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

Started Oct 22, 2017 | Discussions thread
A_SCY
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Re: A m4/3 owner ready to buy the fuji s5 pro for playing around?

John Michael Winterbourne wrote:

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!

hello thank you for the answer. i am not fan of the vintage lens. helios is sitting in my room with m42 to m43 adapter ( to use in olympus) in case i want to play.

About the fuji if i am right i have the same 28-200 lens right now and i dont know why i am not happy with the quality of the lens and the camera regarding image quality. images are soft and lucks this energy. please check i post some images here and tell me what you think.

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Fujifilm FinePix S5 Pro Nikon D700 Olympus OM-D E-M10 Olympus OM-D E-M10 II Panasonic Lumix G 20mm F1.7 ASPH +9 more
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