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Which lens (lenses) you would never sell?
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 14, 2021 7:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Asahi Takumar 100mm 1:3.5
Astro Berlin 800mm 1:5
Astro Berlin 1000mm 1:6.3
Carl Zeiss Mirotar 500mm 1:4.5
Carl Zeiss Jena Spiegleobjektiv 500mm 1:4
Carl Zeiss Jena Spiegleobjektiv 1000mm 1:5.6
Carl Zeiss APO Sonnar 200mm 1:2
Leica Telyt-S 800mm 1:6.3
Sigma AF APO 1000mm 1:8

These lenses are so rare. If I sell them I have to wait for decades to get one back. Moreover, the cost may be prohibitively high.

CK


PostPosted: Wed Jul 14, 2021 1:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
CK: I didn't know you posted here. You got my attention with the reflexes but the other long lenses are interesting too. Would you mind possibly doing a thread on those lenses? Images of lenses and from lenses? Not so much the 100mm and 200mm, but the others are of great interest to me.


PostPosted: Thu Jul 15, 2021 1:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
woodrim wrote:
CK: I didn't know you posted here. You got my attention with the reflexes but the other long lenses are interesting too. Would you mind possibly doing a thread on those lenses? Images of lenses and from lenses? Not so much the 100mm and 200mm, but the others are of great interest to me.


I think CK is a hit-and-run poster. However, I have seen that he has posted about those lenses elsewhere.


PostPosted: Thu Jul 15, 2021 2:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Doc Sharptail wrote:

I really should get my marbles together, and finally do a photo of the entire lens pile.
Gonna be a bit of work though...

-D.S.


Oh yes ... Wink


PostPosted: Sat Jul 17, 2021 6:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Yashica Yashinon DS 50 f1.9 even tough it has a bit of front lens fungus cleaning traces left.


PostPosted: Sat Jul 17, 2021 8:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I would never sell the lenses I own that would be most difficult to replace.

M42 Mamiya-Sekor 58mm f/1.7
Elgeet 4-inch. Mini-Tel f/4.5
5cm Tominon C. f/2


PostPosted: Mon Jul 19, 2021 5:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Zeiss Ultron 1.8/50mm
Rubinar 4.5/300mm
Zeiss Pancolar 1.8/80mm
Kuribayashi Petri Orrikor 1.8/55mm
Carl Zeiss Jena Visionar 1.6/100mm


PostPosted: Wed Jul 21, 2021 8:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
* CZJ Prakticar 80/1.8 - can't really describe the strangely amazing output of this lens
* silver Topcon RE.Auto-Topcor 58/1.4 - IMO Topcon RE Super is the most beautiful SLR system ever; handling this big diameter lens feels very good
* Rollei HFT Planar 50/1.4 - using this lens makes me strangely calm
* Asahi SMC Pentax K 28/3.5 - a simple admiration of this ultimate vintage landscape lens


PostPosted: Wed Jul 21, 2021 8:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
y wrote:
* CZJ Prakticar 80/1.8 - can't really describe the strangely amazing output of this lens


Try.


PostPosted: Wed Jul 21, 2021 9:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
woodrim wrote:
Try.
It's very subjective. I have no hard data but it "feels" like it produces punchy/contrasty pictures with smooth yet interesting bokeh.


PostPosted: Wed Jul 21, 2021 9:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
1. Carl Zeiss Planar 50mm f/1.4 MM - I shot my engagement photo with it in France 😉 Plus it renders beautifully
2. Pentacon 135mm f/2.8 preset - love the rendering
3. Helios 44M-4 - my first MF lens!
4. Pentacon 135mm f/2.8 electric - my second MF lens 😂
5. Jupiter 11 Alu in M39 SLR - it's too beautiful
6. Soligor 135/3.5, 200/3.5 and 400/6.3 - all given to me by my late Grandfather


PostPosted: Sat Jul 24, 2021 8:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Mamiya SX 135/2.8 because of its great wide open performance, and ridiculously low market price (why sell?)

Tokina 90/2.5 macro. Great performing lens and versatile (macro, portrait, landscape).

Mamiya EF 50/1.4. Build quality is so-so, but one of the best performing fast vintage standard lenses IMO (also wide open).

Mamiya EF 50/1.7. For the same reasons as the 50/1.4.

Auto Yashinon 5cm f/2: mechanical quality, compact size, incredible sharpness, great colors and bokeh.

Nikkor-P 105/2.5: just a lovely piece of mechanical quality. Great rendering.

Super Multi Coated Takumar 135/2.5 v2: for its incredible mechanical quality and popping images.

Super Takumar 35/3.5: incredibly compact and beautiful mechanical quality. Nice rendering as well.

Pentax K SMC 28/3.5: splendid landscape lens.

Minolta MD 35/2.8: optical quality incredibly good.


PostPosted: Sat Jul 24, 2021 8:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
The Leitz Apo Telyt 180mm 1:3,4 and the Elmar M 135mm 1:4 are probably the lenses that I will keep forever; both are simply perfect for my tastes, the optimal mix of quality and character. Still looking for something comparable in shorter FL, many good lenses, but no clear winners.

Among those, I'll never sell a R Summicron first version, since it's a gift of a friend no longer with us; good but not astonishing glass.

I miss my sold M summicron 50 Wetzlar 6 lenses, tough...


PostPosted: Sat Jul 24, 2021 10:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Ultrapix wrote:
The Leitz Apo Telyt 180mm 1:3,4 and the Elmar M 135mm 1:4 are probably the lenses that I will keep forever; both are simply perfect for my tastes, the optimal mix of quality and character. Still looking for something comparable in shorter FL, many good lenses, but no clear winners.


Zeiss Loxia series? Especially the 2.8/21mm, 2.4/25mm and the 2.4/85mm?

S


PostPosted: Sat Jul 24, 2021 10:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
stevemark wrote:
Ultrapix wrote:
The Leitz Apo Telyt 180mm 1:3,4 and the Elmar M 135mm 1:4 are probably the lenses that I will keep forever; both are simply perfect for my tastes, the optimal mix of quality and character. Still looking for something comparable in shorter FL, many good lenses, but no clear winners.


Zeiss Loxia series? Especially the 2.8/21mm, 2.4/25mm and the 2.4/85mm?

S


Thanks for the suggestion, but I use a Canon EOS R. By the way I already have modern lenses plenty good to me, but I couldn't say that I won't never sell them, are just good tools, while those I mentioned previously represent something more, as well as the summicron M 90 first type, another lens that I regret.


PostPosted: Sun Jul 25, 2021 2:23 am    Post subject: Re: Which lens (lenses) you would never sell? Reply with quote
papasito wrote:
My options

Zeiss Ultron 50/1,8

Leica 50/1,4 v.2

Schneider Xenon 50/1,8 - qbm -

Rollei Planar 50/1,8 qbm

Konica Hexanon 57/1,4


I can say that never will sell also

50/2,8 pantar Icarex, because I like to have a triplet in the last version of the Color Lanthar from Voigtlander.

The same about Tessar 50/2,8 for Icarex that actually is the last version of the voigtlander's color Skopar lens.

And the pancolar 50/2 in exakta mount. Because it's an historical pros 50 mm lens in the oriental market for sone years.

The nikkor H 50/2 because it has an unique rendering that I love.
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