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PostPosted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 8:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Abbazz, can you give me 10 at least 6 MP size images taken with this lens? I would put them into mflenses.com/gallery. If yes I will send you an ftp access to upload them. Many thanks in advance!


PostPosted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 1:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Attila wrote:
Abbazz, can you give me 10 at least 6 MP size images taken with this lens? I would put them into mflenses.com/gallery.


OK, as soon as I have a little time to dig into my old files...

Cheers!

Abbazz


PostPosted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 6:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Many thanks!


PostPosted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 8:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
LucisPictor wrote:

@Soligor: Hi! Welcome to this great forum!
Looking at you nick I understand that you like Soligor lenses. I also have got some really good ones. Could you give a list of you collection, please?

Hi, LucisPictor!
Shake hands first.
Here is my list: 28/2 C/D, 35/2 C/D, 100/2, 135/2, 85/1.5, 500-800/8-12 Mirror CD, 300/5.6 Mirror C/D, 90-140/2.8 (Soligor miranda), 35-70/2.5-3.5 and two dual focus lenses. I certainly have too more lenses than I need for taking pictures.
peterqd wrote:
Hi Soligor, thanks for posting and welcome to our friendly forum.

soligor wrote:
There were 3 third party high-end lines from the third party. Soligor CD, Sigma XQ and Vivitar Series 1. Of course Vivitar was the leader.


Don't you rate the Tamron SP lenses in this league?

Thanks to all you guys. this forum is great.
I confused a little here by say "there were 3 third parties..." The SP and At-X were mostly in 1980's and the XQ and CD were in 1970's. So when I was talking the Sigma XQ I was really thinking the big ones in 1970's. The SP and AT-X were very descent lines of course.
Tamron SP came after a few years they introduced the Adaptall mounts. The made plain lenses such as 28/2.8 135/2.8 200/3.5 before the SP showed up. I guess they were just trying to sophisticate the design. The same thing happened to Sigma. Sigma claimed that they had made 700 YS mount lenses in different kind/brand before the XQ lenses. Adaptall was a more advanced universal mount comparing YS and that is probably why SP were late.
For Tokina, I guess in 1970's they were making lenses for others and in 1980's they made the first batch AT-X from customers' designs such like 90/2.5 for Vivitar and 28-85 which is believed similar to Minolta. They probably made most Soligor C/D lenses also. There were many manual At-X actually. I have 35-70/2.8 and 60-120/2.8 both were manual. Instead of gold rings they had orange rings as a mark for AT-X.
Vivitar was the only one as a strong competetor in both decades and some their 1970's product passed to earlier 1980's. The first generation were 28/1.9, 24-48/3.8, 35-85/2.8, 90/2.5, 135/2.3, 200/3, 90-180/4.5, 70-210 and 600 800 solidcat. The next generation had 105/2.5 and 450/4.5 solidcat but did not have any fast constant zooms.
The Tamron 70-150/2.8 that Abbazz showed is a very rare lens, it is also claimed as an Macro although the magnification is rather medium. I call it "microsoft'. There are two other SP manual lenses about same rare, 180/2.5 (35 years) and 350/5.6 RF. Both are very good image qualities. There is an autofocus 90/2.5 macro which is obviously rare. If you really like rare rather than high end, in 1973 Tamron made 8 "satin finished" lenses which were just plain specification lenses in their earlier adaptall days but silver paint finished. In mint condition these lenes are very beautiful.


PostPosted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 8:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Interesting lens list, can you publish some pictures taken with the best ones?


PostPosted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 8:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
@Soligor: interesting list and excellent information. Thanks!


PostPosted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 9:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Attila wrote:
Interesting lens list, can you publish some pictures taken with the best ones?

As I said I currently do not have a good scanner DSLR. Sorry.


PostPosted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 9:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Sorry I forgot that.
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