NY Times article about old lenses on digital cameras

...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....

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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:

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

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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 :D
 
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