Newbie here...
花生~VENUS by JPOPLOVER19, on Flickr
花生~VENUS by JPOPLOVER19, on Flickr
花生~VENUS by JPOPLOVER19, on Flickr
花生~VENUS by JPOPLOVER19, on Flickr
花生~VENUS by JPOPLOVER19, on Flickr
花生~VENUS by JPOPLOVER19, on Flickr

Hi guys new Sony adopter here. Jumped to A6000 for the feather-weight. Feels so good, like taking off steel-capped shoes after long day at work!

Some pic spam for today's A7II launch event at JB


My A7+ Voigtlander 50mm f/1.1 and Nokton classic 50mm f/1.5
Im in love with the 50 1.5 classic! SOOOO DREAMY

hand icthy..... post some pic from 2 years ago... september 2012, shot with A99. (heavy loads warning)

I order all my converters from  Alixpress..  the CY to Nex is only US13/- 

Will be interesting to see how your CY Planar compare to the Contax G Planar.. though its focal length is 45 mm  f2.

I have a rangefinder Sonnar 50 f1.5  and it is totally different in performance compared to the Planar.. I use to have a M42 mount Jenna Tessar 50mm f2.8 and was all dusty inside.. I just pop out the lens and give it a good clean.. bought it for US10/ with camera body.. gave it away eventually when I got the Sonnar.

I will not be too freak out over all those CLA, dust and all else issue.. my Sonnar is 1932 make and all its coating at the centre is almost gone..and yes there are even air bubbles in the glass!!  All I did was to give it a good long lens hood and it works great.. shooting back light may be an issue with flare but comes with its own beauty..  the Sonnar Glow , a gem when it comes to shooting portrait with the aperture wide open -- the Planar is outclass in this category.. but the Planar for me is great for other aspects.

Have fun.

All converters from lenses with larger flange distance (DSLR lenses - Nikon FX/DX, Canon EF/EF-S, Sony SAL lenses, Pentax etc etc and even film era lenses that covers 35mm format film) can be mounted on most mirrorless camera (shorter flange distance/smaller sensor size) with a converter that DOESN'T have any optics. Electronics maybe got but mostly no optics. Except some like metabones speedbooster that claims to fit full frame FOV into APS-C size sensor (no more crop factor although used on APS-C sensor) and also wider aperture... And Sony its own LA-EA2/4 that has a transluscent mirror for phase detect AF sensor to work. These have optics/mirror in it. Otherwise all the cheapo made in china converters is basically just a mount converter. No electronics, no mirror, nothing inside the converter.

Electronics are for AF/Aperture etc.

Say for Canon newer lenses without aperture ring, the aperture can only be controlled electronically. Some more expensive adaptors have this function. Some even can do AF. Not sure about Nikon ones though. But if you buy real old legacy lenses, mostly come with aperture ring one la

Yes they are just to help mate the two different mounts together.. What you may find annoying is it my overshoot the infinity focus position.. You can fix it if you are really fussy by shimming.. or get a focus helicoid and pin it into a fix position..  Some people complain of lens wobble with these interface.. again can be fi very easily.. a dab of slow set epoxy and careful grinding will do the job.. If you look at some of the sony lens you will also see epoxy in the mounts too! 

if your Nikon lens has separate aperture and focus control it will not be an issue.. I know my A1 type works great..

I have the autofocus adapter for Contax G - Zeiss lens.. performance is not good enough.. and it is expensive.. focusing on such prime lens need to be precision.. 

What I do find out is Focus Peaking should be turn off.. I find it give me false information... I turn it off  in a wedding photoshoot recently and found I got better results..

Quality? Like someone said before, Nikon-Nex adapters (not Speedboosters, mind you) don't have optics so besides losing some light (and some of the lenses not being optimised for digital) you don't really lose much.

Except maybe if you get one that effs up infinity.

That said, G lenses need G adapters because they don't have aperture controls on-lens. For everything else, the common Nikon-Nex adapters work fine for everything from Pre-AI to the normal AF lenses, but you'll need to MF all of them ler.

My personal fave Nikkor so far is the very old Nikkor SC 1.4/50. Not too huge (like a Nikkor 1.2/55) and not too slow. It's not the sharpest but for portraits it works nice as its a tad dreamy and the bokeh is not too harsh and not too quirky (unlike most other Nikon fifties).



Unfortunately, MF-ing it is a massive pain at f1.4 and with the adapter it's actually more on the heavy side of things, so I don't really bring it along that often coz I like to keep my walkaround kit small. Plus I don't really shoot at 50 on crop that often.

Which is a real shame as it does render very well.

Here's an old test shot though:


Nikkor SC 1.4/50 Test by Eirakkun, on Flickr

my recent weekend engagement assignment...a77+1650 combo


DSC03949 by NinjaKlickZ, on Flickr


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