What camera do I buy? / general gear talk

Cheaper alternative: Canon EOS M paired with the EF-M 22mm F2. Performance is incredibly impressive.

So my brother has a nice shiny Leica R4, and a bunch of Sony alpha mount lenses, is there and adaptor out there I can buy? Google seems to be a little useless

I'm almost sure this would work somehow, yet I've been told you'd go straight to hell within a year if you were to shoot Sony lenses on a Leica.

https://www.graphics.cornell.edu/~westin/misc/mounts-by-register.html

X100f? I had a D300 and 8 lenses, the X100f has had way more use than all that did in the last 7 or 8 years.

Not really keen on Fujifilm, had a loaner X100s for a while many moons ago (between a Ricoh GRD4 and a Sony Nex6+16mm pancake) but did not get along with the menu and controls were fidly.

I since then switched to film compacts and the Sigma 35mm f1.4 for most of my photography, but still miss some sort of digital compact.

Thankfully, I got my words muddled up and meant to write it the other way around haha, he’s got the Leica Leitz lenses and wants to put them on his DSLR Sony

That makes way more sense.

That is way less condemnable.

Leica R4, and a bunch of Sony alpha mount lenses

Mostly people use the Leica slrs for their lenses.

I think it’s going to be a problem using lenses for mirrorless bodies with an slr. The lenses sit relatively far from the film plain, so you’ll get massive vignetting.

Slr lenses on mirrorless ... not a problem.

no plain no gain

What’s really needed is the trusty forum classic: the inverse shim ;-)

Yeah I got muddled up and he's gonna be using the Leica lenses on his Sony DSLR so it's theoretically going to work if I find an adaptor? Only one that seems to exist for alpha mount is being sold only in America

https://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/Leica-R-LR-Lens-to-Sony-Alpha-Adapter-A77-A55-A33-A590-A560-A450-A550-A380-A290/142757020777

https://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/Macro-Leica-R-mount-L-R-LR-lens-to-Sony-Minolta-Alpha-mount-adapter-A77-A580-A99/261236979650

And so on...

You're clearly much better at interneting than I am... Cheers, this is gonna make a solid bday present for him haha

I'm not one to fart around with the menus too much, but you can put your most commonly used features on to a 4x4 grid.

Any interest in a Fuji X-E1 body (same sensor as X-PRO 1) and a few lenses and adapters? I love this little camera and the joys of cheap MF lenses, but it's just not getting used and I could do with the money. All working perfectly. Camera comes with charger and one battery. Lenses mostly have front and rear caps.
X-E1 - £150
Carl Zeiss Jena DDR 135mm f/3.5 'red MC' (highly-rated lens and coatings) - £50 inc M42-FX adapter
Olympus Zuiko 50mm f/1.8 'Made in Japan' (best version of insanely sharp nifty 50) - £30 inc OM-FX adapter
Vivitar 28mm f/2.8 'close focus' MC, Olympus fitment - £20
Ricoh Rikenon 50mm f/2 'Made in Japan' - £20 inc PK-FX adapter

Take the lot for £250 and I'll throw in Nikon AI-FX and Minolta MD-FX adapters and an SD card.

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Yes, they are all manual focus, non-Fuji lenses.

Tried to delete my post before you saw it! Gotcha. Potentially interested in just the body but understand if you don't wanna split. Will have a think.

oh man that's a great deal

Thanks - I think so! The Zeiss 135mm and the Oly 50mm in particular are outstanding lenses even wide open, and so easy to focus with focus peaking. But I also really like the rendering and colours from the cheap Ricoh. I don't know what the latest X-trans cameras are like but I had an X-E2 and really didn't like the waxy, over-smoothed skin in high ISO jpegs. This first generation of X-trans sensors didn't have that aggressive noise reduction.

Somebody please buy it before I talk myself into keeping it.

Somebody please buy it before I talk myself into keeping it.

I would, but I'd need it posted since I live in Switzerland :/

I really want to but I cannot afford this month :-(

Could do that. Will find out the cost to ship insured if serious?