pingflood wrote: Makten wrote: pingflood wrote:
Might be picking up a 100s next week and was wondering if there are any decent medium format zooms that can be adapted to it. Any suggestions?
What is your goal? To save money? To have nice manual focus? To get "character"?
And what zoom range do you want; wide angle, normal or tele?
If you want to save money and need a normal/standard zoom, I'd say ditch the plan of adapted lenses and get the GF 35-70. It's very, very good and cheap and small and light.
Oh, it's mostly because I like playing with alt glass. I will probably pick up a 32-64 (owned one before when I had a 50R) as well.
So reason is mainly to see how it renders and compares to modern glass, and it's fun testing different optics. Zoom range standard-ish so something that falls between 24-100mm equiv.
In only shoot "alt" glass on my GFX 100S, but I've owned several GF lenses, and currently have the GF 35-70mm in my lens drawer. It's pristine due to lack of use... I also have the Pentax-A 645 45-85mm in my lens drawer. I used it a fair bit years ago, but not for years now.
In my opinion, you're not going to see anything "special" until you adapt a lens that has some aberrations that you find pleasing. Some people like CA, spherical aberration and swirly bokeh. Fuji GF lenses don't do those things. Pentax 645 lenses have the flaws that come with lenses that can be 40 years old, but they were serious lenses for professionals so you'll mostly get non-"special" results (by which I mean you'll get good quality images expected by professionals).
If you have money to throw at exploring adapted lenses, have at it! Some folks are getting great results with Minolta Rokkors for full frame, so that might be fun. Check out this thread: https://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/4774000
However, if you ultimately want a good lens that gives good results, the Fuji GF 35-70mm is excellent and very reasonably priced.
Aug 29, 2024 at 09:01 PM
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I also have the Pentax-A 645 45-85mm in my lens drawer. I used it a fair bit years ago, but not for years now.