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First of all thanks to the forum in general for the overwhelming response. I'm sensing that each person has their own preference and I need to really find mine.
Good question. Basically I was asking from a stand point of almost complete ignorance that googling suggestions in this thread has helped start putting to rights. I'll show you an example.
I went to the shop this morning to buy a bar of chocolate and next door to that shop is a "flohmarkt" shop (fleamarket) which people give junk away to and I assume the money goes to charity. I nipped in for 5 minutes and had a bit of a browse and came away with this.
Now I have no idea if I will buy a camera that I can fit an adaptor to that mill make this lens work but as it cost the same amount as the delicious bar of honey, salt and almond chocolate that its photographed with I figured why not take a gamble. Basically what I was thinking was if I could get myself a nice camera, say a DSLR, which at the same time as having proper modern lenses for I can also strap on any old piece of junk I find with a suitable adaptor and see what happens then it would make the hobby that little bit more fun.
I do prefer Nikon, although I notice that if I want a model with a lens motor then I'm going to need go preowned as all the entry level models dont have one. Also is there not something about the nikon mount being further away than other cameras so an adaptor wouldn't work and focus properly?
You don't say what old lenses you've seen locally.
Some old lenses really aren't worth the hassle, but some are.
One other thought about older lenses. If you get a Sony with E-mount (a7/A5000/NEX) you can get an adaptor that will allow you to mount Sony/Minolta A-mount lenses on it. And there are a fair few of them (though I'm not sure if all of them will do auto-focus due to some needing a motor in the body).
And in the interests of fairness one should also mention that most old manual Nikon lenses can be mounted on modern Nikon DSLRs without an adaptor because Nikon haven't changed their basic mount.
Good question. Basically I was asking from a stand point of almost complete ignorance that googling suggestions in this thread has helped start putting to rights. I'll show you an example.
I went to the shop this morning to buy a bar of chocolate and next door to that shop is a "flohmarkt" shop (fleamarket) which people give junk away to and I assume the money goes to charity. I nipped in for 5 minutes and had a bit of a browse and came away with this.
Now I have no idea if I will buy a camera that I can fit an adaptor to that mill make this lens work but as it cost the same amount as the delicious bar of honey, salt and almond chocolate that its photographed with I figured why not take a gamble. Basically what I was thinking was if I could get myself a nice camera, say a DSLR, which at the same time as having proper modern lenses for I can also strap on any old piece of junk I find with a suitable adaptor and see what happens then it would make the hobby that little bit more fun.
Probably easies would to buy into the Nikon system. Get one of the models that has an inbuilt lens motor and you'll be able to used hundreds of old but still very good lenses with the need for adapters or a second thought.
Why? There are hundreds of cheap Nikn lenses out the and adapters for others?
I do prefer Nikon, although I notice that if I want a model with a lens motor then I'm going to need go preowned as all the entry level models dont have one. Also is there not something about the nikon mount being further away than other cameras so an adaptor wouldn't work and focus properly?