Duclos Lenses

I came across Matthew Duclos’ Circle of Confusion blog and found some great articles about converting still lenses for DSLR video. The post that caught my eye was about the difference in Still vs Cine lenses:

One might assume that a lens is a lens and you can simply adapt any lens to suit ones needs. This is usually a matter of changing or adapting the mount just so the square peg fits in the square hole. The fact is that still lenses and cine lenses are very different and can’t always be interchangeable

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Lens adapters for Micro Four Thirds and Canon HDSLRs

If you are looking for a lens adapter to shoot Leica M on a Panasonic GH-1, a Nikon lens on a Canon Camera, or any lens/camera combination you can come up with, Fotodiox seems like the place to go since they have pages and pages of adapters for medium format and 35mm lenses.. I first saw them mentioned in the comments section on Shane Hurlbut’s blog post called Still Lenses That Can Grace The Big Screen.
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