Comments on: How to Use Vintage Lenses on Your Digital Camera

By: Lee

Lee — Wed, 19 Aug 2020 08:09:40 +0000

Hi V. Thanks for that. As for your issue, I’m not sure, but I could ask some questions that might help you find the answer.

Have you got the ISO set to a value rather than auto? Does the lens have oily blades that might be causing them to open/close slowly?

Does it happen with other lenses too? The NEX 3 is quite an old camera now, isn’t it? I wonder if the issue is with the meter or something else electronic?

Maybe none of that helps. I’m just trying to think of what it *might* be.

I think I remember a similar thing happening sporadically for me and I just half-pressed the shutter button to make the camera expose for the shot again. If the issue persists, that might be a quicker way to get around it?

I hope you can figure it out. Please report back if you do and let us know how. 🙂

By: V Rodichev

V Rodichev — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 17:10:29 +0000

Hi, mate. Have read everything you wrote here. Thanks a lot, I’ve got plenty of that to use in practice. I sold my pentax DSLR camera for sony nex 3 and now trying to use my pentax smc lenses (both manual and digital) with Sony nex. Shooting in aperture priority mode, but exposure metering is always not correct (too dark scene usually and I need to correct it by a small dial every time I make a shot). Set aperture manually on the lens. When meter wide open – it’s ok, but when stopped down for next shot it’s dark very much. Maybe I do something wrong? Is there any chance to help camera to meter exposure correctly? thank you

By: Lee

Lee — Mon, 22 Jun 2020 12:09:35 +0000

In reply to Phillip. Thanks for commenting Phillip. Hope you win some of your bids. Am sure you won't need luck shooting them. f8 and zone focus and you'll be grand. :)

By: Phillip

Phillip — Thu, 18 Jun 2020 13:06:26 +0000

Looking forward to trying this myself. Have a Fuji XT1 and XPRO1 and bidding on some vintage glass and adaptors on the way too. Just been using the 18-55 kit lens til now but wanted to get more adventurous! Great write up here thanks... wish me luck!

By: Lee

Lee — Fri, 15 May 2020 14:22:03 +0000

In reply to Bonaventura Paturzo.

I don’t know mate. Hard to diagnose from here. 🙂 A few questions though, maybe can help figure it out.

Are you shooting in normal daylight? And what have you got the ISO set to?

Also is your exposure compensation set to zero? And have you tried it with a different lens to see if it works okay with that?

And one more question, have you tried getting a well exposed photo at f5.6 in manual mode?

I don’t know if this will help us get closer to your solution but worth asking. 🙂