{"id":7770,"date":"2010-02-19T22:07:44","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T22:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philipbloom.co.uk\/?p=7770"},"modified":"2010-02-20T01:16:18","modified_gmt":"2010-02-20T01:16:18","slug":"modified-7d-pl-mount-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philipbloom.net\/blog\/modified-7d-pl-mount-camera\/","title":{"rendered":"Modified 7D-PL mount camera"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I met Illya Friedman from hotrodcameras.com<\/a> last year when I went to Joshua Tree with a pre-production GH1<\/a>. He had a PL lens adaptor for the GH1 and brought some very nice Glass with him.<\/p>\n

Well he has done something pretty serious here and taken a normal 7D and turned it into a serious movie making machine by removing the mirror box and replacing the EOS mount with a rugged as hell PL mount. This is serious stuff!!<\/p>\n

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PL lenses, if you don’t know are positive lock lenses are the mount that cinema lenses use. There were a number of Panavision PL mount adaptors out there for the 7D but there were are molten down by Panavison!<\/p>\n

This means you can use the same lenses that you would use on 35mm film or cameras like the F35 on your 7D. This is not a indie filmmakers setup but if you are shooting a movie and want a B camera or two or three or you are using it as your A camera and you have the budget or access to high end glass then this is the way forward.<\/p>\n

The sensor on the 7D is similar is size to a super 35mm sensor hence that is why he has done this on a 7D, not a 1dmkiv or a 5d2 as their sensors are too big and vignettting will occur.<\/p>\n

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