Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
We are used to the wonderful flexibility of Sony A7 series cameras being able to take most any lenses you own, and that has been a blessing to so many of us.
I myself have saved Pentax, Leica, Canon FD and assorted other great lenses and adapted them successfully to the A7R.
Today I have the Fuji GFX camera and just one f4.0 32-64mm lens.
So I purchased a Contax/Yashica adapter by Fotodiox. If fits perfectly and I can now any C/Y lens.
Here I started with the "Anniversary" 28mm f 2.0 lens and tried it first, hand hold at night in the Eaterly restaurant balcony in Century City, where the salmon is the freshest and delciously cooked!
A packed table of happy celebrating women adjacent to us needed a group picture so I, of course stood up and took that phone so they could all be in the picture.
It turned out they were all from Manahattan Beach, further south from Los Angeles and knew my "Puff of Wind Sculpture" and so we made friends! They have been close for decades, playing tennis together and sharing good times with their growing families.
Then I snapped some quick shots with the contax 28 mm. I cannot remember what setting, but I beleive it was at 5.6, pretty wide open for a MF camera.
The illumination was so uniform all over the field, so I had to burn in the corners and edges a tad to get the result below. No sharpening applied.
Asher Kelman: The Tennis Players
Fuji GFX 50S
Fotodiox C/Y - GFX Adapter
Contax Anniversary 28mm 2.0
1/13 sec, ISO 1600
Corners "burnt in" CC PS 2018
For 1/13 second this is acceptable!
I need to test it with daylight too, with smaller aperture and more reasonable shutter speed!
Enjoy
Asher
I myself have saved Pentax, Leica, Canon FD and assorted other great lenses and adapted them successfully to the A7R.
Today I have the Fuji GFX camera and just one f4.0 32-64mm lens.
So I purchased a Contax/Yashica adapter by Fotodiox. If fits perfectly and I can now any C/Y lens.
Here I started with the "Anniversary" 28mm f 2.0 lens and tried it first, hand hold at night in the Eaterly restaurant balcony in Century City, where the salmon is the freshest and delciously cooked!
A packed table of happy celebrating women adjacent to us needed a group picture so I, of course stood up and took that phone so they could all be in the picture.
It turned out they were all from Manahattan Beach, further south from Los Angeles and knew my "Puff of Wind Sculpture" and so we made friends! They have been close for decades, playing tennis together and sharing good times with their growing families.
Then I snapped some quick shots with the contax 28 mm. I cannot remember what setting, but I beleive it was at 5.6, pretty wide open for a MF camera.
The illumination was so uniform all over the field, so I had to burn in the corners and edges a tad to get the result below. No sharpening applied.
Asher Kelman: The Tennis Players
Fuji GFX 50S
Fotodiox C/Y - GFX Adapter
Contax Anniversary 28mm 2.0
1/13 sec, ISO 1600
Corners "burnt in" CC PS 2018
For 1/13 second this is acceptable!
I need to test it with daylight too, with smaller aperture and more reasonable shutter speed!
Enjoy
Asher