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Equipment & Techniques => Medium Format / Film / Digital Backs – and Large Sensor Photography => Topic started by: dergiman on October 06, 2011, 11:36:06 am

Title: Non-PQ lenses on Hy6/AFi
Post by: dergiman on October 06, 2011, 11:36:06 am

I couldn´t find a definite answer if the old Non-PQ lenses for the SLX and 6000 system do work on the Hy6/AFi camera. The sources are contradictive, some say no and some say yes but with certain restrictions.

Help greatly appreciated.
Philipp

Title: Re: Non-PQ lenses on Hy6/AFi
Post by: Neil Folberg on October 07, 2011, 02:32:27 am

I wish I could say "yes" - but I have an older 350 f5.6 - you can mount it on the AFi, but you can't set the aperture and even wide open I can't get a correct exposure. The only thing I can use it for is to mount it on my cooled astronomical camera, for which it is useful. Really too bad -

Neil

Title: Re: Non-PQ lenses on Hy6/AFi
Post by: dergiman on October 07, 2011, 02:57:57 am

But does it work in manual mode when you set the aperture on the lens?

Title: Re: Non-PQ lenses on Hy6/AFi
Post by: Neil Folberg on October 07, 2011, 07:50:20 am

No.

Title: Re: Non-PQ lenses on Hy6/AFi
Post by: dergiman on October 07, 2011, 08:35:33 am

Not the answer i was hoping for!  :-\ But thanks!

Title: Re: Non-PQ lenses on Hy6/AFi
Post by: ondebanks on October 09, 2011, 06:53:40 am

If you set both shutter speed and aperture manually, will that work? Is the problem that the metering is wrong, or that it won't stop the lens down to the aperture you selected?

How about this: if you set shutter speed manually, and set the aperture wide-open manually (so it doesn't even have to stop down the lens), will that not work?

Ray

Title: Re: Non-PQ lenses on Hy6/AFi
Post by: Neil Folberg on October 09, 2011, 08:19:08 am

I have already tried both of your suggestions without success. Sorry! The camera just won't work with this particular lens. SO unless you have some other uses for these lenses, they do make elegant paper weights. Like I said, I mount mine on an astro-camera.