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All three of my bodies (X-E2, X-T4, GFX100S II) have shoot without lenses enabled and they have all had it set since I bought them. No harm in it at all. Just remember to set the focal length when you fit a manual lens with no electronics otherwise the IBIS (if you have it) goes nuts. I regularly use vintage film lenses from Minolta, Zeiss, Mamiya, Rollei and others on my X mounts along with more modern manual focus stuff from TTArtisans. I also use Nikon AF-S lenses with a Fringer so the world is your oyster! Vintage lenses can be an absolute bargain too - For example the Zeiss 135 f/35 in M42 is as cheap as chips and very sharp as is the excellent Minolta 35-70 Macro (which is also rebadged Leica).

GRACKLE! 70-300 at 300mm, xt5.

Practicing handheld shots, panning with slower shutter speeds to show motion and still freeze the subject details...........I got these down to 1/20 and 1/15 sec, 150-600 at 150mm, xt5. Fun to try.

Trap Pond State Park, DE.......cypress trees on a calm day. 16-80mm.

these were better

couple more

Heavily cropped ospreys..........good shots, just too far away. 150-600mm.

Ocean City MD near Northside Park. 70-300.

I guess they're not insects........Indian River, DE on the beach, 70-300 I think.

A couple from Cape Henlopen, dreary day, dreary photos.

ok, one more, not sure if this was stretching or some sort of ritual.........

couple more

a few from Cape Henlopen and DE, 150-600mm horrible light.

(Open Thread) Not a winter landscape, but still cold.

No - I don’t think so - it means you can take pictures if you remove the lens completely - but I’m not sure that is a problem

I was after a manual 35mm lens for my Fujifilm lineup and there's a sea of them out there. I own vintage Olympus 35mm & a Leica Leitz Summicron 35mm. But they are heavy and pretty big with the adapters. So I got a used 7artisans 35mm1.2 mark2 for 80 euros. After just a few minutes with it I was in love. It’s by far the best manual lens I've tried. Great built, small, smooth focus ring and great optically. It optically beats all my vintage optically from Konicam Olympus and Leitz/Leica. I find it optically better than the new Voigtländer 35mm 1.2 nokton X from f1.2 to f2. The rendering is old school but the sharpness is there. Looks great to. Here on my XT2 SOOC F1.4