>>4239582I don't have any of my vintage lenses chipped, so I don't have access to any advanced focus aids on anything.
The fuji has a couple of extremely basic features that make manual shooting with vintage lenses a smoother loop. Basically, it's about making the zoom verification a nicer part of the workflow. On the fuji, you click the little thumb scrollwheel and it takes you into zoom mode. When you're zoomed in, focus peaking is still on. Scrolling that same dial lets you change zoom levels - and the camera will remember it. Half-pressing the shutter takes you right back to the full picture, which feels very natural for me.
So I focus in full view, thumb click to check zoom at my selected level, half-press the shutter to get back to full composition, click the shutter to capture. It's an easy, natural flow.
On the Canon (I have an R6 and an RP) you press the little zoom button on the camera. Focus peaking shuts off, which is not really a huge deal, but also why. Say, you're happy with the focus. Now you have to press the zoom button again, to zoom in even more, then again to get back to full picture. So you end up always doing three thumb clicks just to check your focus. Of course it's doable, but it just doesn't have that natural flow. You do have god-tier autofocus with Canon lenses, at least.
Pictured is my favorite walking around/travel setup. File info says I snapped this six years ago. The exact same configuration is sitting on my shelf right now, and I took it out last week. That focal reducer cost me more than the camera and lens combined lol (which is to say, $400, nothing crazy), but well worth it. The camera itself cost me $300, and I got great use out of it. Feels like fuji treats its customer with respect in some ways. I remember when I got my RP, and was shocked it didn't switch to electronic shutter when 1/4000 wasn't enough like my old cheap fuji does. Mind boggling.
