Best digital system for inner mount 50mm f/1.1

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What is the best digital system that can use the 50mm f/1.1 inner mount lens. Also what is the best Nikon RF to Nikon 1 adapter. I want to start usinf my Nikon RF lenses again. Thanks.
 
Fuji X
two adapters in tandem (metabones X-M + Amadeo's M-S)
Kippon has an internal S Mount to X adapter too.
I'm using all the S-mount Nikkor's and CV's plus the Nikkor's LTM.
 
Remember that the Nikon 1 system has a pretty severe crop penalty. The 50mm will become a 135mm (2.7x) and not have much ability to separate the foreground even wide open.

I'd find a used Sony A7 and put a E-mount to S adapter on it.
 
FWIW (and I love adapters as much as the next guy). But you stack 'em, you say "yes" to stacking their tolerances too. Not much wiggle room with a 1.1 lens, know what I mean?
 
Shooting CV Nokton 50 f/1.5 in S mount on my Sony NEX cameras, especially the A6000, with E to S adapter.

The focus peaking and magnifier work very nicely.
 
ColSebastianMoran said:
Shooting CV Nokton 50 f/1.5 in S mount on my Sony NEX cameras, especially the A6000, with E to S adapter.

The focus peaking and magnifier work very nicely.
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I think focus peaking would be great with this set up. I would worry a bit with stacked adapters about whether the lens axis is perfectly perpendicular to the film plane. But of course that is no reason not to try it. I would love to see the results with a camera like the Nex 7. I have a NEX 5 and I use a "hood man" viewer kludged to the back of the camera with a rubber band. Ugly but works. Hey, the experimenting is half the fun. Somewhere around here I have a picture I made with a Pentax 67-to-Nikon, to Oly EP2 adapter. Whacky, but it works too.
 
Even without filter-stacking tolerances, the inner mount on the 1.1 created stresses and intolerance in the original film mount. That's why Nikon went to the external mount version. Even without adapters you are creating high stresses on the mount.
 
If you want full frame the Sony A7 series is the way to go. There are adapters for all kind of mounts, I expect you can find an adapter for the inner mount to Sony FE somewhere on Ebay.

If you don't mind 1.5 crop, an APS-C A6000 would be a cheaper option, or one of the Fuji cameras (I don't expect you can find an adapter for the Samsung NX cameras, but if you do, it also would be an option).

As somebody else already mentioned, I wouldn't bother using your RF lenses on a Nikon 1 series due to the huge crop-factor.
 
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