Adapters for Nikon Z and the results

[faberryman]

Because canon might offer something Nikon won’t or Sony will. Just take a look at the DSLR market. No player has all perfect lenses and all are missing some updated ones.

And yet you rarely hear of a Canon shooter using an adapted Nikon lens or vice versa.

[kers]

And yet you rarely hear of a Canon shooter using an adapted Nikon lens or vice versa.

I could think of a CanonR body with an Nikkor 300mmPF  or a NikonZ with some of the new Canon TS-lenses.

In the past canon shooters used the 14-24mm Nikkor for there was no Canon alternative.

[hogloff]

The Z is the only mount that will enable the adaptation of lenses from other mirrorless systems, starting with FE.

Today we consider adaptation as being relevant for pre mirrorless lenses, but those will soon be obsolete. Within two or three years the only new lens developments will be in mirrorless and lens adaptation will mostly make sense btwn mirrorless mounts.

Cheers,
Bernard

Who says that Canon and Nikon mirrorless cannot be adapted to Sony mirrorless. Just because there is no mount, yet, just implies there is just no real demand to adapt either Canon or Nikon onto Sony as Sony has a fairly complete set of lenses available to it.

[BernardLanguillier]

Who says that Canon and Nikon mirrorless cannot be adapted to Sony mirrorless. Just because there is no mount, yet, just implies there is just no real demand to adapt either Canon or Nikon onto Sony as Sony has a fairly complete set of lenses available to it.

I do really understand your absolute desire to paint Sony as a system superior in every possible way, but it is physically impossible to mount Z lenses on a Sony body.

Indeed, the flange distance of the Z mount is 2mm shorter and the mount is 10mm larger.

Unless the laws of mechanics change dramatically, this will never ever become possible. The same way it was never possible to mount EOS lenses on F mount DSLRs.

Cheers,
Bernard

[BernardLanguillier]

And yet you rarely hear of a Canon shooter using an adapted Nikon lens or vice versa.

Thousands, if not tens of thousands, of Canon shooters used to adapt the Nikon 14-24mm f2.8.

I hear that there are also some adapting the 19mm T/S recently.

Cheers,
Bernard

[faberryman]

Thousands, if not tens of thousands, of Canon shooters used to adapt the Nikon 14-24mm f2.8. I hear that there are also some adapting the 19mm T/S recently.

So one lens, maybe two.

[BernardLanguillier]

So one lens, maybe two.

Well, those lenses made a huge difference for the photographers who needed them.

Cheers,
Bernard

[BernardLanguillier]

Another option to mount E mount lenses on Z bodies:

https://photorumors.com/2019/02/27/voigtlander-also-announced-two-new-lenses-for-sony-e-mount-and-for-leica-m-mount-and-six-different-mirrorless-lens-adapter/#more-107312

A great move because all the Voigtlander lenses for E mount are now usable on the Z. I guess we will also probably get native version pretty soon.

Cheers,
Bernard