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yinyangbt
Joined: 08 Oct 2010 Posts: 1973 Location: Romania
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Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2011 8:00 pm Post subject: Best T2 mount lens ? |
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yinyangbt wrote:
I have a T2/NEX adapter . I am not familiar with this mount or lenses that used it. What lenses in this mount could match this good sensor ? _________________ Cheers , Teo
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ManualFocus-G
Joined: 29 Dec 2008 Posts: 6622 Location: United Kingdom
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Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2011 8:07 pm Post subject: |
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ManualFocus-G wrote:
There are hundreds! I really like my Vivitar 85/1.8 - it has low contrast but buttery smooth bokeh _________________ Graham - Moderator
Shooter of choice: Fujifilm X-T20 with M42, PB and C/Y lenses
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luisalegria
Joined: 07 Mar 2008 Posts: 6602 Location: San Francisco, USA
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Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2011 8:25 pm Post subject: |
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luisalegria wrote:
As Graham says, many, particularly telephoto primes.
Some of the best -
Tokina 105/2.8
Sankor 135/2.8
Tokina 135/3.5
Tokina 200/4.5
Tokina 300/5.5
All these are pretty common and should be cheap. _________________ I like Pentax DSLR's, Exaktas, M42 bodies of all kinds, strange and cheap Japanese lenses, and am dabbling in medium format/Speed Graphic work. |
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ManualFocus-G
Joined: 29 Dec 2008 Posts: 6622 Location: United Kingdom
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Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2011 9:06 pm Post subject: |
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ManualFocus-G wrote:
Ooh I forgot about Sankor, the 105/2.5 is utterly brilliant _________________ Graham - Moderator
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Lloydy
Joined: 02 Sep 2009 Posts: 7788 Location: Ironbridge. UK.
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Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2011 9:26 pm Post subject: |
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Lloydy wrote:
Don't discount the Soligors, check out the big threads here. There are some gems, there's also a few not so good. I have 3 T2 Soligors, the 135 is good, the 200 is very good but my 35 is very average. But....they were cheap. _________________ LENSES & CAMERAS FOR SALE.....
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luisalegria
Joined: 07 Mar 2008 Posts: 6602 Location: San Francisco, USA
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Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2011 9:47 pm Post subject: |
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luisalegria wrote:
Just to be clear, when we say Sankor or Tokina or Tamron, etc.,, the odds are you will not find them under these names.
In the 1960's almost all of these were sold under merchants brands, like Soligor (Soligor was a trademark used by Allied Impex Co. of New York). There were hundreds of brands, some common some rare. You can find the same lens in 100 brands, in some cases.
To know what you are getting you will need to recognize the design. _________________ I like Pentax DSLR's, Exaktas, M42 bodies of all kinds, strange and cheap Japanese lenses, and am dabbling in medium format/Speed Graphic work. |
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SXR_Mark
Joined: 12 Jun 2010 Posts: 506 Location: England
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Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2011 10:04 pm Post subject: |
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SXR_Mark wrote:
It is obvious from the above comments that you should stick to longer focal length lenses. The registration distance of the T2 mount is 55mm, which means that lenses below, say, 50mm in focal length are likely to be retro-focal (the second nodal point is between the last lens surface and the image plane). When these lenses are likely to have been made. retro-focal designs were not so good. I have a Soligor 28mm f2.8 in T2 mount and it has the optical finesse of the bottom of a Coke bottle. _________________ Olympus OM-D E-M1 for everything |
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luisalegria
Joined: 07 Mar 2008 Posts: 6602 Location: San Francisco, USA
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Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2011 11:19 pm Post subject: |
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luisalegria wrote:
Wide angle SLR lenses (below about 40mm) all have to be retrofocal.
T-mount lenses are not that different than Canon, Nikon or Pentax lenses of the time in this regard.
The T mount also allows wide angle lenses to sit quite deep in the mount, so that their rear elements protrude beyond the back of the mount, just like lenses with a dedicated mount. This is a simple problem in mechanical design.
The real problem with T-mount wide angles is just the fact that they are very early, the technology was not well developed, and, frankly, were made by small companies that could not make them as well as the majors as they had less R&D resources and poorer quality control. There are plenty of 35mm and 28mm T-mount lenses but I personally haven't found a good one.
There is supposed to be a T-mount preset version of the Kino/Kiron 28/2.5; that lens in Auto mount is supposed to be quite good.
There are very few "normal" lenses available in T-mount BTW. I only know of one, Taisei's (Tamron) 58mm f/1.2 (most often found in Taika Harigon brand) of about 1960 some of which were made in fixed mounts and some in T-mount. _________________ I like Pentax DSLR's, Exaktas, M42 bodies of all kinds, strange and cheap Japanese lenses, and am dabbling in medium format/Speed Graphic work. |
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