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Big difference between 50 and 60 for some folks. Many people have mentioned that the 50 is just a hair too short for a portrait lens. 19/30/60 also very nicely mimics some classic rangefinder prime...

I think Sony's adapters are the only option. A quick Google search didn't turn up any third-party options. The problem with a purely mechanical adapter is there'd be no way to set the aperture. The...

No way. Twice as thick due to the mirror box, and that's not considering the big-old lenses you have to slap on. Canon has a whopping ONE small lens. Lookie, with comparable kit lenses:...

My two cents is this. Most of the time when you're shooting with a wide-angle lens, you stop down to extend the depth-of-field anyways. That single stop from 2.8 to 4.0 is irrelevant because how...

Maybe Sony doesn't want people to use it with the F3, as it's the only model in the 3 line that's compatible. Kind of superior to the 5N/R because you can get EVF and flash at the same time.

Are you referring to the 20? It doesn't have stabilization :(

The 5 and 7 lines are the ones that have all-metal shells. Plastic is one of the concessions you make going down from the 7 to the 6. Still, it likely feels more solid than the 5s because the grip...

The shape in the bokeh is determined by the shape the aperture blades form, so they could be slightly askew. There are actually toy lenses that will make a heart shaped bokeh!

It'll be 1.3 in light gathering but around 1.9 in depth of field. EDIT: Actually it might be larger (1.3 like you said) in light gathering and then somewhere around 1.4 or 1.5 in depth of field. I...

I was referring only to legacy lessons as that was what his question was about. I think that was pretty clear, as was his statement that he was only interested in M, M39, and FD...

I'd consider image quality a wash between the two of them. Ultimately it comes down to this: EPL-5 is stabilized, but it's tough to find anything wider than a 50mm equivalent field of view because...

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Grab the 35 as your every day versatile lens and get a legacy 50 with adapter for less than a hundred bucks to cover the limited use cases of that FL (portraits). The legacies have their own merits...

This is great advice!

Also this is on a tripod right? Even with OSS you shouldn't handhold anything longer than 1/6 or so. And if it is on a tripod then you should turn OSS off. And yea, diffraction is likely at f22....

What's up with the crazy vignette in the corners? Do you have a bunch of filters stacked?

I'm sure they do. Professional criminals aren't desperate and simple-minded. Someone willing to risk running up and swiping a camera (or hell, a lens) right off someone isn't going to spring for a...

Found a review on Flickr, but it's on the OM-D. You can run it through Google Translate: http://www.gadgetguy.de/2013/05/23/sigma-60mm-f2-8-dn-testbericht/ He seems to like it and the images are...

Most people are buying APS-C or smaller, so labelling APS-C lenses with the 35mm format equivalent field-of-view as a standard doesn't make much sense, either. There's nothing inherent about the...

Mhm. I'd probably be okay with the size minus the adapter given the convenience of the range and quality in one lens. I might even be okay *with* the adapter. It's still smaller than a full-size...