Lampwork Etc.
 
Send a PM to CorriDawn!

LE Live Chat

Enter Live Chat

No users in chat


The Flow

Glacial Art Glass


 

Go Back   Lampwork Etc. > Library > The Dark Room

The Dark Room -- Photo Editing and Picture Taking. Advice, tutorials, questions on all things photoshop, photo editing, and taking pictures of beads or glass.

Reply
 
Thread Tools
  #1  
Old 2012-06-27, 3:39pm
Flamin' Francesca's Avatar
Flamin' Francesca Flamin' Francesca is offline
Bad Cat Glass
 
Join Date: Oct 18, 2008
Location: The Pirate Nation
Posts: 873
Default 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.
__________________
Dear Karma, I have a list of people you missed. Let's start with the "A's," shall we?
Reply With Quote
  #2  
Old 2012-06-27, 4:28pm
Katie Katie is offline
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Jun 16, 2005
Posts: 781
Default

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
Reply With Quote
  #3  
Old 2012-06-27, 4:47pm
lysa's Avatar
lysa lysa is offline
Senior Moment
 
Join Date: Apr 15, 2008
Location: Liberty NC
Posts: 688
Default

I have a bunch of old Minolta lenses.....any hope for me?
__________________
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. Poe



To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
Reply With Quote
  #4  
Old 2012-06-27, 5:58pm
Flamin' Francesca's Avatar
Flamin' Francesca Flamin' Francesca is offline
Bad Cat Glass
 
Join Date: Oct 18, 2008
Location: The Pirate Nation
Posts: 873
Default

I looked on Amazon, and they do have several adapters for Minolta.


http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_no...ta+for+olympus
__________________
Dear Karma, I have a list of people you missed. Let's start with the "A's," shall we?
Reply With Quote
  #5  
Old 2012-06-27, 6:01pm
squid's Avatar
squid squid is offline
Ass-kicking Cephalopod
 
Join Date: Jun 19, 2006
Location: Duh, Squidville
Posts: 9,523
Default

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.
__________________

To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 5 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

DOG is my co-pilot
Cricket w/two 5 lpm oxycons - and sometimes a Minor.
Reply With Quote
  #6  
Old 2012-06-27, 7:07pm
Flamin' Francesca's Avatar
Flamin' Francesca Flamin' Francesca is offline
Bad Cat Glass
 
Join Date: Oct 18, 2008
Location: The Pirate Nation
Posts: 873
Default

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.
__________________
Dear Karma, I have a list of people you missed. Let's start with the "A's," shall we?
Reply With Quote
Reply


Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)
 
Thread Tools

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Forum Jump




All times are GMT -7. The time now is 7:54am.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.7.5
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Your IP: 34.203.221.104