Vintage Glass: Anyone have experience with vintage glass for use on the Sony or Olympus mirror less cameras? If so any favorites? I just purchased a Takumar 50 mm f 1.4 lens from Ebay...

suntouched Loc: Sierra Vista AZ

Anyone have experience with vintage glass for use on the Sony or Olympus mirror less cameras? If so any favorites? I just purchased a Takumar 50 mm f 1.4 lens from Ebay but before I do anymore buying I would like feedback from those who know. Thanks

wingclui44 Loc: CT USA

suntouched wrote:

Anyone have experience with vintage glass for use on the Sony or Olympus mirror less cameras? If so any favorites? I just purchased a Takumar 50 mm f 1.4 lens from Ebay but before I do anymore buying I would like feedback from those who know. Thanks

Hi! I am mainly a Nikon DSLR user, but I purchased a Olympus M4/3 body only few years ago just for experiencing this new system. I used different type of adapters to use my collection of lenses, they are all MF lenses. My favorite one is the Olympus Pen-F H. Zuiko 42mm f1.2. It's very sharp and bright, I use it for portrait. This was a gift to me from my co-worker when he retired years ago.The next one is a Fujinon-TV 35mm f1.7 C-mount video camera lens, great color reproduction. I also have a KERN-SWITAR 16MM F1.8 Video lens.
These are my favorites. I also have a couple Minolta MD lenses plus several Vivitar lenses with different mounts. Of-course I can use all my lenses from my Nikon system on this Olympus. It's fun!

suntouched Loc: Sierra Vista AZ

Thanks so much for the information!

JimH123 Loc: Morgan Hill, CA

suntouched wrote:

Anyone have experience with vintage glass for use on the Sony or Olympus mirror less cameras? If so any favorites? I just purchased a Takumar 50 mm f 1.4 lens from Ebay but before I do anymore buying I would like feedback from those who know. Thanks

I have many Minolta AF lenses and a number of manual focus M42 type lenses. They all work fine on my Sony A6000 with adapters. I use the Sony LA-EA4 for the Minolta lenses and they focus accurately and quickly. I use a simple $11 adapter for the M42. The work well too.

Just watch out for CA distortion on the older glass. When you have spots with high contrast is it likely to happen, especially when shooting wide open.

More modern lenses tend to not have as much of a problem with this.

suntouched Loc: Sierra Vista AZ

Great Information- thanks!

wingclui44 Loc: CT USA

suntouched wrote:

Thanks so much for the information!

One thing I forgot to mention is the vantage Kern Swistar 16mm Video camera lens will create vignetting on the M4/3 sensor, you may need a 25mm or more for this type of Swister lenses.They are great small lenses made by Switzerland. When I use my 16mm, I will crop the corner to correct the vignetting.

suntouched Loc: Sierra Vista AZ

I will keep that in mind :)

n3eg Loc: West coast USA

I use adapted MF lenses on my E-PL5. I get great results even wide open. Corner sharpness is not a problem, since you're not using the corners! A 50mm f/1.4 is a great place to start.

I also have a 500mm f/8 Kalimar which I used to shoot Mt. Rainier in Washington from a hill in Oregon - handheld!

suntouched Loc: Sierra Vista AZ

I'm looking forward to the 50 mm 1.4 pentax lens that I bought. Have you tried any of the vintage Russian lenses? Jupiter or ...

suntouched Loc: Sierra Vista AZ

Or Helios, or MIR- although they seem to have some type of inherent flaw in the manufacturing process from what I've read, the results on Flickr from these lenses are quite lovely.

ralphc4176 Loc: Conyers, GA

You can get adaptors to put some different lenses (like Minolta/Sony A-frame) on Sony's newest mirrorless cameras (E-frame). You won't have auto focus, but you can get some good vintage glass for a relatively low price compared with E-frame autofocus lenses. When I buy a used lens, I always use KEH Camera (www.KEH.com). Before you buy any vintage glass for an E-frame camera, make sure there is an adaptor available for that lens.

suntouched Loc: Sierra Vista AZ

Good point. I will check out KEH. Thanks

agillot

check fotodiox for adapter , they make one for almost anything and work fine [ $ 45 ]

tejaswrangler Loc: South Texas

suntouched wrote:

Anyone have experience with vintage glass for use on the Sony or Olympus mirror less cameras? If so any favorites? I just purchased a Takumar 50 mm f 1.4 lens from Ebay but before I do anymore buying I would like feedback from those who know. Thanks

Hello Suntouched, I have a Sony NEX-6 camera and have had excellent results using vintage Minolta MC and MD lenses. These lenses are manual operated. You can purchase an adapter on eBay or from some of the camera stores advertising on this Forum.

I have also used a vintage Sigma lens with good results.

I think you will have fun using vintage lenses, and save some money too. I hope this information is of some use for you. Tejaswrangler :)

bull drink water Loc: pontiac mi.

i'm a sony alpha man and I use Minolta maxxum lenses all the time. I also use the better canon fd lenses with a $40.00 adapter. my results have been fantastic. with the fd lenses it's manual all the way but I pretend it's 1955 have at it. setting the right shutter speed is a snap.