

These SLR lenses, made by Carl Zeiss in cooperation with Yashica, were designed for the Yashica and Contax C/Y mount 35mm cameras. There really doesn’t exist a line of affordable vintage lenses that I love more than the Contax Zeiss lenses. W-Nikkor-C 3.5cm f/2.5 LTM and W-Nikkor-C 3.5cm f/3.5 LTMīest Use Cases: Mirrorless, Canon EF ( Simmod or plain adapter), Nikon F, and Pentax K ( Leitax) Credit: KEH Camera.Nikon Nikkor AI 45mm f/2.8 P & Contax Zeiss 2.8/45mm Tessar.The significantly thinner sensor stack of the Nikon Z mount allows it to perform much better than, say, Sony E mount - about 1.0-1.5mm versus roughly 2-3mm respectively, according to Kolari Vision and Roger Cicala in Petapixel’s previous article on sensor stack thickness. However, some non-Leica cameras perform better in this regard than others. This can produce with images that have soft, smeary corner performance and color shifts due to the shorter exit pupil distance and angle of incidence of wider angle lenses. In this Guide, I have tried to avoid wider (wider than 35mm) focal length rangefinder lenses, as these typically do not work well with many non-Leica mirrorless cameras due to the sensor stack on digital sensors - which film, of course, did not have - and the lack of off-set microlenses.
#Interchangeable lens camera retro design full
Some will only work with their full focus range on mirrorless cameras - this is noted when it is the case.

Some of these lenses will work on both DSLRs (though this may exclude or have caveats for certain DSLRs, like Nikon F, due to flange distance differences) and mirrorless cameras.
