Article 4 of 4 in the Film Vs. Digital Series
Back to the headline, YES, you can use film lenses on digital cameras, and they do offer some advantages!
The biggest advantage is sharpness. It’s not that the lens properties magically change under some digital potteresque spell. Rather, the advantage is (again) a product of the small size of digital [...]

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Article 3 of 4 in the Film Vs. Digital Series 
Apertures are relatively standard across all lenses and measurements transfer from film to digital all the same. The aperture number correlates with the size of a lens “opening” and is often called the “f-stop”, or just “f” followed by a number as in “f2.8 or f3.5”. Essentially, the [...]

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Article 2 of 4 in the Film Vs. Digital Series 
Focal length is measured in millimeters (mm), and is standard across all lenses, digital and film. However, because of the smaller sensor on digital cameras, all lenses have a different “magnification factor” on these cameras when compared with film cameras.
To give an example, using the film SLR as [...]

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Article 1 of 4 in the Film Vs. Digital Series
Lens-speak can be a frustrating thing when you’re starting out in photography. When it comes to the camera lens, most beginners find themselves caught in the middle of that vortex of words: aperture, ISO, depth of field, etc… but it’s not as hopeless as it may seem. [...]

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