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Equipment & Techniques => Medium Format / Film / Digital Backs – and Large Sensor Photography => Topic started by: griffithimage on February 14, 2011, 10:24:39 am

Title: Bronica Glass
Post by: griffithimage on February 14, 2011, 10:24:39 am

I have a number of Bronica PG lenses (6x7) collecting dust. Does anyone make adapters for a canon digital body? Can these be adapted to the new Pentax 645d? I've heard that Bronica ETR 645 lenses can be adapted to canon bodies, I wonder if the leaf shutter PG will be problematic?

Title: Re: Bronica Glass
Post by: geesbert on February 16, 2011, 04:32:01 am

I guess contacting Mr. Zörkendörfer at www.zoerk.de should be your best bet.

Title: Re: Bronica Glass
Post by: ondebanks on February 16, 2011, 10:15:53 am

Quote from: griffithimage on February 14, 2011, 10:24:39 am

I have a number of Bronica PG lenses (6x7) collecting dust. Does anyone make adapters for a canon digital body? Can these be adapted to the new Pentax 645d? I've heard that Bronica ETR 645 lenses can be adapted to canon bodies, I wonder if the leaf shutter PG will be problematic?

No problem with any Bronica lenses - you simply won't be using the leaf shutter, you'd be using the camera's focal plane shutter.

There are Bronica SQ adapters on ebay (to Canon, Nikon, also Mamiya/PhaseOne 645), but apparently no PG adapters...yet.

Title: Re: Bronica Glass
Post by: griffithimage on February 16, 2011, 10:30:53 am

 what are the advantages/disadvantages of using these lenses? (Besides the obvious manual focus)

Title: Re: Bronica Glass
Post by: c_soars on February 16, 2011, 05:21:12 pm

Other than making use of the larger image circle on some kind of tilt/shift adapter, not much.  Heavy, manual stop down, most of them translate to  (less useful) longer focal lengths on the smaller sensor of your body...