Olof Ekbergh
February 5th, 2009, 05:43 PM
I thought some may find this interesting. I just got the adapter and dusted off some FL lenses from the 60's and 70's. And did a quick and dirty shoot in our office. No lighting, just natural light from a big window. The lenses are identified in the video.
The old lenses have very different look to them (from each other too). The 50mm has a nice silk effect, if I really clean the old dust and grime out I will probably loose that effect.
The Bower does add a 1.25 x to lenses. You get full manual control of the aperture and focus, on this shoot I did not use any ND's.
This does add a few more interesting looks to our arsenal, we mostly shoot XDHD. The bokeh is really cool even in the 24mm lens.
I had problems with Vimeo so I stuck it on my GoDaddy site.
Link: Testing Bower FD-EOS adapter on old lenses and Canon 5DmkII on Vimeo (http://www.westsidestudios.com/CanonFDlenses/index.html)
The old lenses have very different look to them (from each other too). The 50mm has a nice silk effect, if I really clean the old dust and grime out I will probably loose that effect.
The Bower does add a 1.25 x to lenses. You get full manual control of the aperture and focus, on this shoot I did not use any ND's.
This does add a few more interesting looks to our arsenal, we mostly shoot XDHD. The bokeh is really cool even in the 24mm lens.
I had problems with Vimeo so I stuck it on my GoDaddy site.
Link: Testing Bower FD-EOS adapter on old lenses and Canon 5DmkII on Vimeo (http://www.westsidestudios.com/CanonFDlenses/index.html)