That's gotta be a joke. There's no internal glass element onto which the 35mm lens can be focused. Note the last comment on the page. Besides, if in fact, you could achieve some degree of focus, it would be incredibly tedious.

The Letus does have a vibrating or rotating frosted
"glass" onto which the image is focused. I understand that film schools use these adapters with DV cameras to teach film shooting without the cost of film.

You absolutely need an HD monitor as the flip out screen is not reliable.

LetusMini isn't bad (i have it) but it doesn't really let you deal with your zoom's lens back focus (so you can't zoom in focus and zoom out).

Here is a pic of my rig:
http://www.patrykrebisz.com/canon.html

you can't really go with less then that.

Patryk,

That's intense man! Do you have any sample pics or am I seeing those at films.html? Would you be willing to break down what that ended up costing you?

Jonathan

I was referring to this link not the Letus:

"And wondering if it would work to use something like this: "

http://deanwolf.net/vlog/2008/01/07/cheapest-canon-hv20-35mm-lens-adapter-ever/

http://www.patrykrebisz.com/hv20/hv20_stills.html

It adds up really quickly (about $3300 total):
Canon HV20 - $650
LetusMini - $1150
Cavision rails - $120
Ikan HD monitor - $750
XLR box (not pictured) - $140
Monitor arm (different then the one in the pic) - $120
2x long-lasting battery - 2x $130
Lenses were "free" because they were purchased for still photo camera

Pros:
-- the rig is small and can be used hand-held
-- the images are still HD (though not as sharp as camera without the lenses, obviously)
-- you use the blurry background to generate abstract shapes rather then worry of what it means (no more worry about over exposing bg!)

Cons:
-- light hungry (as all mini35 adapters) - be prepared to pour tons of light at your subject/scene
-- both camera and the rig has its own quirks that you need to know before becoming really profficient

the only way I can imagine that working is if the light comes through the 35 lens, and then goes into the camera's lens and re-reverses back to to be flipped going onto the sensor, and if the focal lengths are exactly right, they could create a focused image - certainly not worth the hassle IMO, and it would likely create a DOF so shallow that it might not be worth anything, not to mention the fact that it might only be useable in macro work period.

Dave

The cost of most 35m adapters is why Canon is going to sell a few boat loads of the 5DmkII.

What is the camera sitting on, is that the 10 hour battery for the monitor?

I bought 2 static DOF adapters which I use on my Canon HF10. I can now use my Canon 50mm 1.2 and 85-300mm 4.5 lenses.

The setup is easy. Look on [http://www.vimeo.com/] and search for DOF adapters.

The way it works is that the image is reflected on a Ground Glass Screen and your cam films off this screen. The image will be up-sidedown but you fix this in post production.