NY Times article about old lenses on digital cameras

[dazedgonebye]

...and they even mentioned us over at the manual focus forum.

Taken this weekend with an old 60's vintage vivitar 180mm f3.5, pre-set aperture, T-mount (with nikon 5T diopter).
It's dark in that 300D viewfinder at f11, but if you perservere....

 

[shadowfox]

I use lenses of old with my equally "ancient" Olympus E-300 🙂
To me they are a lot of fun to shoot with and the results are awesome.

A sample:

And a 100% crop (*not* from center):

see the faint spider webs beneath the flower? ... this is from an old "second tier brand" Tokina ATX 24-40mm 1:2.8.

Btw, this is taken *wide-open* (forgot the exact focal length), and no, I don't use split-screen focusing. Pain-staking? no, not after you've done it enough times 😀