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The forum seems to be roughly three months old and now has nine pages of threads. I hope that the forum has fulfilled a need and it seems to have developed its own type of focus (as forums must do).

I note that some of our early members seem to have dropped off and maybe we just might be missing out on areas of interest that would keep the attention of a wider field of subjects. I would like to welcome those who are now lurking to contribute some of their valuable wisdom.

Maybe the first head of steam has worn off and the subjects might have lost some lustre. I hope we can introduce some new topics that will stimulate debate - in the meantime a steady level of chat shows that the forum has been worth while and continues to provide interesting threads.

I note that some of the more obscure questions being asked are on subjects that few have knowledge of and therefore answers are slow in coming if at all. This I think is a natural issue with this particular type of forum.

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Thanks for doing this Tom! This niché group is a lot of fun to participate in!
 
Tom,

For many of us using adapted lenses a new thing. I never used an adapted lens with my Nikons.

Some folk have been using them for years and even putting other mounts ,DIY, on different lenses and making their own adapters.

I for one, find the Forum very informative and interesting. Use of adapters with lenses I've always wanted to use/try is great fun. Most of my shooting is done with Native lenses so I do not post much.

I just used the Commlite adapter to photograph a very black Drongo (bird) in the garden with the a7II and Nikon 300 2.8vr and I had the Leitz Wetzler Elmar - C 1/4 90 on the camera this morning. Just testing the 'new' old lenses but will get around to a shootout between the four 90mm lenses that I now have and maybe throw in some 75mm, 85mm and 105mm for fun. Need to get out and find something interesting to shoot ;) . Just starting to play with adapted lenses with the EM1, should be fun.

Give it time, more and more folk are starting to enjoy finding and using older lenses. I do not know the answers to many of the questions but learning a lot.

Many thanks for bringing the Forum into existence (or at least being the impetus behind it :) ).

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I'm still here, thanks again Tom.
 
I've posted less lately than I did at the beginning. It's not because I'm less interested, but I try to refrain from posting unless it seems I might have something of value to offer. I'll post some pictures now and then, but I really don't have a lot of experience or expertise. Thanks again for getting & keeping this going.
 
I'm busy hibernating, but I awake each day to open up DPR and this forum is either first or second to be scanned........"third party lens talk" is the other one.

There's always something of interest and I usually continue by investigating it on the Interweb or at the library. Retirement can be fun.

Thanks Tom.

Regards,

Bob
 
I think that this Forum is developing into a really interesting and cohesive community. Its so refreshing to engage in a Forum where people arent constantly bragging/bitching about their latest (and often I believe imaginary) purchases or complaining about the lack of f0.9 20 - 800mm zooms.

Well done and thanks for your initiative Tom !

Robert
 
Robert Tolputt said:
I think that this Forum is developing into a really interesting and cohesive community. Its so refreshing to engage in a Forum where people arent constantly bragging/bitching about their latest (and often I believe imaginary) purchases or complaining about the lack of f0.9 20 - 800mm zooms.

Well done and thanks for your initiative Tom !

Robert
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Absolutely!

It is indeed refreshing to visit a forum devoid of back-biting, nit-picking and often aggressive responses to any question or opinion that doesn't conform ((I'm thinking Sony APSC forum there, in case you couldn't guess ;-) ) and where a participants choice of 'not the latest and greatest' camera doesn't invite ridicule and derision by anyone. I hope this harmonious attitude continues...

Can't believe it's been 3 months already - time really does fly when you're having fun :-)
 
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The Drongo exists in Australia and can be identified by its unusual tail feathers when perched. Not that common and I have been unable to catch one in a photograph. It is also Australian derogatory slang for a no-hoper. I am not sure how this bird name ended up better known for its slang connotations than for its actual bird type designation. But it seems that Australian slang "likes" bird varieties - a "Silly Galah" is more a reproof for a childish mistake and "Cockatoo" was the guy that kept a lookout for police when an illegal two-up gambling game was being held. The abbreviation "Cow Cockie", or plain "Cockie", is used for famers as when they were at the saleyards they tended to hang around in groups and squawk among themselves. For some reason it seems associated with the Sulpher-crested Cockatoo. And of course "Budgie Smugglers" are the scanty male swimming costume once beloved of a certain now ex-Prime Minister.
 
SimonOL said:
Robert Tolputt said:
I think that this Forum is developing into a really interesting and cohesive community. Its so refreshing to engage in a Forum where people arent constantly bragging/bitching about their latest (and often I believe imaginary) purchases or complaining about the lack of f0.9 20 - 800mm zooms.

Well done and thanks for your initiative Tom !

Robert
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Absolutely!

It is indeed refreshing to visit a forum devoid of back-biting, nit-picking and often aggressive responses to any question or opinion that doesn't conform ((I'm thinking Sony APSC forum there, in case you couldn't guess ;-) ) and where a participants choice of 'not the latest and greatest' camera doesn't invite ridicule and derision by anyone. I hope this harmonious attitude continues...

Can't believe it's been 3 months already - time really does fly when you're having fun :-)
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Thanks everyone, I was not loooking for appreciation - just checking that the pulse was still strong .... ;)
 
"The Drongo exists in Australia and can be identified by its unusual tail feathers when perched. Not that common and I have been unable to catch one in a photograph. It is also Australian derogatory slang for a no-hoper."

So thats where it comes from, I have the habit of calling my students Drongos (in a friendly kind of banter way - or so they think), without knowing its origin.

Must dig out my Les Patterson "Lets Talk Strine" and brush up my insults........:-P
 
Robert Tolputt said:
"The Drongo exists in Australia and can be identified by its unusual tail feathers when perched. Not that common and I have been unable to catch one in a photograph. It is also Australian derogatory slang for a no-hoper."

So thats where it comes from, I have the habit of calling my students Drongos (in a friendly kind of banter way - or so they think), without knowing its origin.

Must dig out my Les Patterson "Lets Talk Strine" and brush up my insults........:-P
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I think that its full name is "Spangled Drongo" - look it up on the web. It seems a fairly solitary bird and its longish tail feathers curl distinctively outwards at the tip when it perches. It is quite black and hard to photograph as it usually is high up and in silhouette. A challenge for our birders ....

Let's see our Drongos ....

The slang may have come from India as I believe that the bird is quite common there. My bird-book says that it can be found down our East Coast becoming less common southwards.
 
Thanks, Tom, for starting this forum. It is one of two that I check two or three times a day, the other being the Fuji x forum.

This forum has kindled my interest in using old USSR lenses on my Fuji X-T1. In the short time the Adapted lens forum has been up and running I have purchased the following:

Helios 44-2, Helios 44M-4 (waiting to have the focus to infinity corrected), Helios 44M-7 (manufactured in 1995 and has 6 blades so hopefully not a fake), Jupiter 3 and 9. And waiting for me in my house in Scotland are the following: jupiter 8, Helios 77M-4 and an Industar 61 L/Z.

If success of a forum can be judged by the GAS it produces then this is a very successful forum 😉
 
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Thanks, Tom, for starting this forum. It is one of two that I check two or three times a day, the other being the Fuji x forum.

This forum has kindled my interest in using old USSR lenses on my Fuji X-T1. In the short time the Adapted lens forum has been up and running I have purchased the following:

Helios 44-2, Helios 44M-4 (waiting to have the focus to infinity corrected), Helios 44M-7 (manufactured in 1995 and has 6 blades so hopefully not a fake), Jupiter 3 and 9. And waiting for me in my house in Scotland are the following: jupiter 8, Helios 77M-4 and an Industar 61 L/Z.

If success of a forum can be judged by the GAS it produces then this is a very successful forum 😉
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Robert Tolputt said:
"The Drongo exists in Australia and can be identified by its unusual tail feathers when perched. Not that common and I have been unable to catch one in a photograph. It is also Australian derogatory slang for a no-hoper."

So thats where it comes from, I have the habit of calling my students Drongos (in a friendly kind of banter way - or so they think), without knowing its origin.

Must dig out my Les Patterson "Lets Talk Strine" and brush up my insults.
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Sir Les, Australia's foremost cultural ambassador, wasn't associated with Afferbeck Lauder, the esteemed author of Let Stalk Strine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afferbeck_Lauder

Drongo was the name of a notably unsuccessful race horse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drongo

I appreciated the forum. I think it has a place, and there's much fewer "adapter" threads over on APS-C Sony in the last few months.

Generally, adapter-guys aren't drongos.
 
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Kyogle said:
Thanks, Tom, for starting this forum. It is one of two that I check two or three times a day, the other being the Fuji x forum.

This forum has kindled my interest in using old USSR lenses on my Fuji X-T1. In the short time the Adapted lens forum has been up and running I have purchased the following:

Helios 44-2, Helios 44M-4 (waiting to have the focus to infinity corrected), Helios 44M-7 (manufactured in 1995 and has 6 blades so hopefully not a fake), Jupiter 3 and 9. And waiting for me in my house in Scotland are the following: jupiter 8, Helios 77M-4 and an Industar 61 L/Z.

If success of a forum can be judged by the GAS it produces then this is a very successful forum 😉

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Another man who spends time in the (Western) Highlands and Australia!

I was thinking the forum might generate its greatest interest when there are illustrations of lens testing. I'm guilty of not contributing many files as yet, but hope to add considerably more this year.

The "My Gallery" page does provide a place where I refer to images taken with adapted lenses; so far most have been with Voigtlander, Leitz and Industar(50) lenses. More to come with an Industar-61, soon, and new Heliar 15 and Color Skopar 21 glass.
 
I just recently found this forum. Having a Nex-5n and primarily legacy Minolta MC/MD lenses I was finding less and less interest in the the Sony APC forum. We no longer had anything in common and Sony seemed to be moving in a direction I couldn't go (eg. high-end). I still find a lot of value in legacy lenses and don't see a need to always be updating to the latest. I think the Adapted Lens Talk forum provides an excellent outlet to explore other directions.
 
Tom, I've enjoyed it so far but I think quite early on it was clear that were at least two major interest groups here: those whose main interest was in getting modern AF lenses to work in a comparable way on their camera with an adapter; and those, who like me, have been looking to use "legacy" manual focus lenses on modern digital cameras, which necessarily involves some sort of adapter. People can clearly have a foot in both those camps.....

I think this forum will actually be better suited in the long term to people of the first persuasion? I've learned quite a lot about my own interest area on here, but I don't think it's really fulfilled any sort of need. I've been/am a member of I don't know how many fora about legacy manual focus lenses. There's loads of them, and they're usually very good - and equally, wonderfully, non confrontational.

If this Adapted Lens Talk forum were to be split between people looking to use their modern lenses from one marque on another marque's body; and a "how does this old lens perform" section, I would never visit the former but would be a daily checker of the latter.
 
John Michael Winterbourne said:
Tom, I've enjoyed it so far but I think quite early on it was clear that were at least two major interest groups here: those whose main interest was in getting modern AF lenses to work in a comparable way on their camera with an adapter; and those, who like me, have been looking to use "legacy" manual focus lenses on modern digital cameras, which necessarily involves some sort of adapter. People can clearly have a foot in both those camps.....

I think this forum will actually be better suited in the long term to people of the first persuasion?
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I'm not convinced - if anything (and it might well just reflect my interests) I'd say that this forum serves those of us who looking at legacy non-AF glass rather better.

I've not really bothered trying to use any of my former-SLR AF lenses on the A6000 I have. Can't really see the point the point when I can buy current AF lenses which fully utilise both mount and camera body capabilities. For sure though there is a cost issue in replacing a lens one might have rather than using an adapter.

For me it's all about the fun of re-discovering how I learnt photography in the first place, finding new (old) interesting lenses and a bit of bargain hunting...
 
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