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2012-06-27, 3:39pm
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Join Date: Oct 18, 2008
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If you have old Canon or Nikon lenses...
If you have older Canon or Nikon lenses and are looking for a camera that you can use them with, I recommend the Olympus E-PL1. I had an A-1, which was new about 30 years ago, and had some pretty nice lenses, including a decent macro. Then came the digital revolution, and my camera and lenses were basically worthless. I had no success trying to find a digital SLR that I could use with them and settled for a point and shoot. Recently, a friend who takes about eleventy billion pics a month, told me about the E-PL1, which sells from Cameta Camera for a very reasonable $149. I bought it, and a $25 adapter from Amazon, and low and behold, I can use all my old lenses -- no auto-focus, but very sharp, crisp, photos. Of course, there's a full range of Olympus lenses available too. Hope this is useful to someone else with a bag full of old lenses. Oh, and you can also get an adapter for Nikon lenses.
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2012-06-27, 4:28pm
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Very good news. I as well have an old Canon A-1 with lots of expensive lenses.
I was going to sell them but now this may be a good way to put them back in use.
Some are rather heavy. Will check out the camera stores to go see it.
Thanks.
Katie
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2012-06-27, 4:47pm
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Senior Moment
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I have a bunch of old Minolta lenses.....any hope for me?
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2012-06-27, 5:58pm
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Bad Cat Glass
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I looked on Amazon, and they do have several adapters for Minolta.
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_no...ta+for+olympus
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2012-06-27, 6:01pm
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I have a Nikon D90 and am able to use all of my old Nikon lenses that I used to use on my Nikon 8008 with it.
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2012-06-27, 7:07pm
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Bad Cat Glass
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You're fortunate that you can use the older Nikon lenses with the newer camera. Was the Nikon 8008 a digital camera or did it at least have auto-focus? The Canon lenses I'm talking about are 30 years old or more and predate the whole digital revolution. The lens mount on the new DSLR Canon cameras does not work with these very old lenses, but they're still very nice lenses, so I was happy to find a way to use them.
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