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It would be a waste of time. New lenses have more optical elements, which is why manufacturers will do anything to lower internal reflections.

I was writing about non ai lenses and not the DF. The DF is a reasonably well built camera but for the price it should have been better built (ex. the rubber which easily peels off). As for the ...

They not only look good but are very well built.

I use the pre-ai 50mm f2 on mine and it performs really well and looks the part for sure.

Yet so many thought it was ugly when it first came out.

The Df seems to handle older lenses very well; probably because of the low pixel count. I use the 50mm f1.2 ais (as well as many other old lenses) on mine and it performs very well.

I don't think that you will get that 'dreamy look' from this lens. I have one and it's still too sharp wide open for that kind of look. If you want a dreamy look try the Canon fd 55mm f1.2.

Yes, but will you notice a difference in real life situations?

I  am not sure that this will help, but you can set your lenses in between f stops if you want. Just set the aperture between two stops. I use my non ai or ai lenses in following manner: I set my ...

Looks nice! If you had posted this in 2013 -14 when I first purchased my DF you would have been called a hipster, idiot and everything else that you can imagine. All the snobs on this site could ...

You can try using a soft focus filter but I really don't think that you will get the same effects. The Lensbaby velvet (I have the the 56mm) has a special rendering  which varies a lot with the ...

I would not worry about this. I have over 70 old lenses and many have specks or very faint dead fungus spots. That small spot on your lens will not have any impact on your pictures. Just keep it dry.

Mathieu, I would never shoot any lens no matter it's optical quality, at f1.8 at infinity. We usually use fully opened apertures for closer shots to get some of the bokeh that faster lenses ...

I don't know of any lenses that are meant to be used for landscape shots such as the one's you are showing, at f1.8. Why would anyone expect a lens to perform better than this at f1.8 for ...

I use my EM-10 with some of my four third lenses and the Panasonic four thirds to micro four thirds adapter (same as the Olympus one but cheaper). It works fine auto focus is fast enough for my ...

No it's not. It's still a 50mm lens but on a smaller four thirds sensor it behaves like a 100 on a full frame sensor (field of view). Four thirds sensor is half (diagonally) the size of a full ...

AI manual lenses should work just like  AI lenses work on my Sony A7ii with an aftermarket adapter. An aftermarket adapter (without any electronics) will simply act as an extension tube allowing ...