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So I found a new lens today. It's an old Canon movie camera lens that my friend just had sitting up in his attic. He said he got them (he has 3-4 of these cameras just lying around) when the Weather Channel was upgrading their cameras and were going to throw away their old ones.

It's a "J15ax8B" 8-120mm f/1.7. I did a google search for J15ax8B and it turns out it's quite an expensive lens.

What I'm trying to figure out is if I could find a mount converter so that I could put it on a Canon DSLR. If anyone has any idea of how I could do this I would be much appreciative.
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Mount.
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Side-by-side comparison.

The movie camera lens on the left, a Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 on the right. The actual mount is definitely a lot smaller, but the glass seems to be similarly sized.
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After removing the zoom controls and all the Weather Channel stickers.
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last one
>> des
>>243936
It's a television lens, not cine
You could probably find some poor UHF station that needs some replacement ENG gear and make some bucks.
>> Anonymous
>>243948It's a television lens, not cine

what's the difference?
>> Anonymous
>>243952

aspect ratio i'm guessing
>> Anonymous
>>243948
ah, thanks. Think there would be any way to convert it for SLR use or should I just sell it?
>> Anonymous
>>243956
OP here. Actually it looks like it switches between 4:3 and 16:9 so aspect ratio doesn't really seem to be a problem.
>> Anonymous
>>243957

it won't project nearly enough to cover your sensor

it will be like.. half a 4/3 sensor size
>> Anonymous
Sell it.
>> Anonymous
8-120mm
That's probably going to have some serious crop. Like, 3x crop factor if the wide end should be 24mm equiv. It'll cover only around half an APS sized sensor.
>> Anonymous
Why don't you just sell it and buy a lens that actually fits your camera?
>> Anonymous
>>244042
I probably will. I just didn't know if it was possible to convert it to work with an SLR. I mean let's face it, an 8-120 f/1.7 would be ungodly if it actually worked well on an SLR before I looked at selling it.