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PostPosted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 7:08 pm    Post subject: My worst lens. Reply with quote

I can remember as the worst lens that I had, the voigtlander 1080 mm an ugly monster formed by :

Any voigtlander SRL camera with

135/4 super dinarex

40,5 mm to 27 mm adapter

8 x 30 zeiss

(8 x 135 mm = 1080 mm).

Ugly circular image of 12 mm of radio.

You could did a 400 mm in this form too. (normal 50 mm plus adapter plus 8 x 30)

Think that in contaflex (only the 400 mm -50 mm plus 8 x 30-) whole 24 x 36 mm. negative were setting.

And yours?


PostPosted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 7:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

This is unfair: I can make any lens absolute crap by putting a pair of binoculars or a bad filter in front of it. Smile

My own bad lens? I don't know any yet. Maybe the cheap Walimex 500/8 I tried once. It was utter crap, but it wasn't my lens so I am not really in the position to complain about it.


PostPosted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 7:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I did drop only one lens int paper trash , that was a revuenon zoom, super crap...


PostPosted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 7:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Phoenix 100-400mm F4.5-6.7 Telephoto

Real junque

It's an AF I know, but I'm just getting into MF.


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PostPosted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 7:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Spotmatic wrote:
This is unfair: I can make any lens absolute crap by putting a pair of binoculars or a bad filter in front of it. Smile

My own bad lens? I don't know any yet. Maybe the cheap Walimex 500/8 I tried once. It was utter crap, but it wasn't my lens so I am not really in the position to complain about it.


Yes, of course.

But the monocular 8 x 30 were published by Zeiss and voigtlander (at that moment both the same, think) like the form that their cams could have a 400 and/or 1080 mm lens with a zeiss attachment.

It was an "official" combination, not my idea. For that reason I consider this "combo" like one lens.


PostPosted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 7:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think all of my really poor performing lenses had loosy or twisted lens element. I was quite disappointed by performance of many retrofocal lenses under 30mm.


PostPosted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 9:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Soligor 3.5/35-140 (My worst lens ever! With a distance!), Tamron Twin-Tele 5.5/225 (in the twin set-up), Revuenon-Special 2.8/35 (I had two copies and both were equally bad) and Auto Reflecta 1.7/55 (I have never seen such a bad "50" before and afterwards, perhaps there was something wrong with this lens).

Another really crap lens was a Tokina AF 28-80.

The thing is, I normally like Soligor and Tokina lenses and I have seen excellent versions but also these two terrible ones - abyssmal!


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PostPosted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 9:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Oh yes, I thought about MF lenses only and of course then it's hard to name bad lenses Smile

But my worst lens undoubtedly was the Tamron 28-200 AF lens. It was just too soft to be useful on an APS-C camera.


PostPosted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 9:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

My worst lens?
Probably the Sigma 10-20 autofocus: worst corner image quality that I ever met. Muddy up to f/11
The lens was very useful on APS-C however. Only way to really shoot wide. But forget about geometry. Rolling Eyes


PostPosted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 9:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Samyang 100-500mm lens. Could not get a sharp photo at all. No matter the setting or distance. Every photo was like you had smeared Vaseline on the front element.


PostPosted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 10:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Two lenses are sharing the end of my list.

My first 135 was a Makinon with a strange close-focussing mechanism. The quality of the Makinon seemed more like a no-focussing mechanism, i have not achieved one really sharp shot with it. At last it was replaced by a Takumar 2.8/105mm that is still in my collection.

The other worst lens was a Pentor 28mm that performed not quite as one would expect even from a cheap wideangle. It seemed not to perform at all, but at the time it was the only wideangle i could afford. I finally got rid of it exchanging it for a Tokina 28mm(it got some € 3 off the price of the Tokina)

To make sure that it was no incidental lack of quality i tried a few Pentor 28's at the camerafair in Houten recently and they were all as crappy as the one i had.


PostPosted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 10:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yes!!!

The Tammy 28-200 a truly 'soft' lens, and one that extended like an elephant's trunk, from quite reasonable to plain embarrassing - Pentax badged this lens too, and I had both versions, they scored 1.7 on the photo.de reviews scale - and almost the lowest MTF ever recorded!!!!

So.. unless you know a better candidate? lol Smile

Doug.

PS - Oddly the Tammy LD/IF 70-300mm AF is an unsung hero in the value / performance stakes, so we all know they could do better!



Spotmatic wrote:
Oh yes, I thought about MF lenses only and of course then it's hard to name bad lenses Smile

But my worst lens undoubtedly was the Tamron 28-200 AF lens. It was just too soft to be useful on an APS-C camera.


PostPosted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 11:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

nemesis101 wrote:
Yes!!!

The Tammy 28-200 a truly 'soft' lens, and one that extended like an elephant's trunk, from quite reasonable to plain embarrassing - Pentax badged this lens too, and I had both versions, they scored 1.7 on the photo.de reviews scale - and almost the lowest MTF ever recorded!!!!

So.. unless you know a better candidate? lol Smile

Doug.

PS - Oddly the Tammy LD/IF 70-300mm AF is an unsung hero in the value / performance stakes, so we all know they could do better!



Spotmatic wrote:
Oh yes, I thought about MF lenses only and of course then it's hard to name bad lenses Smile

But my worst lens undoubtedly was the Tamron 28-200 AF lens. It was just too soft to be useful on an APS-C camera.


I had a Tamron LD 70-300 and it was a great performer. Wonderful closeups and long distance. I agree with your assessment 100%.


PostPosted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 12:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Orio wrote:
My worst lens?
Probably the Sigma 10-20 autofocus: worst corner image quality that I ever met. Muddy up to f/11
The lens was very useful on APS-C however. Only way to really shoot wide. But forget about geometry. Rolling Eyes


I did use it one times if I remember as well for my eyes was okay Rolling Eyes Laughing


PostPosted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 6:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Attila wrote:
Orio wrote:
My worst lens?
Probably the Sigma 10-20 autofocus: worst corner image quality that I ever met. Muddy up to f/11
The lens was very useful on APS-C however. Only way to really shoot wide. But forget about geometry. Rolling Eyes


I did use it one times if I remember as well for my eyes was okay Rolling Eyes Laughing


Yes, it was an OK lens for the purpose.Smile
Fact is, I never bought really bad lenses. I always avoided them. So there are surely worst lenses than the Sigma, but I never used them. Laughing


PostPosted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 6:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Focal 2.8/135 - between other lenses when I purchased "camera & lenses bag", Focal 4/200 T2 received as gift, Tokina AF 2.8-4.6/28-70 - my first purchase after receiving Pentax K10D body


PostPosted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 4:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The worst lens I've ever used was some Underground-branded 80-200 f4.5 in OM mount. It was soft at all apertures, soft at all focal lengths, and couldn't even reach infinity focus properly. I tore it apart one day as a learning experience and kept the front element to use as a diopter.

Another one I should probably mention is the Canon EF 70-210 f4 push-pull. Pretty awful wide open, soft and rife with ugly CA in OOF areas.


PostPosted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 5:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Some remarks to the Tamron 28-200:
There are many different versions of this lens, so please do not put them all into one drawer!

I had the chance to compare an AF 28-200 and an MF 28-200.

The Tamron 3.8-5.6/28-200 Asph. LF (IF) as the MF-lens and the Tamron 3.8-5.6/28-200 AF Asph. XR (IF) as the AF-lens.

None of these lenses is soft. The newer AF-Tamron is a little sharper but the "older" MF-Tamron is not much behind it! As far as personality is concerned, I would prefer the "older" MF-version, the AF-Tamron can be sterile sometimes. To be honest, I guess that these are some of the best "Superzoom" lenses you can find!

Actually, I really like both 28-200 since either one is better than my even newer (and much more expensive) Tamron 28-300 ever was! Although that one was a "digitally optimized" version.

The only "problem" I had was the 28mm wide end which equals about 42mm on a Nikon/Fuji crop cam (with which I used them). A lens that offer a zoom range from 42 to 300 is not really useful for me, nor for my dad who owns the AF-version. (He will replace it with an 18-200 soon for short one-lens trips.)


PostPosted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 7:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Orio wrote:
Probably the Sigma 10-20 autofocus: worst corner image quality that I ever met. Muddy up to f/11
The lens was very useful on APS-C however. Only way to really shoot wide. But forget about geometry. Rolling Eyes


That is so true! Evil or Very Mad

It is my worst lens as well, I never use it under f/11 where it is still quite weak on the corners - the only good thing being the 10mm really...if Nikon only made more of the 13/5.6 back then for us manual-on-dx-users Laughing


PostPosted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 9:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

my worst lens is the nikkor 55:3.5


PostPosted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 10:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I don't think I have one now. I have gotten rid of the lenses I didn't like. The worst lens I ever had I think was a Tamron 28-200mm AF lens.


PostPosted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 11:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

poilu wrote:
my worst lens is the nikkor 55:3.5


Shocked Shocked


PostPosted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 12:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

poilu wrote:
my worst lens is the nikkor 55:3.5


Seems you never took any bad ones if this was worst.


PostPosted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 12:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

My mamiya/sekor 1.4/50mm. It was too good. So desirable in fact my ex-gf stole it! Laughing

~Marc


PostPosted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 1:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

My worst lens is the POS kit lens that came with my EOS Kiss-F. Such a POS that I don't even know what it is. Some generic 18-50. OIS is nice and AF is fast (but that's probably the Canon body, not the lens), but that's about it. I'm so unimpressed with it that I don't even consider it part of my lens arsenal. Good thing I'm getting rid of it soon, along with the Kiss-F, as part of my 5D fund Smile