Best photos with your worst MF lens

[antico]

Well, these pictures were taken with a "HQC MAGINON-SERIE G MC 35-70 f3.5-4.5", what a name.

Pentax k5iis

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[marcusBMG]

Hardly qualifies as "worst".

This was with a promura CP HiLux 80-200mm, just another anonymous MF ?1980-ish zoom of unknown parentage. But like the majority of lenses, stopped down a bit there's not too much to complain about (tho' this was ~120mm, f4, fill flash).

[iangreenhalgh1]

Bell & Howell (Osawa) 3.8/70-150 on Sony a850. A mediocre lens at best but stopped down to f11 and shot at or near it's MFD it could produce nice images.

[hoanpham]

Nice!
My worst lens is not sharp, stuck aperture, and must focus by foot

[iangreenhalgh1]

Old 1960s Sun 60-130 zoom on Sony a850.

[antico]

lovely shots iangreenhalgh1

[memetph]

Unfortunately I can only participate to "my worst pictures with my best lens ".

[iangreenhalgh1]

Cheers. I have had much worse lenses than the two I posted here, but those are the worst two I currently have.

[ManualFocus-G]

[Attila]

looks like no bad lens exists..

[Pontus]

My worst lens is an AF lens so I can't post here

[CBokeh]

[Nordentro]

[WNG555]

Ummm, these images look to rival the images coming out of my best lenses!


Goes to show just how good your skills are!

My worst lens is a Tokina RMC 100-300 f/5.6 zoom. Can't produce a sharp focused image at all. No pics, all deleted.

2nd worst lens is also Tokina...Vivitar 100-300 f/5 Close Focus two-touch zoom.
Is there a coincidence? This one isn't as poor, but can't achieve that last step of sharpness required for a satisfactory photo.
What is salvageable, requires a lot of processing to save.

Vivitar 100-300mm f/5 C.F. by wNG 555, on Flickr
DSC05528 - Vivitar 100-300 N [pre] by wNG 555, on Flickr
pENTHOUSE sUITE 2 by wNG 555, on Flickr
rAINBOW sENTINEL by wNG 555, on Flickr

[antico]

WNG555, 2# looks really nice

[WNG555]

[cooltouch]

Judging by the quality of most of the photos I see here, I find it hard to believe you're posting images taken with your wortst mf lens.

I don't really know which is my worst. I have a bunch of off-brand lenses I've wound up with from kits I've bought and I haven't even tried shooting with most of them. But I can recall one lens I bought a while back out of curiousity. It is a Soligor 95-310 one-touch zoom, 80s vintage. I was deeply unimpressed by the quality of the photos I got with it. They were simply awful. Let's see if I can find any . . . Ah, yes, here we are.

This shot doesn't look all that bad, right?


But wait -- let's look at a crop of the above image:


Yuech!

Pssst! Know anybody who wants a minty Soligor 95-310mm f/5.6 for cheap?

[vanylapep]

From one of my cheapest lens (50$). Meyer Orestron 50/1.4



This one i personally like due to painting like effect.. cheap chinese 40$ cine lens Fujian 35/1.7 CCTV