[ Help ] Canon Lens adapter for olympus M43.

[george671]

Why put an old lens (especially one made for film) on a newer sensor?

Not sure where your going with this, but 90 per cent of the manual lenses today came from the film era and pretty much they all work quite well with digital sensor camera's...I have yet to find any lense that does not work properly and give beautiful results on my Oly's Nikons, Fuji's, or the 5D... Care to show us one lense that has given you a problem image wise??? The only one that I am aware of currently is the cosina Voigtleander 12mm on some M9's, ( and I have not tried it myself).... And I am not knocking the modern lenses...Some of the new ones look really great and I want..want..want!!!

cheers

 

[eleveninth]

Why put an old lens (especially one made for film) on a newer sensor?

I take it you havent used any old mf lens b4

 

[bousozoku]

I take it you havent used any old mf lens b4

I used plenty of manual focus lenses in the past, but they weren't old at the time.

Even the best of them I wouldn't want to use on a current camera body. I liked Nikon's D40 for eschewing the in-body focusing motor for forcing people to use newer lenses instead of old rubbish.

 

[cannedpineapples]

Whether to shoot AF or legacy MF is, of course, your preference.

It is my personal experience though that manual lenses can add a certain character to the images I take. I don't really care about 'life-like', so more options in terms of color, tone, sharpness and bokeh rendering is always welcome in my dry cabinet.

YMMV!