mount on the hacked EOS 5D Mark II?

It is custom modified to accept Leica rangefinder lenses and their equivalents. The camera has a 42mm or 39mm threaded mount – lenses – like all leica screwmount lenses, mount to the camera. If you want to use a bayonet M mount, you just use a screwmount flange, which I send with the modified camera. This goes in place of the bayonet mount on your lens(s).

There are sample images for you to check.

Image credit: Robert Benson
[Robert Benson via PetaPixel]

Remains Of The Day: Canon News Of The Last 24h

  • Manual Iris Control Offered on Zeiss ZE Canon Mount Lenses with the GL Optics Cinemod – read it here
  • Photoshop CS6 13.0.1 Update Now Available – read it here
  • Canon [shoplink 4119]EOS-1D X[/shoplink] AF at f/8 with the Kenko 1.4TC – read it here
  • One Memento: A Camera App That Can Only Shoot a Single Photograph. Ever. – read it here
  • Manual Focus Challenges with [shoplink 4853]Nikon D800[/shoplink] and [shoplink 2431]EOS 5D Mark III[/shoplink] – read it here

2012-10-06 Remains Of The Day – Latest Canon News Round-Up