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A m4/3 owner ready to buy the fuji s5 pro for playing around?

Started Oct 22, 2017 | Discussions thread
John Michael Winterbourne
John Michael Winterbourne Veteran Member • Posts: 3,174
Re: A m4/3 owner ready to buy the fuji s5 pro for playing around?

Be aware that your Helios lens is M42 mount and you won't be able to get infinity focus with it on the S5 pro unless you buy an adapter with an optical correction lens - basically a simple x1.1 teleconverter.  It will affect IQ (mostly by lowering contrast) but the good ones aren't too bad.  There are a lot of good legacy lenses - including Nikon MF lenses of course - but others such as Sigma's Super-wide II 24 f/2.8 are popular and cheap that you could use with either a plain adapter or a focal reducer.

I had that 28-200 3.5-5.6 lens (or another one like it, there were a couple of versions I think) that I used quite happily for a long time on my D700 as my "walkaround" lens.  The worst thing about it was heavy barrel distortion at the longer end, but Photoshop has the lens profile built in and it was easily fixed in PP.

I think you could be in for a lot of fun!

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