tony

I often read and see examples of this adaptations done by the many followers of this trend and I have done some adaptive photography myself.
 
I wasn’t particularly struck by the quality and practical use of it so I sort of gave it up although I might do some more in future.
 
Obviously one cane take pictures with adapted lenses as many do but I was wondering if there was some inherent problem in doing so.
 
It turns out there is.
 
 
According to Mr. Takashi Ueno in his interview given to the Fujifilm Blog he says the following:
 
http://fujifilm-blog.com/2015/06/30/interview-with-mr-takashi-ueno-from-fujifilm-tokyo-why-dont-fujifilm-make-full-frame-dslr/
 
“...Firstly, the angle of light that film and imaging sensors can receive differ from each other. Film can receive light at the slanted angle of up to 45 degrees without any problem, but in case of the digital camera, the light needs to be as perpendicular to the sensor as possible. Slanted angle light causes mixed colors and therefore the real colors sometimes cannot be reproduced. In order to receive the light perpendicular to the sensor, it is important to make the rear glass element on each lens as big as possible to put the light beams parallel from the outlet of the light to the sensor. Finally, the back-focus distance should be shortened as much as possible to eliminate the degradation in image quality..."

crater lake  x-e2 14mm 2.8