Vintage Lenses on Digital Cameras

VINTAGE SCREW MOUNT LENSES...WORTH THEIR WEIGHT IN GOLD...TOP QUALITY LIKE ZIESS, LEICA, TAKUMAR, PENTAX, AND HELIOS...BEST OF ALL THEY CAN BE DIRTY CHEAP

The hundreds of manual focus lenses adaptable for D.S.L.R.’s vary in price from the unlikely Sears-branded variations for under $10 to limited editions of the legendary Leica Noctilux that can cost more than $10,000.

For mechanical and optical reasons, some brands of D.S.L.R.’s work with a wider array of vintage lenses than others. Nikon D.S.L.R.’s can take scores of vintage Nikon lenses without adapters. But the Nikon cameras don’t work well, if at all, with the majority of vintage lenses from makers like Olympus, Pentax and Zeiss.
Canon cameras have the opposite characteristic. They are incompatible with most vintage Canon lenses, but with cheap adapters can mount dozens of brands of third-party vintage lenses.
Olympus D.S.L.R.’s can mount most of the same vintage lenses Canon cameras can, along with vintage Olympus lenses if you have the adapters

Pentax D.S.L.R.’s can mount just about every Pentax lens ever made and the third-party lenses that use the Pentax-style lens-mount. Sony D.S.L.R.’s are the least compatible of the major manufacturers. Those cameras work with certain Minolta lenses and, with an adapter, lenses that use what is known as an M42 screw mount.

Pentax Screw Mount Lenses

As many of you know, the Pentax Screw Mount Lenses are superb lenses that cost relatively little. Some of the M42 Takumars are considered absolute "classics" and "gems" like the 50mm 1.4 SMC Takumar

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