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Samsung NX and manual lenses - don't match

Started Jun 30, 2020 | Discussions thread
armin304 Contributing Member • Posts: 740
Re: Samsung NX and manual lenses - don't match

Pablo 1979 wrote:

Unfortunately non of the above hepled.

Neither NX300M nor NX30 have magnification with manual lenses:

- 2 different adapters

- MF switched of before attaching manual lens

OK button isn't responding, no magnification, no focus peaking.

I think you have adapters, that will work well with the older NX10/20/100. With later models, Samsung changed to tighter tolerances for the little switch in the mount, which tells the camera that a lens is mounted. Of my old adapters, bought for the NX10, some work with the NX30, some don't. If you look through the threads here in the Samsung Talk forum, you will find some posts, where the adapters were modified, to actuate the switch of the newer cameras. I never tried it myself,  I just took part in the adapter lottery with another cheap adapter from China and got myself a Sony A7 II for my manual lenses, when it became available. Not that there was no lottery with adapters too, since the A7 II got a more sturdy mount than the previous NEX and A7 models, one of the adapters I got for the Sony did not fit at all. Unfortunately the NX series is dead, so you will have to take what's still available.

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