Your best 10 primes for under 2K?

[uhoh7]

This jumped into my mind tonite:

"Your best 10 primes for under 2K?"

If possible all should be owned by you now or once (but "wish" prime OK if noted)

All different focal lengths

Any mount.

Prices: going rate today (or past year) for a good working copy with clean glass.

Try to stay under 2KUSD--but any list accepted.

Cudos to: Best Value Set
Best Set under 2K
Envious sneers to Best Set Period: but you must own them.

Here is my entry, which I expect to be annihilated.

nFD 20mm 2.8
nFD 24mm f/2
Kiron 28 f/2
FD 35 SSC Concave f/2
Konica 40mm f/1.8
Pentax-SMC 50mm 1.4
Canon FL 55mm F/1.2
Tokina AT-X 90mm F/2.5
Vivitar 105mm Macro (kiron)
Soligar 135mm F/2
Nikon 180mm ED

OK that's 11 damn it (and I left out a nikkor 55mm f/2.8 cause I already had a 55 for low light and two other macros)
Cost for the set today (barring incredible deals) 1350 to 1600

I know I know, it's not very exotic, but this is a real set I've put together in the last 6 weeks with much help here. Now lets see some truly great sets!

Extra extra credit for inexpensive sets.

Cheers

[Attila]

I think a few people have lens above 2K here so don't need to restrict at all.

[Laurentiu Cristofor]

@uhoh7: I thought you meant each lens being up to 2k, before I realized you meant the set must be under 2k.

2k is so arbitrary - let's make it $100, then we're talking real buying skill

[uhoh7]

[RioRico]

I won't add up the BEST<2K (whether in USD, EUR, YEN, whatever) list, but I can definitely do the BEST CHEAPEST PRIME list:

Sigma Z 24/2.8 -- US$3
Tamron BBAR 28/2.5 -- US$4
Vivitar-Tokina 35/2.8 -- US$3
Yashica ML 50/1.4 -- US$10
Sears-Tomioka 55/1.4 -- US$2.25
Takumar 55/1.8 -- US$7.50
Nikkor 85/2 -- US$9
Vivitar-Komine 90/2.8 macro -- US$3
Sears-Tomioka 135/2.8 -- US$2.25
Focal-Chinon 200/3.5 -- US$8

Total: US$52, shipping included. OK, so I have two 55's on the list, but they were both SUCH good deals... and I omitted some 50's that were almost as good, as well as free and junky lenses. I also omitted everything that I have sold. You don't want to hear about the Canon FD SSC's that cost me US$9 each, eh?

[Esox lucius]

wide to normal
Nikkor 24/2.8 Ai-S
Nikkor 28/2.8 Ai-S
Nikkor 35/2 Ai-S

Nikkor 50/1.8 Ai-S
Nikkor 50/1.4 Ai/Ai-S
Nikkor 50/1.2 Ai-S

tele
Nikkor 85/1.8 N
Nikkor 105/2.5 Ai
Nikkor 135/3.5 Ai
Nikkor 180/2.8 Ai-S ED

Macro
Nikkor 55/2.8 Ai-S Micro
Nikkor 105/2.8 Ai-S Micro

+ you'll still have a lot of money to buy something else

[LucisPictor]

Let's say that's €2000,- OK?

Vivitar 3.5/17 - €120,-
Nikkor-N.C 2.8/24 - €100,-
MIR-24N 2/35 - €80,-
Leica Summicron-R 2/50 - €150,-
Nikkor-S.C 1.2/55 - €250,-
Nikkor-H 1.8/85 - €150,-
Leica Elmar 4/180 - €150,-

Hey, that's only €1000,-
So, you could also get a used EOS 5D.

Ah, only lenses? And exactly 10?

OK, add those:

Zenitar 2.8/16
Steinheil Quinaron 2.8/35
Takumar 2.8/105

And still under €2k!

OK, you want to spend €2k?
Leica Elmarit 2.8/28
Leica Elmarit 2.8/35
Leica Summilux 1.4/50
Leica Summicron 2/90
Leica Elmarit 2.8/180

Wait a minute, that's only five lenses... D'oh!

[BenediktW]

Interesting question.

For my taste, we would arrive here:

- Nikkor 20mm F4 Ai (180€)
- Mamiya Sekor SX 28mm F2,8 (100€)
- Voigtländer Ultron 40mm F2,0 SLII (300€)
- Nikkor 50mm F2 Ai (60€)
- Micro Nikkor-P 55mm F3,5 (80€)
- Nikkor 85mm F1,8 AiS (170€) [or the AF-D-version, 250€]
- Mamiya M645 Sekor-C 105-210mm F4,5 ULD (165€)
- Mamiya Sekor SX 135mm F2,8 (50€)
- Nikkor 200mm F4 Ai (100€)

Oh, this is only round 1.200€.

So to really use the budget, one might trade the 85mm F1,8 for the 1,4 version, and add more choice in this focal length region: Nikkor 105mm F2,5 AiS and Leica Summicron-R 90mm F2. With the last one, I don't have any personal experience, but I have seen extremely convincing samples.

[spleenone]

Hard to define price but say that I got this whole pack under 2K usd? (cca and progressively, indeed. Not at once =)

35mm format

Nikkor 28/2 Ais
Nikkor 105/2.5 Ais
Nikkor 135/2.8 q.c.
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Flektogon 20/4
Pancolar mc 50/1.8
Helios 85/1.5
Sonnar mc 135/3.5
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Canon ssc 50/1.4

6x6 format

Biometar mc 80/2.8
Sonnar mc 180/2.8

...and love them all for specialty what they give to photos.

[hexi]

Nice collections.

I noticed that the more lenses i have, the less i shoot with. So now i think i'm done ( until next year ) and i don't even have 10 lenses

so far in order of prices :

ZE 50mm Planar 431€
1.2 Nikkor, about 350€
C/Y Planar 50mm 200 something €

that was the "high" category, now let's go a bit down by 200€

Jupiter 9 94€
Biotar 66€
Helios 77 50€ new

not cheap enough ? well this is my best :

Takumar 55mm 25€ ( from this forum, Irish seller )


Until i buy , surely one day the 85 ZE Planar, those are my treasures.

Notice that this late alone would cost about the same as the lenses i mentioned, and whose are very good !!

[gaeger]

Is this the price WE paid or the going price on ebay/craigslist etc? Very different things I suspect! Here's my list:

Nikkor 20mm f3.5 AIS
Nikkor-UD 20mm f3.5
Nikon-S 35mm f2.8
Nikon Series E 50mm f1.8
Nikkor-S 50mm f1.4
Micro-Nikkor 55mm f2.8 AIS
Nikkor 85mm f1.8 NAI
Nikkor 135mm f3.5 AI
Nikkor 200mm f4 AIS
Nikkor 300mm f4.5 ED-IF

I'm way, way below the limit if going by price paid.

[Laurentiu Cristofor]

[uhoh7]

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I'm way under 2K till now but I think I'll reach this limit soon (for all my lenses, not just primes)

Olympus Zuiko Auto-Macro 50mm f/3.5 (~€65)
Olympus Zuiko Auto-T 200mm f/4 MC (~€50)
Olympus Zuiko Auto-T 135mm f/2.8 (~€70)
Olympus Zuiko Auto-W 28mm f/2.8 MC (~€50)
Olympus Zuiko Auto-S 50mm f/1.4 (~€70)
Carl Zeiss Tessar 50mm f/2.8 T (~€35)
Industar-61L/Z 50mm f/2.8 (~€55)
Helios 44-2 58mm f/2 Valdai (~€25)
Tair-3C 300mm f4.5 (~€45)
Mir-1B 37mm f/2.8(~€45)

[uhoh7]

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[uhoh7]

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