petrochemist
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What proportion of your shots are taken with adapted lenses?
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petrochemist
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Personally I go through spates of using adapted lenses so it varies hugely.
I take a ridiculous number of photos at events like airshows (4000/day is not unknown) which are practically all with native lenses, some months I will be around 50% adapted & there have certainly been weeks where it's all adapted.
I take a ridiculous number of photos at events like airshows (4000/day is not unknown) which are practically all with native lenses, some months I will be around 50% adapted & there have certainly been weeks where it's all adapted.
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Mathieu18
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About 6 months ago I stopped shooting for hire and sold all of my native lenses. Occasionally think about getting one for when I need reliable AF, but usually blow the budget on something adapted...
A fairly simple poll to add to the current collection & help us build up a picture of the membership
I have 3 AF-lenses. One wide is use as part of my walkaround kit while travelling, 1 fast 35mm ff-equivalent for friends&family special occasions, and the kit zoom that I rarely use (too bulky, and slow aperture)
Everything else is shot with adapted lenses.
Everything else is shot with adapted lenses.
Rol Lei Nut
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50% is a sort of dividing line - sometimes less than 50%, sometimes more than 50%. Overall (maybe) 50%. But just a whisker over 50% tips me into the up to 90% class - I am far off 90% but 50-90% is about as close that I cna fit into the poll. “Heavy user” of adapted lenses mainly. But many of these adapted lenses are in fact under full oem AF, etc control via electronic adapters. So that is an issue in itself.
AudiiDudii
Leading Member
My answer is "All of them," because I need rise / fall / shift movements for the type of photography I do and as a former view camea user, I prefer to make those movements on the rear of the camera, not the front, which rules out most factory-made shift lenses.
Plus, I have a thing for the Zeiss look, so have come to love -- and more importantly, own -- a small collection of their lenses, ranging from now-vintage C/Y lenses to Contax N and Contax 645 lenses, and it's nice to be able to use them all on the same camera body.
Plus, I have a thing for the Zeiss look, so have come to love -- and more importantly, own -- a small collection of their lenses, ranging from now-vintage C/Y lenses to Contax N and Contax 645 lenses, and it's nice to be able to use them all on the same camera body.
I was asleep for 35 years, woke up and found these new fangle dangle cameras with digits and strange stuff inside, something called a .... menu with no decent burgers or steak in it.
So just got this thing that mounted onto the menu body and took all my old lenses.
Did I miss something somewhere ?? It works just fine. Do I need something else nowadays. Strange.
Danny. Typed on my 286 using DOS.
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So just got this thing that mounted onto the menu body and took all my old lenses.
Did I miss something somewhere ?? It works just fine. Do I need something else nowadays. Strange.
Danny. Typed on my 286 using DOS.
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Worry about the image that comes out of the box rather than the box itself
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Birds and BIF's ..... https://www.flickr.com/photos/124733969@N06/sets/
The need for speed ..... https://www.flickr.com/photos/130646821@N03/albums
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Mathieu18
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As long as I could play worms and gorillas I was good to go.
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Mathieu18
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I remember the first WD upgrade drive my dad tried. I think it was a 25Meg drive. Took him a couple days to get the jumpers right and the drivers set. Then there was the Pentium Release. Was it really an x586? Or something different? Not upset those days are gone. Modern cameras have more horsepower than those did.
Well we are taking 24 meg shots here on the Sony, so I could fit half an image on my first hard drive, in fact less than half a shot
286 it was. Then there was the "micro bee" or something and that had a strange operating system, but with faster graphics redrawing.I had one IBM drive die and the replacement was something like an 80 meg drive for $850 NZ, would have been around $1400 - $1500 US at the time. Around 1980 - 1982. It went in the bin ;-)
Ahh the good old days ........ I'm not going back !!!
Danny.
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I don't have an accurate gauge of this but ticked between 10% and 50%. I'm a Fuji user and use Fuji glass for general photography because Fuji has an excellent lens range for a wide variety of uses. But there are gaps, and if my subjects require specialist lenses it's a different matter. Eg I use adapted glass for all TS and long tele shots. And perhaps half of my macro shots. It just depends on what I'm shooting.
Cheers, Rod
I don't have an accurate gauge of this but ticked between 10% and 50%. I'm a Fuji user and use Fuji glass for general photography because Fuji has an excellent lens range for a wide variety of uses. But there are gaps, and if my subjects require specialist lenses it's a different matter. Eg I use adapted glass for all TS and long tele shots. And perhaps half of my macro shots. It just depends on what I'm shooting.
Cheers, Rod
Acorn BBC Micro, I had some courses on that machine (including BBC Basic, the best) before I bought its successor the Archimedes. Went for the 40 MB harddrive instead of the normal 20MB. Used Acorn Risc Os machines from 1989 to roughly 2000, way more affordable than Macs then and rightly mentioned the graphic side was ahead of most systems, including its sub pixel, anti-aliased vectors + fonts. On the attic for about 15 years now, the wide format inkjet printers I have did not get the Risc Os drivers needed. Acorn was sold, however the ARM processors, that came from that stable too, drive more or less everything in this world including your cameras.Well we are taking 24 meg shots here on the Sony, so I could fit half an image on my first hard drive, in fact less than half a shot
I had one IBM drive die and the replacement was something like an 80 meg drive for $850 NZ, would have been around $1400 - $1500 US at the time. Around 1980 - 1982. It went in the bin ;-)
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James_UK
Well-known member
Easily over 90%.
I have around 20 vintage lenses mainly minolta and m42, plus some Nikkor, prackticar and olympus, all of which which I share with my film cameras.
I have just 3 Fujifilm lenses xf27mm, xc16-50mm and just last week got an xf35mm F1.4 along with an X-T1 body to go with my battered and bruised X-T10. Sold an xc50-230mm last week too.
Only really need an Olympus 35mm to share with my OM2n then I should be content.
I have around 20 vintage lenses mainly minolta and m42, plus some Nikkor, prackticar and olympus, all of which which I share with my film cameras.
I have just 3 Fujifilm lenses xf27mm, xc16-50mm and just last week got an xf35mm F1.4 along with an X-T1 body to go with my battered and bruised X-T10. Sold an xc50-230mm last week too.
Only really need an Olympus 35mm to share with my OM2n then I should be content.
kickoff3pm
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If I stuck to the two modern lenses I have I would get bored and my kit would end up in the same place as the golf clubs, the snooker cue, the darts, the fishing tackle, record collection and the fish tankA fairly simple poll to add to the current collection & help us build up a picture of the membership
That and the fact I'm a poor as church mouse because of buying all that stuff I don't use
sportyaccordy
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It has dropped recently since I got the Rokinon 50 and FE 85 1.8. But those are my first native lenses after about 2 dozen adapted ones. I actually just sent away a box of lenses to KEH.... a lot of MC/MD stuff and some old EF glass. Going forward I think my only adapted lenses will be the Samyang 14 and 24-105 STM. With Samyang and possibly Sigma next year I'll be able to close my 35-50-85 loop with a native offering. Only other adapted lens I'd consider is a kit grade tele lens, but that will depend on the A7III coming out and having good AF-C performance with adapted glass... or Sony getting off its seat and making something like the old 75-300 with an SSM motor.
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widgetbox
Leading Member
Depends what I'm doing and who I'm doing it with. I rather like my recent Fuji X100T for family events. When I'm on my own I really only use my adapted lenses. Both experiences feed my need for novelty.
And in other news first PC was a BBC Micro - went online for the first time in 1984 and can still remember using CorelDraw when you had to work in wireframe mode and only render when you needed too...
And in other news first PC was a BBC Micro - went online for the first time in 1984 and can still remember using CorelDraw when you had to work in wireframe mode and only render when you needed too...
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