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[Michael A. Covington]

I received my Chinese-made Nikon-lens-to-EOS adapter (purchased on eBay)
today and used it to try some Nikon lenses on my Digital Rebel. Brief
impressions:

(1) Of course, there is no autofocus or aperture coupling; you have to focus
manually, set the aperture on the lens, and use the camera on Av or M.

(2) It focuses to infinity. In fact it is 0.5 mm thinner than it needs to
be. As a result infinity is actually somewhat short of the infinity mark.
This is more than enough room for variation between lenses.

(3) It is somewhat hard to remove from the Nikon lens. The secret is to
notice how the little push-tab works. Instead of pressing the edge of the
tab as if it were a lever, press as near to the middle of it as you can get.
It's best to pay attention to how this works before attaching it to a lens.

(4) Once the Nikon lens has been stopped down, it's hard to open it all the
way up again. Something is bumping part of the Canon body, I think. To
open the lens up I sometimes had to remove the whole thing from the camera.

I'll post a review of this on www.covingtoninnovations.com/dslr soon.
Summary: For $25 it's well worth it, and adequate for my purposes
(astrophotography with long Nikon lenses on Canon body), but I can see why
there's a market for more expensive ones.

Should I buy the Ukrainian one, I wonder? Or bite the bullet and pay big
bucks for Novoflex?


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Clear skies,

Michael A. Covington
Author, Astrophotography for the Amateur
www.covingtoninnovations.com/astromenu.html