In reply to moffatross:
Thanks, I literally just created this album a minute ago
https://www.flickr.com/photos/blue-straggler/sets/72157645085794707/ (NB these are classed as "technical test shots and training shots" rather than "mind blowing art or photojournalism"
I just have a standard adaptor, I don't know what I wrote earlier in the thread but my logic was....get the camera first. THEN a cheaper standard adaptor whilst I get used to it all and see if I like it. And then consider the Mitakon. Remember I wanted to do this all on the cheap so I wasn't going to throw a bundle of cash at it all in one go.
Anyway. I am pretty happy. I read that manual focusing without an EVF is a bit of a lost cause. I am not so sure. The Focus Peaking feature is helpful (although as I chose "red" it did make the waterfowl pics look like bloody carnage on the screen
). I must admit there were a fair few missed focus ones, but I hope that just means I need more practice, rather than needing a £200 EVF. Actually this is the point I expected to be at in 2006 when I got a Nikon D70, but the viewfinder on that one seemed to make it stupidly hard for me to manually focus!
I will save pennies for a Lens Turbo. My reasoning is similar to yours although approached from a different aspect - I just wanted to retain the right coverage (well put another way, I have been tending toward wide rather than short tele, in the last few years).
My kit lens is the 16-50mm, I got lucky on eBay. I knew I wanted the F3 with a 16-50, and one came up. Yes it is like a big compact for big pockets.
Have you got a decent case to carry it in? That may be my next mission!
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