Manual 35mm Lenses With Mirrorless Cameras

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Ted Forbes

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🗓️ 16 April 2015

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Mirrorless camera design has had a big impact on the way we take pictures. The original thing that attracted me to mirrorless was the idea of being able to get an adaptor and use lenses from my old 35mm lens collection with my camera. And it couldn’t be easier. Because there is no mirror in the design, mirrorless cameras use electronic viewfinders. Because you’re composing your image with a screen, there is more you can do with assisting technology imposed on the screen to make your life easier. Confusing? Yes. The first time I used a mirrorless camera I hated it. It felt like a gimmick with all the stuff on the screen. But after sticking with it and applying some of the techniques that I use to shoot video to still photography – it actually works. And if you set it up right its MUCH easier to use than a DSLR, particularly with manual focus lenses. Sponsor: Squarespace.com For a free trial and 10% off your order, visit http://squarespace.com and use offer code AOP on checkout

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, Ted Forbes here and welcome back to the art of photography.
0:02.9	In this video I want to take a look at mirrorless cameras and I want to talk about using
0:07.2	them with manual focus lenses.
0:09.5	And you know the really cool thing with a lot of the mirrorless design that really appealed to me early on and the reason I got into
0:16.0	Marless cameras was that I have a lot of old 35mm cameras and I have a lot of
0:20.6	lenses and so it made sense that all of a sudden if I could get an
0:23.7	adapter that would work with my mirrorless cameras that all of a sudden I would have
0:27.2	access to this full range of lenses. Well truth be now when I first got into
0:31.1	this it was a little bit frustrating because you don't have a
0:33.9	mirror and everything is displayed on a screen whether it's the back screen on here
0:37.6	whether it's the viewfinder it's still a digital screen and that was really
0:41.0	awkward for me at first to use.
0:43.0	However, once you start to get used to the fact that you have a lot of options when you have a screen instead of just an old visual viewfinder
0:50.0	that are available to you and you start setting these up the correct way
0:53.8	which I'm going to show you how to do today it opens up a world of
0:56.6	possibilities and I found that these cameras perform just as well as my old
1:00.1	35 millimeter cameras which I still use when I shoot film but it's really
1:04.0	natural progression for me to use these on Merless because it's just so easy and I
1:09.2	can use the same lenses on my film cameras that I can on my digital cameras.
1:12.2	So without further ado let's go over to the desk and let's have a seat.
1:15.2	I'm going to show you how you can set up your mirrorless camera to use with manual
1:18.6	focus lenses.
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