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I've just been watching winter watch on Tv and there was a feature on a guy shooting eagles, he was using a Nikon D800 with a chuffing huge white Canon L lens. Never seen a canon to Nikon adaptor before, anyone used one?
 
I thought that. Was that the canon 800mm lens? What's the largest Nikon do?
 
I spotted that too, the photographer was Gordon Buchanan.

I thought a Canon - Nikon adapter had to have a lens in to focus to infinity, and therefore degrades IQ.
 
Was it a Canon lens though? IIRC, Nikon did do some white (well, tropical grey) lenses.
 
I thought canon 800mm with 2x tc and he was filming using it. I'm pretty sure that flying footage was shot wit it, so it would have been manually focussed.
 
Nope ... just answering the question :)
Looks like the guy needed a decent camera for his work! :snaphappy:
 
Yv said:
I saw it too, not 100% sure, initial thought was it looked like canon, just had that 'look' about it, the whiteness aside. Also seemed to have an adaptor AND possibly a TC....
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Why not just use a Canon body or Nikon lens then and suffer no IQ degredation?
 
jomike said:
Why not just use a Canon body or Nikon lens then and suffer no IQ degredation?
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No idea, just saying what it looked like, might have been a nikon. I dont think it was 800mm either, I didn't think it was that big, though could be wrong, but I would say more like 500/600 mm? :thinking:
 
Probably a BBC thing ... equal opportunities :D
 
I've fired off a PM to Mr R, who has a pretty large collection of lenses, hopefully he will be able to shed some light on this. GB's on twitter so might help if asked (I'm not a tweeter so can't ask him!)
 
Nikon did produce some lenses in 'Tropical Grey'. I've got one - a 70-200 f/2.8. I think they also made a 400mm and 500mm in Tropical Grey. Could have been one of these.
 
500mm f/4

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I was watching earlier and I thought that it may be a manual focus Canon FD 300mm f/2.8 L with a custom-modified teleconverter serving as a mount adapter.
 
He's probably in a bar nursing a wee dram while he thaws out!
 
Aha! Well, it looks like he uses an FD 300/2.8L

http://www.mir.SPAM/rb/photography/companies/canon/fdresources/fdlenses/300mm.htm

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1:41 onward in this clip looks very much like he's using one with a Super 16 cine film camera and it looks like it's had the mount messed with a bit.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p007xvvd
 
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I found a screen shot on Twitter (Winterwatch is not up on iPlayer yet)

https://BANNED/PhotiqueDotNet/status/425379473459273728/photo/1

I'm now leaning toward it being an FD 400mm f/2.8L

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Well, it might also have been a Tokina AT-X 300/2.8 (a fine piece of glass by all accounts) :)

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though that's also an FD lens (not sure if they made it in white for other mounts) :LOL:
 
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Musicman said:
I found a screen shot on Twitter (Winterwatch is not up on iPlayer yet)

https://BANNED/PhotiqueDotNet/status/425379473459273728/photo/1

I'm now leaning toward it being an FD 400mm f/2.8L

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I think you're right. The physical characteristics of the lenses in those two images are very similar indeed. The FD 300/2.8 and 400/2.8 are very similar, but the lens GB is using in that screen shot looks too big to be the 300.

I think the only question remaining, then, is: why?
 
I reckon he's had it converted primarily for use on PL mount, where Manual focus isn't an issue or is even an advantage.

Since he has it, it's then fairly easy to adapt to F mount.
 
e="Musicman, post: 6059315, member: 12421"]I found a screen shot on Twitter (Winterwatch is not up on iPlayer yet)

https://BANNED/PhotiqueDotNet/status/425379473459273728/photo/1

I'm now leaning toward it being an FD 400mm f/2.8L

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Thats What i thought
 
Thanks for your input Stewart, I had a feeling you'd be able to help!
 
Oops! That'll teach me to scroll up!

Thanks to you, Rob.

I'm guessing that a proper mount conversion would address the register distance discrepancies between Canons and Nikons?
 
Nod said:
I'm guessing that a proper mount conversion would address the register distance discrepancies between Canons and Nikons?
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Yes. That's why you can mount Canon FD lenses on Nikon DSLRs but not on Canon DSLRs, and you can mount Nikon lenses on either.
 
Nod said:
I'm guessing that a proper mount conversion would address the register distance discrepancies between Canons and Nikons?
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It looks like they've had to sacrifice the aperture control ring to get sufficient depth with the reworked mount, possibly the whole aperture mechanism is gone. I wonder if he's using Waterhouse Stops in the drop in filter to control the aperture?
 
BTW, if anyone's wondering why his has an extra black ring at the front, it's the locking mechanism for the built in hood, which is extended in the screen cap on Twitter I linked to earlier, but retracted in the other photos of the lens up the thread.
 
Firstly, is that a great big blob of blu-tak covering the synch socket?

Then,
Yv said:
hmmm....probably, given his latest tweet a couple of hours ago...
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Did you ask him exactly what he was using etc?
 
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