Thread: Best Camera for Legacy Glass?

I am not a big MF/legacy guy, but I am enjoying focus peaking on my K-01 a ton and can now see what all the fuss was about.

I have also heard that the Nex5N is pretty great, even with the wider legacy stuff.

Pentax has the best backward compatibility with legacy lenses. It's pretty simple: you can take any lens ever made for any 35mm Pentax camera, and use it on any Pentax DSLR ever made.

Nex!!!!!!!!!!!!!

G1 - you can probably buy a body for £100

most legacy glass on M43 sucks anyway - so don't waste your money - it's just a fad - IMHO of course

For legacy lenses get a GXR with A12 Mount, fantastic image quality due to the lack of AA filter, great handling and controls and an even better peaking implementation than the NEX.

Get some nice Leica screw,mount lenses and you have a really small and light kit. The Russian Jupiter lenses are good quality and great value.

Im totally enjoying my epl3 using Leica glass.. focusing is easy with the telephoto button, non issue with adaptive lens.



45mm 1.8 Native Lense


50mm 1.4 Adaptive Lense

Originally Posted by Perry

Pentax has the best backward compatibility with legacy lenses. It's pretty simple: you can take any lens ever made for any 35mm Pentax camera, and use it on any Pentax DSLR ever made.

The keyword is "Pentax". It is cool that Pentax policy is that any camera they make will be compatible with any lens they've every made. I'm talking SLRs so yes the Q is a disaster for this. But the NEX is a better MF camera because it can work with almost any camera lens ever made from any manufacturer. The few that don't work, you don't want to use. For example, CS mount video lenses.

Is a 1935 Carl Zeiss Jena 5cm F1.5 considered Legacy or Antique?



At F1.5 on the EP2.

Same lens on the M9.



Converted to Leica Thread Mount.

Dragging up one of my older threads, now that we seem to have 3 very high end Compact Bodies with the NEX 7, EM-5 and Fuji X Pro-1 how do they stack up for using legacy glass?

NEX-7 has peaking. From my point of view that settles it