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rawhead
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 Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2009 6:15 am Post subject: My Lenses |
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rawhead wrote:
So here's what I have at the moment. Not all are MF, but the majority are. A couple of lenses are missing (FA 31mm f1.8 Lim, currently being serviced for FF, and the Rebel XS kit lens used to take the shot 
You can click on the link and jump to my Flickr page to check what all the lenses actually are (mouse over the picture).
Lenses that are currently en route:
Flektogon 35/2,4 (from Attila)
Industar-50 50/3,5
Industar-50-2 50/3,5
Helios-44 (13 blade) 58/2
Helios-44M-6 58/2
Zeiss Ultron 50/1,8
Volna-9 50/2,8 (just bought today!)
Biometar 80/2,8 (P6)
Flektogon 50/4 (P6, yes another one
Pentacon 300/4
So, I'm heavily skewed around the 50mm mark :-DDD
I guess I can work on the 135, 200mm range. To be completely honest, I can't get too excited about the wider end of things, just because the 12-24 is pretty much awesome. What do you guys think?
That was a rhetorical question  D
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Spotmatic
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Spotmatic wrote:
Great set of lenses! But you'll only like the wider end if you have the right body to use them on. There's no point in using older WA lenses on a K20D because it is an APS-C camera. The crop kills everything wide.
For this, I got the Canon 5D. But I still like my K20D and K10D more...
If I've seen it right, you also have the SMC Pentax-F 50mm f/1.7. Great lens! I have most of the F-series primes...
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Pentax K-5 + Pentax 645 + Canon 5D + Bessa RF 10,5cm Heliar, and a 'little' bag full of MF lenses. The lens list is * here *.
My fast 80s: Asahi-Kogaku Takumar 83mm f/1.9 - Super-Takumar 85mm f/1.9 - FA 77mm f/1.8 Limited - Cyclop 85/1.5 (Helios-40 innards) - Komura 80mm f/1.8 - Meyer Görlitz Primoplan 7,5cm 1:1.9 - Carl Zeiss Jena 80mm f/1.8 Pancolar - Canon 85mm f/1.8 S.S.C. - Canon 85mm f/1.2 S.S.C. Aspherical |
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rawhead
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rawhead wrote:
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Great set of lenses! But you'll only like the wider end if you have the right body to use them on. There's no point in using older WA lenses on a K20D because it is an APS-C camera. The crop kills everything wide.
For this, I got the Canon 5D. But I still like my K20D and K10D more...
If I've seen it right, you also have the SMC Pentax-F 50mm f/1.7. Great lens! I have most of the F-series primes... |
I hear you. And I've all but committed to buying one FF cam or another in the not-too-distant future (likely a Canon, if for nothing else for the TS-E 17mm f4L ), so that's fine. Also, you could argue that the wider end is just as, if not more, important on APS-Cs precisely because of that crop factor.
Also, I have heard that some legendary primes like Flektogon 20/2.8 can be really ugly near the edges on a full frame digital, due to issues in telecentricity––something that can be avoided, albeit via croppping, on APS-C.
Awww, Ok, maybe I'm just trying to come up with good reasons to spark my interest in wider MF primes I think the bottom line is that I probably don't need it, and for what I want, the 12-24 would more than suffice.
And yes, great eye, that is an F 50/1,7, which I just picked up yesterday locally through Craig's List, for a sweet $40 I've been meaning to pick up a good AF 50, either an F or FA, 1,4 or 1,7, for those indoor shots that require rapid firing. As much as I enjoy my MF 50mm primes (as you can see above), some times I just want the AF to do the hard work for me, so that I can actually concentrate on capturing a moment, instead of nailing the focus
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