foxbasher Posted January 21 Report Share Posted January 21 Evening all, my son has just saved up enough of his Dosh to buy a new camera to progress his photography but needs a lens or two as the camera he bought was "body only". He looking for lenses with an FE mount for a Sony camera. Sorry I hope that makes sense, he's trying to explain it to me but I'm more of a cut it, bash it and weld it sort of guy. Any advice or offers please Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minky Posted January 21 Report Share Posted January 21 Which type of lenses is he looking for.? Wide-angle, telephoto.? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foxbasher Posted January 21 Author Report Share Posted January 21 I think at the moment he's looking for a 24-70mm lens just to get him up and running until he can afford the extra ones. If it helps it for a Sony A7iii if that makes any sense. 🤔 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minky Posted January 21 Report Share Posted January 21 (edited) If pennies are short to get the expensive lenses he could always get a coupler/converter ring which allows a camera body to match up with a different make of lenses. OR lenses which are the same fit type but a different make. I have an Olympus micro 4:3rds and about 3 Olympus lenses to go with it but I got a converter ring to use the old pentax 42mm screw thread lenses. There are loads/thousands of old lenses of top quality makes from the days of 35mm film cameras. I have what would be thought of as cheap rubbish lenses Eg a Russian helios lens but it takes fantastic images of butterflies from a distance where they aren't spooked off. The only consideration is that there is a difference as to the focus point in an old SLR camera and a digital camera like my micro 4/3rd. The converter ring has to be the correct thickness distance so that the focus point is on the correct plane. Just a starting point. Have you got deep pockets. EDIT. We got a nice digital Sony for one of the grand daughters and i believe that the lenses that she has fit straight onto my Olympus and vise versa EDIT. what sort of photography interests him.? Edited January 21 by Minky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old man Posted January 22 Report Share Posted January 22 Maybe proceed slowly? I had a super Canon Camera, then when things went digital it was not compatible with their digital lenses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldypigeonpopper Posted January 22 Report Share Posted January 22 (edited) Hello, from what i read Sony Cameras have 2 lens type mounts, A mount, E mount, it should say on the instructions, as minky said you may find a suitable straight fit on lens of another make cheaper or an adapter to take another branded lens of ebay like Olympus , a 24 - 70mm would be a good starter lens, hope he gets sorted, Edited January 22 by oldypigeonpopper Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THEINVISIBLESCARECROW Posted January 22 Report Share Posted January 22 I have a Sony myself. As allready mentioned they have 2 types of mounting so check first. I found Minolta lens also fit mine BUT they have a different number of contact pins sometimes. That also happens with suitable Sony lens if not specific to my model of Sony. Check with mount type, Google correct lens mount, Google images for a look at the pins then go looking. Apparently the different pins (mine has 9) make no difference to the actual fitting but some camera / lens functions will be lost ie it will work but fancy rocket science stuff gone. Me I'm still confused with the buttons so keep everything simple & basic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minky Posted January 22 Report Share Posted January 22 The situation with the lenses connections is correct and when I use the Olympus lenses the operation is fully automatic but when I use the convertion ring with in my case an old quality good quality lens 42mm in my case you have to focus the lens manually (by using the focus ring on the lens) and maybe using the apature stop ring. None of this is difficult and when the picture looks sharp and not too light or dark, you press the button. It all comes down to being a cameraman and seeing a picture that gives you pleasure and perhaps is something different. Just take loads of pictures(Japanese tourist style) for every 100 pictures you might get 5 that are good. After a while he'll look back through a million pictures and think why the hell did I take that or who the hell are they. Back in 35mm film days you only to9k a few pictures and hoped. Now you can take lots and just sort and dump. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foxbasher Posted January 22 Author Report Share Posted January 22 Amazing, thanks guys lots of food for thought. I'll get him to check what mount it is and have a look at the adapters Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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