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Lens adapter for mirrorless

Lens adapter for mirrorless

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Lens adapter for mirrorless

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- Many photographers are tempted to switch to mirrorless cameras, or maybe you already have, but there's also a good chance that any photographer who's thinking about getting a mirrorless camera previously had a digital SLR and so therefore probably has a collection of some lenses for that SLR. Most mirrorless camera systems use a different mount, a different lens mount, than would've been used for the same brand but with a digital SLR. So here, for example, I have a mirrorless camera from Canon, but it has a different lens mount compared to the lenses that I used to be able to use with my Canon digital SLR. These lenses don't attach to this mirrorless body. However, there is a solution and not just for a Canon configuration but for other systems as well, and that is a lens adapter. So I can change my lens mount, essentially, from one system to another, so from a Canon digital SLR in this particular example to…

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