New NX11 owner and a question about MF lenses

yosser70 wrote:

Hi all

I've just got myself a NX11 and really pleased with it after a bit of a play. One of the reasons for getting it is to use old MF lenses on it, I've got a Konica 57mm 1.4 and a 135mm 3.2 on their way to me and I've got a couple of questions about using these. I know the NX11 has a 1.5 crop factor with NX lenses but does adding a adapter change this at all? Also do the focus distance markings on the MF lenses still relate properly to actual distances?

Cheers

You can adapt almost any popular existing manual lens mount to NX. Excepting Leica M but LTM will fit (beware of lens back protrusion though as you only have 9.2mm to play with from memory and some LTM lenses need as much as 20mm space).

EOS lenses will not work properly as they need an electrical connection to work the aperture therefore will only work wide open. Others such an auto focus PK can be used with special adapters with a manual aperture control lever in the adapter including the Samsung oem version.

FD adapters do not need any special glass but work fine to infinity wthout them.

The crop factor requires a multiplier for focal length of 1.5x. The Distance scales remain unchanged.

I have used the NX10 very successfully with FD, PK (auto/manual focus) M42, LTM, and EOS (wide open only) mounts. You might need glass in a Nikon adapter. The glass necessary as mentioned in another post is to convert Canon FD to Canon EOS EF. Canon surely abandoned it's FD users when it went EF.

Hope they don't similarly decide to abandon their EOS EF users when they go EVIL.