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Maybe top three...
Anything manual focus, designed for analogue SLR.How old is vintage?
So what would be your pick if the minoltas? If you had to choose?It's difficult the choose.
Minolta Rokkor 55mm f1.7 MC because of the build, it's just about perfect IMO.
Olympys Zuiko 50mm f1.8 because it looks fantastic and is very compact but a bit clunky in use though.
Minolta Rokkor 50mmf1.2, funky at wide apertures with an unfriendly composition but stopped down a bit it's gorgeous. I often think that stopped down falloff is overlooked.
Nippon Kogaku 50mm f1.4 and f2. These are built just lovely but maybe a bit big.
Minolta Rokkor 50mm f1.4 and f1.7 MD because they're quire compact and just get on with it.
Technically that rules out most of my favourites, rangefinder lenses like the Leitz Elmar f/3.5, designed before a practical 35mm SLR even existed, or their surprisingly sharp Summitar f/2, first made in 1939 (though mine is later and coated), or the faster Summilux f/1.4, a 60s lens that Leica kept in the catalogue with only cosmetic changes and didn't better for over 40 years. My favourite SLR 50 is the Zeiss f/1.7 for Contax/Yashica (once the yardstick for resolution that UK magazine Camera Weekly used to compare every other lens with, and a noticeable step up from anything I'd used before). No complaints about the Nikon f/1.4 AF-D, either.Anything manual focus, designed for analogue SLR.
Ok, we'll include rangefinder lenses tooTechnically that rules out most of my favourites, rangefinder lenses like the Leitz Elmar f/3.5, designed before a practical 35mm SLR even existed, or their surprisingly sharp Summitar f/2, first made in 1939 (though mine is later and coated), or the faster Summilux f/1.4, a 60s lens that Leica kept in the catalogue with only cosmetic changes and didn't better for over 40 years. My favourite SLR 50 is the Zeiss f/1.7 for Contax/Yashica (once the yardstick for resolution that UK magazine Camera Weekly used to compare every other lens with, and a noticeable step up from anything I'd used before). No complaints about the Nikon f/1.4 AF-D, either.
So what would be your pick if the minoltas? If you had to choose?
Any adapter recommendations? This looks like it wouldn’t do the job...
So it’s just occurred to me (don’t now why it didn’t before) that I’ve got three Pentax k-mount lenses: 28mm 2.8 SMC-A, 50mm 1.7 SMC-M and 75-150mm f/4 SMC-M. They pretty much cover the focal lengths I was looking for too!
has anyone had any experience with this combo? Any adapter recommendations? This looks like it wouldn’t do the job...https://www.kentfaith.co.uk/KF06.311_pentax-k-m-a-fa-da-lenses-to-fuji-x-mount-camera-adapter?gclid=CjwKCAjw6fCCBhBNEiwAem5SO-LC7oR5BawGhcxZXL_cOXz9O39w1SB1d68K0J7Ycc1RrTv_RULt0RoCSc4QAvD_BwE
Really enjoying the 50mm 1.7 - never used old lenses on mirrorless bodies before but it’s good funLooks good Tom. You'll enjoy that.
Really enjoying the 50mm 1.7 - never used old lenses on mirrorless bodies before but it’s good fun
Ah, good advice! I didn’t know that.It is. Pentax is a good place to start as well. The one thing I might say is that if you are using that 70 - 150 lens of yours is you will have to watch out for the IBIS on your camera. You will get varying results dependent on whatever focal length you have set your camera too. The IBIS relies on knowing so that it can properly adjust for your focal length. You'll be right as ninepence with primes though.
Does it seem a bit weird to you that there are only a handful of options for focal lengths and only two customisable slots. Luckily I’ve only got 3 manual primes and one of them (28mm) is one of the defaults.It is. Pentax is a good place to start as well. The one thing I might say is that if you are using that 70 - 150 lens of yours is you will have to watch out for the IBIS on your camera. You will get varying results dependent on whatever focal length you have set your camera too. The IBIS relies on knowing so that it can properly adjust for your focal length. You'll be right as ninepence with primes though.