First forays into third party primes

OneLooseCrank wrote:

Hi all,

I've been shooting with an NX1000 for a good few years now... in fact probably since they were newly released; there was a 1/3rd rebate if you sent a copy of the receipt off and it came with a free Tab2, which I promptly sold for a third the camera's cost. So it's been pretty flippin' economical!

I've realised that I'm asking way too much of the two kit lenses that I have and I'm going to experiment with some third party primes. Firstly I'm after a nice fast portrait lens and later, something around the 100-150mm effective for some indoor sports shots.

I've been eyeing up either a Nikkor 35 f2.8 or a Nikkor 50 f1.8. The 35 is a Nikon S mount and the 50 an F mount. In researching I've come across two problems, I can't find an S-NX adaptor, and apparently there is a lens detection switch in the NX1000 which will require a 'card board mod'. I will probably be lens swapping a lot in future so, if there's a known adaptor that accommodates this lens switch I'll change my allegiance to a different system (which will require a couple of decent lenses fitting the aforementioned requirements!)

Any advice on adaptors and which legacy system to invest in?

Cheers,

OLC

K&F concept seem incredibly good, with that said, all my 6-12€ adapters works great too.

I use M42 (Russian and old Takumars) and Canon FD. I had most of theae lenses because I used to shoot with Canon AE-1, Pentax Spotmatic, and a build-like-a-tank Zenith camera, brought by my father for the then USSR. I have some other unique lenses (Minolta, Nikon etc) but mainly FD and M42.

If I started from scratch, I would do Nikon AI and AIS for sure, but I am happy with what I got, especially Zenith 58mm 2f, FD 50 1.4f and Takumar 55mm 1.8f, perfect portrait lenses for APS-C systems, but haven't used them for ages sunce acquiring the NX 45mm last year (which I was resisting for years, as I have half a dozen, or more, 50-58mm legacy lenses).

M42 and FD have myriad of lenses, and many many sold for very cheap if you search a bit. You can also search on street markets or shops with old stuff in your city.