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If you haven't tried Voigtlander lenses, please do. They are a wonderful experience. On any system.

I remember feeling naive asking a similar question in this forum last year and was treated very kindly. Yep, it's the flange distance, so slim ain't happening.

@Arutemu It's the Kiron that does it for me out of those 2 images, thanks for posting.

Looking back on my question and the answers given, it seems the Takumar was one of the worst cases I could have provided for seeking a thinner adapter given the flange focus distance. I can see though that the best chances of using a thin adapter would be with Leica or Contax rangefinder lenses...

Apologies if this sounds a bit naive or silly, but it's something I'd like to know and here's a good a place to ask as any. Is there an adapter which is 'thin', or makes you feel that you are connecting your adapted glass to your A7 natively? Or to put it another way, I have a Takumar 50mm...

Is the setup clunky? Doesn't bother me, as the images produced are clearly stellar. I'd just like to know.

The 35mm & 50mm FLs certainly look good to go.

Well that puts to bed this "M mount doesn't work on A7" theory I often see opined.

I do love legacy 135mm F2.8 lenses, often wrongly neglected because of the 'slow' aperture but just as sharp as as the faster modern versions and IMO wonderful bokeh or whatever you want to call it. Not getting a legacy 135mm seems a bit silly when you have the perfect body (A7) to exploit it.

I wonder if it's manual focusing and exposure locking that creates the "magic"?

I must admit, my attention was drawn to the Minolta.

You generally can't go wrong with a Nokton, whatever camera eco system you are in. Made in the same factory as the Zeiss glass aren't they? No matter, aside from the excellent optics, I always love the wonderful focus ring on a Nokton which seems to make MF that much more easy and enjoyable.

Yep!

We'd all loved to have been on that holiday.

Very sharp!

Post of the day!

Where in London were they taken Gary?

It always shows when someone has been genuinely enjoying themselves behind the lens.

We can't all speak 5 languages like you dutch :biggrin:

Top quality!

I wouldn't let it bother you really.

Really?

Yeah, the b&w tones are really good actually.

Like you @TedG954 , I have a D800(E), but only on the strict understanding that its used for landscapes (and maybe portraits) and if you're going to get the best out of that or a Sony A7, the size of the required lenses make both systems big. So would I take that gear on a week long country...

Yes, massive problems over the last day, which has gone away now. You almost expect it to happen again. Wouldn't even let me access the website which was apparently 'invalid'.

Nah, it really does give winter an added purpose.

It's summer over here and "warm" as the Australians put it (ie, bloody hot), but these images make me think I can look forward to winter and have a go myself!

A perfect example of what can ensue with hard work, thought and preparation.

I accept that once I post on Flickr, the image is gone. Having said that I'd be mightily p"#sed off if I took a picture of my pet and that same image ended up on someone's promo which they're making money from. Sympathies from me for sure.

This is an immensly useful thread for those of us considering the Zeiss 35/f1.4 on other systems as the images will practically be the same, MF abilities notwithstanding.

6th image easily the bast one, spontaneous, tells a story, great expressions, nice work!

If you're somewhere where no one knows you and you won't be going back for another year or forever, then pointing a big camera (which to me, in 'stealth' terms, means an A7 + non pancake lens, even the famed M9) is not that much of a problem as you won't instinctively be as conscious. I even...

Don't worry about it! That's not what immediately comes to mind when you see the image.

I wonder how that would look if you cropped deeply to the 2 ladies to the left at the back? Presumably you could get away with doing that with the FF file. Yeah, I know some will say that's not what SP is about etc etc, but it's the resulting image that counts, right?

You forgot to include an image with your post.

I wouldn't worry too much about sharpness when doing this type of photography, Ad.

Just wonderful.

Nice and bright, very well processed.

FWIW, the chess game and the yawn are the best ones for me. Great compositions there and you've shown that the 35mm f2.8 is better than I thought it was.

Which wouldn't a problem with the DR on the camera, no?

Tell us about the technique used please!

Very interesting OP and responses. Not sure an A7 and accompanying lens is the most stealthy of setups for street shooting, an A6xxx or Nex camera seems better suited. Sony also has the tools needed to produce a fine GR/X70/Coolpix A fixed focal lens apsc camera as well which I'd like to see.

I get this. I mean, what's the point of getting a full frame camera? Isn't the major difference shown in the prints? If I had a full frame camera, that's where I'd be headed, otherwise what would be the point in spending a considerable sum of money on a camera and lenses without really...

I really do like this thread, it just shows what having a camera's all about all about and why we like doing what we do.

haha, I was half expecting some sort of AA filter-type discussion.

@MAubrey , so what's replacing the Olympus 75mm for you? (I only ask as, in addition to the m43 size, that lens has always been the primary reason stopping me from leaving that system).

This is exactly what's put me off getting a DSLR/long native E mount lens, I'm so self consious I think I'm going to get asked this every time I go out with one.

What is it they say? 95% of the optical quality of the Otus for 40% of the price. That really is a lens to aim for one day.

How does the Sigma feel on the A7II? The impression I have is that it may be comfortable on, say a D750?