Hey thanks a million Michael, and others who have contributed! Just bought a Rokinon 14mm and this thread has a wealth of useful info for me - answers to questions I didn't know existed and new questions I should be asking. I'll post them on the board as soon as I think I can intelligently pose them
Some time ago I published a beginners guide to manual lenses on the sony a7 most of the advanced users here probably won't learn anything new but if you are abeginner it could be helpful to learn the basics of using manual lenses on the Sony Alpha 7
I thought this was worth posting for easy reference ... from the Zeiss Lens Blog;
"Over the course of time ZEISS has published a lot of interesting technical articles about the physical basics of camera lenses. However, after some years not every article can be found that easily. That’s why we decided to publish them all in one blog post to give you easy access."
Hoping someone can answer this: I just tried my old Nikkor-S 55mm f1.2 lens on my D750 Body. It appears that I have to set the aperture to what I want & then mount the lens for it to work. Make sense? Any way to get it so I can simply mount this old lens and be able to rotate the aperture ring to what I want? Thanks.
bobring wrote:
Hoping someone can answer this: I just tried my old Nikkor-S 55mm f1.2 lens on my D750 Body. It appears that I have to set the aperture to what I want & then mount the lens for it to work. Make sense? Any way to get it so I can simply mount this old lens and be able to rotate the aperture ring to what I want? Thanks.
I'm not a Nikon shooter but did find a few links on google, hope these help. The first link talks about conversions and who might do them, the third is just a list of older 55mm f1.2 versions, it might help with identification?
A great summary, though I'm not used to thinking of lenses in the native mount by third parties as alt lenses.
Can I suggest adding PK/PKA & T2 to the glossary, and perhaps some of the more common rangefinder/enlarger mounts (LTM & M39x1 are great for adapting on mirrorless cameras.
