Hey, this is Scott of Photography Banzai.
In this video I'm gonna talk about another adapter for the EF-M system.
A Nikon Adapter.
Actually did a video on this years ago, it's the same adapter from Fotasy NG/EOS M.
But I took this old kit lens out from Nikon recently, you'll see all of the photos and
stuff from that.
Worked out pretty well.
This lens is surprisingly versatile for the price.
I mean, you can buy almost any old kit lens, especially the film era stuff.
That kind of gives you a little bit more of a sweet spot for these crop cameras.
I've used this lens for situations like filming inside of viewfinders, and of course just
general photography.
You get some range with it.
Now one interesting with this specific adapter is that I had to put some tape to make sure
it was in the right position.
Otherwise I couldn't adjust the aperture from the ring.
So it's just a little easy quick fix with that tape.
This adapter does allow adjustment of aperture with the g-type lenses from Nikon.
But the negatives are there is very little travel to this ring and there's no hard stops.
Now, there is a benefit actually in video if you want a super smooth aperture adjustment.
Something like this will work.
It's just still pretty challenging because there's just a slight bit of adjustment available.
Settings wise I wanted this outing to be as easy and enjoyable as possible.
I didn't want to control a lot of settings.
Of course, I have to adjust the aperture and I've used the camera in Tv mode
with the auto ISO.
So I was controlling the exposure compensation and also the shutter speed, but I just set
that something I knew for the most part would not blur the photos if I was pretty still.
With this camera I'm really starting to enjoy adapting lenses that are relatively cheap,
inexpensive, and they have some unusual properties.
They're older, they're not perfect but you can still get some good fun photography
out of them.
Size and weight wise, this actually probably a little bit lighter than the Takumar 50mm
f1.4 setup.
Of course, this has a lot more glass in it.
Solid metal lens, but in this case I do think mostly plastic but it does have a metal mount.
Other than that, they have their own uses.
Of course the large aperture stuff is great but a little bit of focal length range is
nice too, to mess around with.
Really based on your creativity in the situation.
Where you go, what you can do with your gear.
So that's about it, hope you enjoyed this video.
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