# Photography topic **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** arts-crafts\ **Created:** [December 9, 2020, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photography-topic/927629 "2020-12-09T10:25:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![batan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/batan/32/5810_2.png) [@batan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/batan)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2020, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photography-topic/927629/1 "2020-12-09T10:25:10Z")
Hi I love taking photos. I love collecting (and shooting with) vintage lenses (and maybe couple cameras). Share your best photo or your collection 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2020, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photography-topic/927629/2 "2020-12-09T23:57:44Z")
I tried to upload and post one but it says you can’t embed media in a post. So I deleted the words…still no dice. I don’t have a lot of them hosted elsewhere—I think photobucket deleted my account. I shot about 250K images in 10 years. At first it was lots of macro stuff. Lately it’s travel. I like micro four thirds (Olympus, Panasonic) equipment. ---
**Author:** ![batan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/batan/32/5810_2.png) [@batan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/batan)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2020, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photography-topic/927629/3 "2020-12-11T13:52:38Z")
> [@lobotomyboy63](#): > > I like micro four thirds (Olympus, Panasonic) equipment. I had Oly Pen-F and I still think it’s the best camera on the market! (+Mitakon 25mm 0.95 lens) Now I’m using Fuji XE3 with speedbooster and a ton of vintage lenses. My fav: - Minolta MD III 50mm 1.4 - Carl Zeiss Jena Biotar 58mm 2.0 - Carl Zeiss Jena Biotar 75mm 1.5 - Meyer Optik Görlitz Trioplan 100mm 2.8 - Carl Zeiss Jena Flektogon MC 35mm 2.4 If only Olympus Pen-F was APCS or FF… ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2020, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photography-topic/927629/4 "2020-12-11T23:12:48Z")
> [@batan](#): > > Now I’m using Fuji XE3 with speedbooster and a ton of vintage lenses. Actually, when I started the DSLR thing, it was 4/3 (not yet micro 4/3). I still use Olympus E-30. I have over 100K clicks on it. I tried some vintage lenses as well. My biggest set up was a manual focus Vivitar series 1 70-210 with a reversing ring to a 50mm Minolta f1.7 to see how macro I could go. It’s cumbersome and has almost zero depth of field. I’m jealous of that 1X-5X Canon offers but realistically I need to figure out focus stacking. How do you like the speedbooster? As you may know, the (micro) four thirds system ends at 7mm, or 14mm EFL…I have a 9mm but sometimes I’d like to go wider. ---
**Author:** ![batan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/batan/32/5810_2.png) [@batan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/batan)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2020, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/photography-topic/927629/5 "2020-12-13T20:08:50Z")
On MFT I was happy with Mitakon Lens Turbo II. No I use Metabones Speedbooster Minolta SR → Fuji and with a lot of lenses aperture is stuck wide open (that’s fine in 99% of cases) buuuuuuuuut I can use M42-\>Minolta SR adapter and use lenses like the ones I listed above 🙂 Minolta MD II 50mm 1.4 works fine but MD III 35mm 1.8 and 85mm 1.7 stay open.