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Canon camcorders which can take lenses from still cameras?

I am looking for a camcorder which can take lenses from a digital still camera, like a EF lenses of Canon. Any ideas?

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1. if you look around, there is a mount of sorts that screws into the tripod hole in the camera and adjusts to hold screw on type lenses from some slrs.

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2. I've never heard of one, and I'd be surprised if one exists. Camcorder chips are generally smaller than DSLR's so you'd be losing a lot of light.

3. you may be thinking of the Hi8 analog camcorder that canon made a long time ago. that was the last camcorder built by canon with 1/2 inch ccds. newer models are much smaller imagers which makes the idea moot.

it would be silly to buy a non-digital camcorder at this point. professional versions of DV camcorders usually feature removeable lenses, but a lens for video use is much different design than for still photography which is another reason canon did not continue the project.