Fuji X-E1 : Canon EOS lens adapter

Hi Marcus,

I recently shifted from Canon to Fuji but kept my lenses.  The adapter I went with was the Kipon one (approx $90 on flea bay) the quality of the adapter is excellent and it fits securely.  The built in iris is about 15 blades and smooth as butter... The only problem with this iris is that it doesn't really do anything

it sounds like a great idea to allow EOS lenses to stop down in the adapter (there are no contacts to allow the camera to talk to the lens) but in practice you have to close the iris about 70% of the way down to get the camera to register a drop in light but all you've really done is introduce a heap of vignetting to the image.

i have a Zeiss 21mm ZE myself and its a gorgeous piece of glass but I really want to swap it for a Nikon ZF.2 version to get the aperture ring back and use it with the X-E1.

so I'd say that Canon lenses produce great images on the Fuji's but getting around the aperture issue is more difficult than I first anticipated.  You could use your EOS body to change apertures as you un-mount them but that  defeats the purpose of the great walk around Fuji size.

if you have any other queries let me know

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