Canon 60D advice

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Bought a second 60D body purely to do my vintage lens shoots. I have most the simple thin adaptors I need but my first testing using manual didn't come out too well, should I just just AV or can you give me any advice on this please





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I think you need to give us more information. What lens and adapter are you using? What setting on camera are you using? What aperture value was the photo shot at? Does the camera expose correctly with native lenses? OVF or live view? You can go full manual, AV, TV with vintage lenses on the 60D.
 
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The best solution would be to shoot in live view, but that's not always ideal and will really kill your battery life. If you love using the viewfinder (I sure love using one, optical or electronic), using a different focusing screen can remedy some exposure errors while having the added benefit of potentially improving the manual focus experience. Those admittedly bulky LCD screen viewer/loupe thingies come in handy for live view or for mirrorless cameras that lack EVFs.

The EF-S focusing screen or a cut-to-size EC-A helped some 40/50/60D folks with exposure issues with adapted lenses in old DPR threads. For smaller apertures the EF-S screen is apparently much dimmer than the stock one, so keep that in mind as a potential downside for viewfinder usability.

If you only got overexposure errors while stopping down (which, according to the sample you provided, is not the case as you shot wide open), you could opt to shoot in manual mode, meter wide open, and do mental math on the fly to set the correct exposure at your desired aperture... which is also less than ideal.
 
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Have you tested this newly acquired 60D with native glass as well? If so, is metering much more accurate in that case?
 
I think I'm figuring it out, then LCD viewfinder hoods look an option for better focus even only because then I could use the magnification bottons. My Fuji does that though the viewfinder.

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