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Old cinema lenses, easy to identify mounts?

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Pixellegolas New Member • Posts: 9
Old cinema lenses, easy to identify mounts?

Hi. I am looking at alot of old cinema cameras and really want to pull off the lenses and put on my eos m and see how it goes. Are all old lenses c-mount or m42? Any resource to easily see cameras mounts. I am looking at our country's craigslist and see cinema cameras. Would love to know if it can for my eos m. Example pic says 8mm. On Google it seems like most 8mm where c-mount. Is it that easy?

trungtran Senior Member • Posts: 1,747
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I would move this to the adapted lens forum.

A picture of the lens mount will help people identify the mount.

C mount has a smaller image circle. You could get away with it using magic lantern and crop mode on the M.

My experience is that is not worth adapting c mount lenses. I have never been happy with the IQ.

I would stick to SLR lens if you are looking at adapting and want usable pictures.

There are plenty of M42 lenses on the used market that can be had for fairly cheap.

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OP Pixellegolas New Member • Posts: 9
Re: Old cinema lenses, easy to identify mounts?

Ok thanks, so if I can find m42 they could work quite well with the eosm then? If people don't state anything in an ad, just the camera, it seems quite hard to know the mount Will search for m42 then

trungtran Senior Member • Posts: 1,747
Re: Old cinema lenses, easy to identify mounts?

Pixellegolas wrote:

Ok thanks, so if I can find m42 they could work quite well with the eosm then? If people don't state anything in an ad, just the camera, it seems quite hard to know the mount Will search for m42 then

The m42 mount will fit with the correct adapter. I wouldn't look at old video cameras. Stick to SLR kits or lenses specifically.

A simple search will give you plenty of options.

Ebay M42 lenses

Be warned it can be a rabbit hole. I was gifted a Minolta 50mm lens and tried it on my M3 about 7 years ago and now I have too many vintage lenses.

There are adapters for most of the SLR mounts to EF-M mount so you can also look at other mounts.

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OP Pixellegolas New Member • Posts: 9
Re: Old cinema lenses, easy to identify mounts?

Yeah I already have an MD-EOSM mount and 2 vintage lenses:

Minolta ROKKOR -PF 50mm 1,7

TOKINA 35mm 2,8

It is a bit addicting to find lenses that fit and take good pictures

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