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Manual Focus Lenses Forum Subgenre Folks:
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 09, 2020 5:40 pm    Post subject: Manual Focus Lenses Forum Subgenre Folks: Reply with quote

I'd like to make a poll but don't know how, so:

1. Bokehlicious, Fast lenses, Wide open shooters
2. Sellers and dealers
3. Collectors and LBA sufferers (hoarders)
4. Lens testers, visual variant of audiophiles (edge sharpness)
5. Cheap lens is good lens, lens character is important
6. Elite society (expensive lens is good lens)
7. Artists (mistake isn't mistake, there is no bad photo if it is strange enough)
8. Lens theorists and smart-asses, aficionados
9. Niche people (micro, UV, ultra wide, super-tele), rare lenses
10. Ancient lenses
11. Commies (Warsaw pact is best)
12. Jealous folks from AF and smartphone world
13. Nostalgia
14: Tinkerer's Paradise

Some genre overlaps, some genre stand opposite and fight. Please add yours if not listed above.


Last edited by Pancolart on Wed Oct 14, 2020 5:35 am; edited 1 time in total


PostPosted: Fri Oct 09, 2020 6:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Should be multiple choice adding "all of the above" as well...

Although this is akin to listing human qualities we all possess to some degree because we're all human...


PostPosted: Fri Oct 09, 2020 9:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Put me down for for 1,2,3,5, and 10. I'm a cheapass who's never downloaded a lens chart. Wink


PostPosted: Fri Oct 09, 2020 10:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

13: dr jekyll and mr hyde: that is those people who use only modern lenses, but they like to remember those objects, often even poor ones, that they looked in shop windows or read about in magazines when they were young, and that today can be bought for a few coins.


PostPosted: Sat Oct 10, 2020 10:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

You've got to have nostalgia, surely.


PostPosted: Sat Oct 10, 2020 7:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

5 and 7 for me.

Cool


PostPosted: Sun Oct 11, 2020 3:22 am    Post subject: Re: Manual Focus Lenses Forum Subgenre Folks: Reply with quote

3. Collectors and LBA sufferers (hoarders)
... Guilty, but unrepentant! Twisted Evil

4. Lens testers, visual variant of audiophiles (edge sharpness)
... ?? What else is there to do with lenses? Wink

5. Cheap lens is good lens, lens character is important
... Helios 44-2, Helios 44-2 Smile


PostPosted: Sun Oct 11, 2020 8:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

1,3,4(but not for edge sharpness :p),5,7


PostPosted: Sun Oct 11, 2020 9:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

1, 3, 5 and 7.


PostPosted: Sun Oct 11, 2020 8:15 pm    Post subject: Re: Manual Focus Lenses Forum Subgenre Folks: Reply with quote

[quote="Pancolart"]I'd like to make a poll but don't know how, so:

Pancolart wrote:
1. Bokehlicious, Fast lenses, Wide open shooters

Sometimes. Usually with the Minolta AF 2/100, the AF 2.8/200, the AF 2.8/300 and the A900, in b/w mode.

Pancolart wrote:
2. Sellers and dealers

Reminds me to sell some surplus stuff I don't need Wink

Pancolart wrote:

3. Collectors and LBA sufferers (hoarders)

What is LBA? I know GAS, but LBA ... ??

Pancolart wrote:

4. Lens testers, visual variant of audiophiles (edge sharpness)

Oh yeah Wink

Pancolart wrote:

5. Cheap lens is good lens, lens character is important

Rarely.

Pancolart wrote:

6. Elite society (expensive lens is good lens)

Sometimes. Usually true for the mechanical part, though.

Pancolart wrote:

7. Artists (mistake isn't mistake, there is no bad photo if it is strange enough)

No.

Pancolart wrote:

8. Lens theorists and smart-asses, aficionados

I like reading the Nikkor Tales - does it count?

Pancolart wrote:

9. Niche people (micro, UV, ultra wide, super-tele), rare lenses

Does the TS-E 17mm L count? ... I use it quite often - has actually replaced my prevous standard lens, a 20mm superwide ...

Pancolart wrote:

10. Ancient lenses

Very few.

Pancolart wrote:

11. Commies (Warsaw pact is best)

Even less! Simply not available locally - I prefer to buy what I can find here ...

Pancolart wrote:

12. Jealous folks from AF and smartphone world

How dare U !! Wink

Pancolart wrote:

Some genre overlaps, some genre stand opposite and fight. Please add yours if not listed above.

Love to rescue interesting stuff from the wastebins of local stores Wink

Happy shooting Wink

S


PostPosted: Mon Oct 12, 2020 3:06 am    Post subject: Re: Manual Focus Lenses Forum Subgenre Folks: Reply with quote

Me: underdog lens is competitive enough. That's why I am still collecting vivitar / soligor, etc, and use them more than big brands.


PostPosted: Mon Oct 12, 2020 10:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

13 Tinkerer's paradise: give a (digital) future to lenses with coupling mounts that are out of production. Or have no mount at all.


PostPosted: Wed Oct 14, 2020 5:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ultrapix wrote:
13: dr jekyll and mr hyde: that is those people who use only modern lenses, but they like to remember those objects, often even poor ones, that they looked in shop windows or read about in magazines when they were young, and that today can be bought for a few coins.


Cool. So we got 13: Nostalgia and 14: Tinkerer's Paradise


PostPosted: Wed Oct 14, 2020 10:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ernst Dinkla wrote:
... Tinkerer's paradise: ...


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PostPosted: Wed Oct 14, 2020 6:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I guess I would put myself in categories 3 and 13. Mostly I consider myself to be an explorer: I don't collect lenses in order to obtain one example of each. I buy lenses that I think I might find useful and lenses that are unusual, interesting, etc.

Regards, C.


PostPosted: Fri Oct 16, 2020 10:01 pm    Post subject: Re: Manual Focus Lenses Forum Subgenre Folks: Reply with quote

Pancolart wrote:
I'd like to make a poll but don't know how, so:

1. Bokehlicious, Fast lenses, Wide open shooters *Yes*
2. Sellers and dealers
3. Collectors and LBA sufferers (hoarders) *Yes*
4. Lens testers, visual variant of audiophiles (edge sharpness)
5. Cheap lens is good lens, lens character is important *Yes to last half*
6. Elite society (expensive lens is good lens)
7. Artists (mistake isn't mistake, there is no bad photo if it is strange enough) * Artist Yes but still make mistakes that ruin shots *
8. Lens theorists and smart-asses, aficionados *Yes, I do like to compare lens design to lens behaviour *
9. Niche people (micro, UV, ultra wide, super-tele), rare lenses *Yes I do like Macro and wide lenses/shooting*
10. Ancient lenses
11. Commies (Warsaw pact is best)
12. Jealous folks from AF and smartphone world
13. Nostalgia *Yes*
14: Tinkerer's Paradise *Yes I do like to save a lens that was unusable *

Some genre overlaps, some genre stand opposite and fight. Please add yours if not listed above.

Most automated polls are useless for complicated subjects unless you have multiple choice with ability to have 20 choices or have multiple simple polls, as you can see, most of my answers were modifie.

I like the history of lens design, how a breakthrough advanced the whole industry (Retro focus lenses) and then everyone used that breakthrough as a starting point for exploring other designs, or taking lessons learned from one design and applying it to a different design, we are definitely in the golden age of lens design, we now have access to lens designs that would have been amazing 50 years ago and magic 100 years ago.
I definitely like the experimental side of photography, using a lens in a different way than it was intended (enlarger and projector lenses as taking lenses), I definitely like saving an unusable lens and bringing it back to a fully functional lens either by clean and repair or transplanting and or modifying it.

I often think of the history of old lenses and what precious moments or events they helped capture, births, birthdays, weddings, graduations, Christmas mornings,etc... If a lens could have a soul, it brings me some joy in knowing I saved a lens from a dark destiny of the trash, that when I'm done with it someone will still be able to use it to capture their special moments.


PostPosted: Sat Oct 17, 2020 10:09 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well said, Lightshow Like 1 small .


PostPosted: Sat Oct 17, 2020 10:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

1. All backgrounds are ugly.
2. I couldn't eat a whole one.
3. Go on Monsieur, just one more wafer thin filter.
4. Are you sure that's in focus?
5. Has seven kids.
6. Debt collector.
7. Man, I've got to send this thing in for a service.
8. It's what?
9. Lives in very small room.
10. Punched hole in wall.
11. It's red or dead, baby.
12. But is it sharp?
13. Every day was summer I tell you, summer.
14: Any fool can waste.


PostPosted: Sat Oct 17, 2020 12:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The list doesn't contain the only category that counts: photographer, the rest is all just internet nonsense.