No pictures yet- just lenses

cdf294 · Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2010 3:43 am Post subject: No pictures yet- just lenses

Hi everyone.
Been reading these forums for only a week and signed up today. Great forum BTW.
Since lurking on this forum, I can see the writing on the wall- 3 lenses already.
Anyway, I picked up 3 lenses today for $60 and hope I may find that one or all will give satisfactory, OK, maybe better than satisfactory results.
I figured I will see what the cheap stuff is capable of before chasing bigger money options.

I've seen very little info about these lenses that I picked up and wanted to know if anyone has any experience with them.
The lenses are a EBC Fujinon 28/3.5, EBC Fujinon 100/2.8, and a Yashinon-DS 50/1.9.

Thanks for any input you may have, good or bad. Now I just need that darned adapter.

calvin83 · Joined: 12 Apr 2009 Posts: 7555 Location: Hong Kong

ManualFocus-G · Expire: 2014-11-24

The yashinon is a very interesting lens. Stop it down to f2.8 for decent sharpness. The lens produces some nice swirly bokeh, if It's the lens I'm thinking of Smile

martinsmith99 · Expire: 2013-11-18

ManualFocus-G · Expire: 2014-11-24

aoleg · Joined: 22 Feb 2008 Posts: 1387 Location: Berlin, DE

The two EBC Fujinons are extremely nice lenses, both of them. The 28mm is sharp all over, very contrasty, superb colors and almost no flare. The 100mm is superb; I have a non-EBC version, and it's just great as a portrait lens. Sharp and contrasty even wide open. The EBC lens is supposedly even better. You won't be disappointed. Shall you decide to sell them, the 28mm can easily fetch $60-80, and the 100mm can run as high as $150.

ramiller500 · Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2010 1:53 pm Post subject:

I've had good results with the Yashinon DS 50/1.9 lens. Interestingly, there was also a Yashinon DS 50/2 lens, which I believe inherited its optical design from the earlier Yashinon DX series.

Exactly why a 50/1.9 was created is not clear to me, but the mounted 50/1.9 extends a lesser distance into the camera body. There are instances now where a 50/2 mounted via adapter onto a DSLR will have mirror interference whereas a 50/1.9 will not.

See http://www.panoramaplanet.de/comp/

indianadinos · Expire: 2011-12-05

aoleg · Joined: 22 Feb 2008 Posts: 1387 Location: Berlin, DE

...or one could have Yashica ML 50/2 and 50/1.9 for a song, both much better lenses in contrast, flare control and color reproduction than the earlier Yashinons.

cdf294 · Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2010 8:37 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the responses and opinions- I appreciate it.
Sounds like I might have done pretty well for $60.

I hope to have an adapter in the next week or so and then I can try them out.

indianadinos- would love to see some samples when/if you get time.

Thanks again everyone!