Legacy lenses

[zharca]

Hi, thanks for all the suggestions. I've found that you can buy two kinds of Om-to-Canon adapters: a simple mechanical one - stop-down metering, no focus confirmation - and a more expensive electronically coupled one with focus confimation and metering options. So I'll get the cheapo one to try out and if there's any value in using the lenses, I may spring for the expensive one.

Gotta say I won't be sorry to never shoot another transparency - hanging around whilst they're processed, getting them mounted, posted. Getting them back! (and rows when they're lost!!). And it all ended up digitally scanned anyway. I am thinking I might occasionally shoot and print B/W though, because that does achieve a look that can only be imitated with digital.

[eeyore]

Originally Posted by zharca

Gotta say I won't be sorry to never shoot another transparency - hanging around whilst they're processed, getting them mounted, posted. Getting them back! (and rows when they're lost!!)

I said that when i switched to dslr - but there is still just as much hanging about - for instance after my skye trip i spent 2 hours downloading, filing and renaming then a total of 28 hours in photoshop post processing - tho to be fair i did have over 3000 pictures to look through

and there is still the potential for lost images , corrupted cards, crashing hard drives etc etc

i still love my dslr tho and theres no way i'd swap back

[medieval knievel]

i use an olympus E500 with the olympus adapter and old OM zuiko lenses; you don't lose metering, at least not CW metering. stick the camera on aperture priority, and it's happy. there are two obvious drawbacks - the aperture stepping down to whatever is selected, not just at exposure time, and the small viewfinder on the E500 making manual focussing that wee bit harder.

[Interpreter]

I carry a cheap Canon 35mm film camera in my bag loaded with film. This camera will take my EOS lenses and is an ideal backup unit. Searching our favourite auction site, I bought 100 cassettes of 200 ASA 24 exposure colour negative film for £13 plus postage. It was 12 months in date. It was under the Jessops name, but I have no idea who actually made it.

If you try IR film, be careful if you use Canon film cameras. Some of them will not take IR film as they use IR to position the film.