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With the adaptor - I assume its the lenses that are wider (radius in mm) that work better?
Just thinking that the smaller lenses will not be worth keeping on it - eg voigtlanders and lomography.
But the R lens / m42 might be wide enough to be used...
Many lenses 'work' but they can have hard or soft vignetting. You also have to remember that those full frame lenses that do cover the GFX sensor are operating outside their initial design criteria, and so distortion/bokeh can get a bit unruly. Also some technically can't resolve the pixel density of a high resolution sensor but they can make up for this with some lovely colour rendering.
I have experimented with a number of 'legacy' lenses (posted images in this thread), but to me they all have a certain novelty value and unless I want some specific I always come back to native GFX glass.
I'm also fairly certain that the current promotion on the GFX50SII and GFX100S are because these models are about to be replaced, there are a lot of rumours of a replacement GFX100S II but it looks very unlikely that there will be a replacement for the 50MP variant. This isn't to say that they are a bad buy, its more of facilitating awareness!
Something else to note is that the field of view can be very different with a 4:3 sensor to a 3:2 sensor, I shoot quite a bit in vertical format and crop to 5:4, My Leica Q3 on a 3:2 sensor had the same angle of field of view as my GFX c/w GF45mm lens (28mm 3:2 v 45mm GFX 4:3). So you may want to think about lens focal lengths depoending on how you shoot.
The are lists around it’s not a simple thing. For example the canon 40mm f2.8 pancake works remarkably well.
This is true and it works well, and a very cost effective pancake solution, even if a decent AF adapter costs quite a bit more than the lens!
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