I used to have one foot in Canon, and had some nice Canon glass to fool with. Running the cheap Fotosay adapter was a joy.
I learned the trick to setting the aperture BEFORE you removed a Canon lens from a Canon body... I would pre-set a couple lenses in this fashion, and stick them in the camera bag.
Fun to make a day of "adapted shooting", and see what you get later on when you get home. Certainly not an exact science, a lot of hit or miss to be sure.
I don't have any of these wonderful Canon lenses any longer... but they were GREAT on a XE-1.
Canon's old 17-40L was kind of a 'meh' lens on CANON BODIES. Hang it on a FUJI sensored body, and it's wondrous landscape lens when shot slow.
It was the perfect balance and feel on an XE-1 or XPro1, although I only used it from a tripod.
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Canon's great, compact + fast 85mm was also great on a Fuji body. But admittedly, often hard to snag the correct focus when hand-held.
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Lastly, it's funny how sometimes the cheapest alternative can deliver the finest (or easiest) results.
Canon's cheap, nasty plastic "nifty fifty".
Again, I would preset the aperture on a Canon body and go have fun.
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The little 50mm's are most exciting when shot "fast" anyway. I parked it on F/1.8 and left it there.
From a day trip, I took some pot shots at a friend's Harley with the adapted cheap plastic Canon 50.
He loved the image.
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~ thanks for looking!
paul