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PostPosted: Tue Mar 10, 2009 6:15 am    Post subject: My Lenses Reply with quote
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 Wink





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 Wink
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 Very HappyD


PostPosted: Tue Mar 10, 2009 6:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
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... Wink


PostPosted: Tue Mar 10, 2009 7:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
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... Wink



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 Very Happy), 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 Very Happy 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 Very Happy 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 Very Happy
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