Above: Canon DSLR w/ Zuiko manual-focus 28mm 3.5; and OM-4 w/ slightly larger 100mm 2.8.
UPDATED & EXPANDED Did you, wisely, hang on to your film-SLR lenses?
And do you dread lugging around that huge, slow-ish, front-heavy AF short DSLR zoom?
Especially if they are high-quality prime lenses, or good zooms, you may truly LOVE using film-SLR lenses on your DSLR.
(Not to mention the tremendous value of manual-focus glass for the booming world of DSLR filmmaking.)
Primes, especially, are compact, light and fast!
Manual focus lenses, duh, have no motors! So they're small, light and easy to carry around.
This may re-ignite your love of photography!
(Adapters are inexpensive and readily available; of course use them w/ caution, and run thru the focus scale to check that the rear lens element doesn't protrude too far back and hit the DSLR mirror.)
More to come on this truly exciting photographic development as we get out and shoot w/ our enormously appealing, fun, compact, lightweight manual-focus OM Zuiko lens arsenal -- 24mm through 200mm -- on our Canon DSLR.
(We keep finding lenses we'd stashed away... we don't want to brag, but we bought a bunch of gorgeous old OM Zuiko primes cheaply on ebay years ago, and amassed a nice little collection of sweet glass.)
No film lenses? Plenty of people are selling them relatively cheaply on ebay and elsewhere. Or they were cheap until DSLR filmmaking came along.
Grab 'em!
Concerned about no AF or limited AE?
Wah!; quit your belly-aching!
You don't need either to make great pictures.
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