Adapted Adapted lenses, any make, for any camera

[Lawrence A.]

I haven't seen a general thread for any adapted lens. Here are a couple of things shot with the Sony a7ii using an old Zuiko 75-150 f4 (one of my favorite zooms for decades), with which the river stone with fossilized ferns was shot, and the Konica Hexanon 40mm f1.8, which has become the standard lens for the Sony, which I got mostly to use with my old 35mm glass.

 

[Bobby T]

Fuji X-A1 with Canon FD 28mm F2

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[Brian]

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Nikon Df with Kodak Retina Schneider Xenon 50mm F1.9. This lens came with a Kodak Instamatic Reflex for $20.

 

[Lawrence A.]

It's nice to see the older glass getting some use. I'm relishing the experience of focusing manually, as I did until digital came along.

 

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The 'Beach Cams' up on the Jack's Surfboards building down at the beach in Huntington Beach.
Sony A7ii w/Canon 35mm 2.8 LTM.

 

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Sony A7ii w/Canon 35mm 2.8 LTM

 

[rayvonn]

This Takumar 200mm F4 generally sits in the corner unused minding it's own business but is good fun for strolling purposes.

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Playing with the Nikkor 24mm 2.8 on the A7iii. Santa's have invaded the kitchen, Christmas must be getting closer....

 

[Lawrence A.]

All shot with the Olympus Zuiko100mm f2.8, the MC version, still rather a low contrast lens, but it was probably designed for portraiture. Upping contrast and deepening the D-max is easy enough to do out of the camera. All from jpegs.

 

[Lawrence A.]

Sony a7ii and a Leica thread mount Summicron, f2 from 1952. Processed in Lightroom with final color and sharpening adjustments in Photoshop.

 

[Lawrence A.]

A couple more with the 1952 collapsible Summicron 50mm on the Sony. It's a fun combination. I can use the files I get, and it is a blast to shoot with.

 

[Bobby T]

Helios 44-2 58mm f2

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[mike3996]

Pentax F 50/1.7 smc

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[Lawrence A.]

And again with the 1952 collapsible Summicron 50mm f2 on the Sony a7II. I fooled around with a 90 Elmar f4 from 1949 too. It's still a perfectly useable lens, but I didn't compose anything I liked, maybe later.

 

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A quicky floor blanket as seen by the Sony and Nikkor 24.

 

[dougpayne]

Another image taken with the Minolta MD 135mm adapted to my Canon 6D. The adapter provides a focusing range from about 3.5-12 feet.

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Nikkor 50 1.2 adapted to Sony A7ii as seen by Sony A9 w/Minolta 58mm 1.4 @f2.8/4.0

 

[rloewy]

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Nikkor P 105mm 2.5 on my Olympus E-PL7

 

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Minolta MC Rokkor-QF 200mm 3.5 @f=5.6

 

[Lawrence A.]

It's great to see some of these classic lenses being used on digital cameras. I confess my parameters for contrast, and sharpening are different for a lens for 1952 than they are for a lens make last year., but the old Summicron, for instance, resolves a lot of detail, even if contrast, local contrast in particular, is less. I would have tweaked those chemically in the old days, so I find no problem tweaking them with a contrast mask in Photoshop, which I prefer to turning up the contrast too high in camera. Thanks for all the fine images demonstrating the strengths of these older pieces of glass.