Your favourite L-mount camera body for use with vintage manual focus lenses
Your favourite L-mount camera body for use with vintage manual focus lenses
5 months ago
The "Your favorite" series of threads now also include bodys, since no lens takes images without a camera body.
To avoid "brand wars" this thread is only for L-mount (Panasonic, Sigma & Leica mirrorless bodys with L-mount).
Similar threads focusing on each of the other brands have been launched, and the remaining will follow.
So, which L-mount (FF or crop) body do you think is the best for use with vintage manual focus lenses and why?
Bonus questions:
- What are the pros and cons of your favorite body?
- How do you manual focus with it (describe the process)?
- Does your favorite body have IBIS and how well does it work?
- Does your favorite body have a database function one can build up in the body that stamps the lens name into the Exif and sets the IBIS right (if it has IBIS)?
- Does your favorite body support adapted lenses in any other good way?
- Which MF adapter brand and type (tube type with or without optics) do you use with your favorite body?
- Which camera body from L-mount that you have tried, should be avoided for manual focus vintage lenses and why?
- Is there in your view a budget body from L-mount or manual focus vintage lenses that would be good for a beginner or someone with a lower budget and why?
Extra bonus questions:
- Since autofocus lenses have been around since the mid 80s and starts to become vintage as well: If you do use your camera body with adapted AF-glass, which AF-mount do you use it with and which adapter do you use? How do you think it works?
- Any other thing about your favorite L-mount body that is worth to mention?
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/Anders
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