I just love the way the NEX takes just about any lens ever made.
Had a great day today playing with two interesting lens/adapter combos.
First, I picked up an LA-EA2 alpha mount to NEX adapter without quite knowing what to do with it. Figured I would read up on Minolta and Sony lenses and find something fun to play with. So this morning I got a nice clean copy of the much loved/much maligned Minolta 70-210mm f4 \"Beercan\" off Craigslist. It was a blast using this lens all day with this great adapter, and the results are quite decent in my opinion.
Secondly, I\'m an early adopter of the Metabones electronically coupled Canon EF->NEX adapter. I\'ve been looking for good wide-angle lenses for my NEX and while I have and like the Voigtlander 15mm, the OM 18mm, a Nikon 20mm f2.8, the OM 21 f2, and a Contax G 21mm, the lens that\'s really been floating my boat is the Canon EF-S 10-22mm f3.5-4.5 on the Metabones adapter. This is a great lens, the adapter works great, and the 10mm-15mm range I haven\'t had access to before is turning out to be really useful.
The first batch of pictures comes from visiting the \"Red Oak Liberty\" - a 1944 transport ship built in the Richmond California shipyards for the war in the Pacific, and now on display in the shipyard where it was built.
This first image is a straight out-of-camera jpg taken from the deck of the liberty ship with the \"beercan\".
The second image shows my wife & the docent who gave us a tour, \"George\" who fought in the Pacific with the US Army from 1942-1945. Again, with the \"beercan\"
The ship was in service through the 50\'s and most of the 60\'s, so it has this amazing \"Atomic Attack Instructions\" poster. This is a crop of an image taken with the Canon EF-S 10-22mm.
After the liberty ship, we were exploring Berkeley and found a very narrow alley with big graffiti on the walls. Without the extra-wide 10-22mm most of these shots would have been impossible.
