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Lens advice please for new convert coming from DSLR

Started Mar 6, 2016 | Discussions thread
Shawn67 Senior Member • Posts: 2,310
Re: Lens advice please for new convert coming from DSLR

"I know I won't get much for some of my lenses, especially the Minolta ones. Should I spend the money for an adapter so I can use some of them even though they will be mannual focus?"

If there are adapters available that will let you use those lenses I would certainly consider it. In my case I had good Nikon glass and the adapters are very inexpensive, less than $15 for a glassless adapter. With those the crop factor applies so the FOV does change. I tended to use these for my telephoto lenses. Using adapted lenses like this opens up a huge number of great lenses that can be had cheap.

There are also adapters like the Speedbooster and Lens Turbo II. They act like a reverse teleconverter. The FOV is roughly the same as FF but with more light as it is concentrated on the APS-C sensor. I just ordered one and should have it in a few weeks.

Shawn

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