Restarting an old project: vintage lens on digital cameras

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Way back in 2011 I bought a camera (a Sony Nex 5N). I had recently started collecting old cameras and I’d read that this camera could (with the appropriate inexpensive adapter) allow you to use vintage lens with it. I had picked up some vintage lenses with the old cameras I’d bought so I thought I’d give it a try.

I would have to focus the camera manually, so I don’t really know what possessed me to decide that street photography (where things move a lot) was the best way to start (i.e. rather than something which doesn’t move much at all like a landscape).
The pictures below were all taken in Manhattan the first day I tried this experiment. I was very pleased with the results. Subsequently I took quite a lot of photos with vintage lenses on a digital camera. But after a while I returned to auto focus, which I’ve been using for some time now. However, I’ve now decided to start a project using vintage lenses exclusively. We’ll see how it goes.

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Taken with a Sony Nex 5N and Canon 50mm f1.4 SSC FD