I did today and there is a way to control the aperture, or at least open it wide open. As some of you know the Nikon G lenses have no aperture ring so the aperture in controlled by the camera body. You'll never have exact f stops below wide open, but it's another option that might open up more lenses available for the G1. The trick is the adapter. There is an original Nikon made adapter to C mount that has a aperture plunger ( actually opens the lens up to wide open ). With the use of an AR-2 shutter release you can lock the lens wide open and shoot! Or make some mild adjustments. My only DX lens is the new 35/1.8. So, I wonder how the 10.5/2.8 fish would do with this setup? I'm gonna assume that there shouldn't be any vignetting because the DX sensor is larger than the mft sensor--right? This means the 10.5 would be a relatively fast 21/2.8! If I had access to the 10.5 fish I would try it in a heartbeat. And as it is, I don't have a DX body--my Nikon DSLR is a D700. I believe there are other superwide zoom DX type lenses that are f/2.8. Has anyone played with this option yet?
Here's the adapter:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Nikon-F-C-Mount...ryZ21166QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
AR-2:
http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?from=R40&_trksid=m37&satitle=Nikon+AR-2
Tomorrow I'll take a picture of the complete setup.
Here's the adapter:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Nikon-F-C-Mount...ryZ21166QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
AR-2:
http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?from=R40&_trksid=m37&satitle=Nikon+AR-2
Tomorrow I'll take a picture of the complete setup.