Vintage / Manual Focus Lens on Digital Camera

Manual / vintage lens is a lens that was made in the days of film cameras / analog. The characteristic is the  aperture setting is done by turning the diaphragm ring on the lens, so it can not set the aperture from camera menu.

manual aperture

Manual lens has some kind of mounting, including:
- Pentax M42 / screw / screw mount
- Pentax K or often called PK
- Yashica or C / Y
- Minolta MD
- Olympus / OM
- Minolta MC
- Canon FD
- Canon FL
- Nikon
- M39 / Leica mount
- Exakta
- Pentacon Six
- etc  

M42 / screw mount

To attach this lens to DSLR / Mirrorless body its required a special adapter types.
For example: Canon EOS 550D camera, lens mount M42 manual, it should use the M42-EOS adapter.
The prices of the adapter are vary, depending on the lens mount and the body in use.
There are adapters that use focus confirm chip, its enable camera to beep (or green light) when focus is obtained.
 

The images of a manual lens have different characteristics , depending on the brand (optic) and number of diaphragm blades. Usually, more blades more price.

Lens Blades (inside the lens)

Some brand of analog lens:
- Carl Zeiss (CZ)
- Meyer
- Pentacon
- Canon
- Takumar / Pentax
- Helios
- Revuneon
- Industar
- Vivitar
- Minolta Rokkor
- Lentar
- Sears
- WOCO
- Leica
- Pentax
- Yashica
- Sigma
- Tamron
- etc.

There is a certain satisfaction when using vintage manual lens on a digital camera. Besides the price is much cheaper than digital lens, the result is no less satisfying. In fact, there is a picture quality that is much better than the digital lens.

Good luck! 

p.s: if available, use live view when focusing for more accurate image.

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