TexRedNk wrote:
Thanks for your fast reply.
My quest is for what make cameras might fill
my needs. I do have or can find the adapters.
I will look at the two brands you mentioned.
Regards, Doug
As you mention, finding adapters is a no brainer.
Perhaps thaz why all your replies focus on telling
you where to find them ?
As to a camera for your needs, if your needs are
quite varied, and you want your 21mm to still be
a really wide angle lens, then the camera must
be the same format size as an M-Leica, and that
points to basically 4 lines:
Canon "R"
Leica "M"
Nikon "Z"
Sony "a7xx"
Operationally, all can fill your needs pretty much
the same as your old Leica film cameras did but
Sony offers the least expensive in the original a7
basic version, which is at very low close-out price
due to "Mk-II" and "Mk-III" versions now already
on the market. Even the "Mk-II" is on close-out.
Canon has a new "P" model in the "R" line as a
low priced model.
Nikon has not yet mentioned a low priced model
and acoarst you already ruled out Leica "M" :-(
All of these will meter with your old lenses.
Not knowing your actual needs, I can only point
out that you've been using a Nikon J body which
greatly narrows the angle of your lenses. If that
has been useful to you, then you might consider
m4/3 cameras from Panasonic or Olympus. The
21mm will be a normal with m4/3, whereas it's
been a very mild tele on the Nikon J.
Again, all these cameras are operationally very
similar. Some are styled like SLRs and have the
eyepiece near the middle. Others are styled like
RF bodies with the eyepiece on the corner. That
is about the biggest difference among them. All
are full time live view ... no SLRs. You can't use
old RF lenses on SLRs.
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