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 Posted: Thu Sep 20th, 2018 15:43
GeoffR

 

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I like the idea but! A while back I was asked to test a Pentax ME Super to see if it was worth selling. I tested it against one of my F5 bodies with a 24-70 f2.8 lens. It is only when using a modern AF-S lens on an older camera that one can see just how slow the F5's AF really is. The metering may have been state-of-the-art in 2006 but the D3 and D4 comfortably out perform it today. Let's not talk about frame rate, or focus points.

The idea is attractive but why bother a current generation DSLR will be better in almost every respect.

As far as I am concerned the best use for a film body is to shoot film.