Canon makes a camera with a Nikon F-mount

manhattanboy

Canon makes a camera with a Nikon F-mount. Thought this was interesting.

http://www.canonwatch.com/canon-announces-industrial-camera-nikon-f-mount-m15p-cl/

ChasCS

That's progress...
There have been adapters for Canon, to using Nikons fine lens lineup, and others for along while.
http://diglloyd.com/articles/ask/lenses-LensAdapters.html
http://www.16-9.net/nikon_g/
http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/roxsen-converter.htm
http://www.camerahacker.com/Novoflex/EOSNIK.shtml
Too bad it can't work both ways...

Chas

TaoTeJared

I saw that too and I got a chuckle out of it.
There are a lot of companies that focus on industrial imaging that use Nikon mounts. Nikon must have got into that market eons ago with their lenses and the mount just was adopted. I have seen gobs of the manual focus 55mm macros used on equipment. Most of them have to be 20+ years old. Makes since for companies to match imaging units to existing set-ups.

bland

In one way it would sound like a good marketing ploy by Canon.
But you can also look at it as Canon admitting their glass isn't as good as Nikkor.

PB_PM

Or simply that they don't make industrial class lenses. My guess is that the Nikkors we put on our standard DSLR's are not the ones used in industrial applications.

Symphotic

Or simply that they don't make industrial class lenses. My guess is that the Nikkors we put on our standard DSLR's are not the ones used in industrial applications.

TTJ is right again. Nikon has a long history of selling to the industrial market.
Many industrial cameras use standard Nikkor lenses. We (Symphotic TII Corporation) have a laser spectroscopy system for remote chemical sensing that uses a sony camera and a Nikkor mount. We use a standard 180 mm f/2.8D Nikkor. The only other option we use is C mount lenses, but we prefer the Nikkor 180.

TaoTeJared

Or simply that they don't make industrial class lenses. My guess is that the Nikkors we put on our standard DSLR's are not the ones used in industrial applications.

Actually they are - most are the old manual focus 55mm f3.5 or f2.8 versions of lenses and even some 60mm 2.8s. Every once in a while I saw some old 50's as well. I did see some rubber boots over a few, but from the look of things, It was probably added after the fact.

Symphotic

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Many industrial cameras use standard Nikkor lenses. We (Symphotic TII Corporation) have a laser spectroscopy system for remote chemical sensing that uses a sony camera and a Nikkor mount. ....

We also have a particle counting system that uses a Nikon microscope objective coupled to a commercial off the shelf Nikon D5100 DX camera. The D5100 is overkill for the application, but the price is right.