nikkor zoom lens + brevis adapter

[fabbianni]

Any experience with a nikkor 3.5f zoom lens 18-135mm + brevis + hv20
Here´s the lens:
http://www.dpreview.com/news/0608/06080902nikonafsdx18-135lens.asp
what do u think, will it work well with the brevis ? (to shoot mostly outdoors)


Thanks a lot
JP

[CBarce]

How do you focus this lens??... does not appear to have a focus ring.

[stevewitt]

The link that you provided is for a Digital SLR Lens and you Don't want to use DSLR lenses with 35mm adapters. Only true, manual focus, 35mm Film, SLR lenses. The way I understand it, DigitalSLR lenses create images that are for a electronic sensor that is much smaller than the image target on 35mm cameras. I don't think you'd even fill up the image diffuser/ground glass on one of these adapters with a DSLR lens. Also, you want your lenses to be as fast as you can afford. The faster the better. I wouldn't go above f2.0 but some adapter users have slower lenses that achieve good results.

Can anyone else add to this?:hv20-smilie51:

Here are some zooms to look at:
http://www.keh.com/OnLineStore/ProductList.aspx?Mode=searchproducts&item=0&ActivateTOC2=false&ID=&Size=&BC=NK&BCC=1&CC=7&CCC=2&BCL=&GBC=&GCC=&KW=

And here are some fixed focal lengths (or primes) which are more widely used with adapters
http://www.keh.com/OnLineStore/ProductList.aspx?Mode=searchproducts&item=0&ActivateTOC2=false&ID=&Size=&BC=NK&BCC=1&CC=6&CCC=2&BCL=&GBC=&GCC=&KW=50

[tcindie]

I posted ebay links to several here: http://hv20.com/showpost.php?p=21576&postcount=5

They're mostly primes, but the last one is a zoom. It's f/3.2-4.5, so a little on the slowish side, but not too bad. You'd be hard pressed to find anything faster in a zoom without spending a bunch more money..