leighton w wrote: CGrindahl wrote: leighton w wrote: the solitaire wrote: gbohannon wrote: DeltaSigma wrote: gbohannon wrote:
Georg - re: size with grip...
Quite a bit thinner and lighter, but still enough heft for those who prefer larger bodies
George,
Is it fair to say that any gains due to a thinner Fuji body are lost due to the adaptor required to mount non-native lenses?
Colin
Yes it adds to the length of the lens, but to say that you lose any gains? Well that is up to the perception of the user I guess. Overall length from LCD to front of the lens is basically the same. It all comes down to flange distance. The Fuji or any camera really with adapter and Nikon lenses will have to have the same distance from the lens mount to the sensor.
You see below with the same lens (well one is Non-Ai the other is AI) but both 20mm UD.
Df w/Lens 1180g - X-T2 w/Lens 1092g
Not a big difference. But for me personally it was not really about size but options. I like to tinker. For me, messing around with the hardware, taking lenses apart and doing things on my own is a satisfying part of the photography hobby. And with some nudging by Georg and Scott the last couple days, may even give a try again at developing film.
You also notice I still have my Df. Some things will not be replaced
As you illustrate here George, the distance between the image sensor plane and the F mount (the register distance) has to be identical. Otherwise, the lens will no longer focus infinity, or it will focus "To infinity, and beyond!" to quote Buzz Lightyear from the Pixar movie Toy Story.
For the lens to focus as intended, the register distance needs to be identical to that of the camera the lens is intended to, so in this dimension, there will be no size gains (unless you buy an adapter for every lens, or remove the adapter every time you put the camera back in the pack, in which case the camera body will be a bit more then an inch (28,8mm) thinner then the Nikon camera.
Since I'm neither interested in buying 10+ $500 adapters, nor in removing my F mount every time I put the camera in the pack, I'm not expecting to save space in that dimension. But to illustrate what I'm after:
See the real difference in occupied space between the F2 and the D3 has something to do with the ergonomic grips on two sides of th ecamera, and of course one of them also holds the battery, but still, it takes up a fair chunk of space where the Fuji would be a real space saver, even with permanently attached Metabones adapter.
To be fair, you don't HAVE to have the most expensive Metabones. In fact, you can get some cheap adapters on ebay that will work fine, according to the Angry Photographer.
Which works fine so long as one is content with a DX sensor and lenses now 1.5x longer than on an FX camera. It sounds as though Buddy isn't concerned since he was also talking about the D500. I'm not certain I would want to contend with that.
I am enjoying the banter on the thread at the moment, however. Nice to hear you're thinking about a second manual focus Nikkor. I was contemplating sending you a package filled with "loaners" just to keep you in the fold...
My NMFAS has been stirred up lately.
Besides the 55 micro what are you looking for. I have some inventory I need to downsize
