Interested in what everyone has been buying lately.
For me it is the vivitar series one 200mm/3.5 AF
I havent had a chance to shoot it yet since I will need to do a mount swap to get it on my sony... its looking like the AF is nonfunctional unfortunately, although Im not that concerned

mine came with this silly camera bolted onto the back D:

Mamiya RZ67 140mm f/4.5 Macro M-L/A for $60(!!!), with non-functional floating element. $20 worth of parts later from M.A.C., and it's good as new! (And worth about $400-450 now... ;-)

Fujinon 400T/8 with EBC coating in Copal 1 for 4X5. Perhaps the most expensive lens I own.

Two 4X5 shots stitched and then cropped to 6X18 (true 6cmX18cm).

I just got in a Contax Sonnar 100/3.5 .
I love my Planar 100/2, but it's quite a hefty chunk of glass; I'm hoping the sonnar will get me something close in a lighter, smaller walkaround lens for outdoor/daylight use. I haven't had a chance to use it much yet, but it's looking great so far. Of course, the planar is still far superior at f/2-2.8 .

C/Y 28/2.8 & C/Y 50/1.4 ... unless you count the double pistol case I bought to store my M645 glass in as an 'alt' lens case.

Contax G 21mm for my NEX.

mpmendenhall wrote:
I just got in a Contax Sonnar 100/3.5 .
I love my Planar 100/2, but it's quite a hefty chunk of glass; I'm hoping the sonnar will get me something close in a lighter, smaller walkaround lens for outdoor/daylight use. I haven't had a chance to use it much yet, but it's looking great so far. Of course, the planar is still far superior at f/2-2.8 .

Good addition! I have both, and they make a fine pair. The S100 was the C/Y budget buy, but doesn't play second fiddle to any lens.

My latest Alt acquisition was the Yashica 50/1.4 ML. After several months, it has yet to see "first light".

My latest purchase a few days ago, was a set of lenses:

MF Sigma 50-200mm f/3.5 APO (White Body)
MF Canon nFD 300mm F/2.8L (UD + Fluorite elements)
AF Sigma EX 17-35mm F/2.8 Aspherical HSM
MF Tamron 80-210mm f/3.8
MF Soligor 300mm F/5.5
MF Komura 135mm F/2.8

I guess my Nikkor 35/2.8 AI doesn't count, since I don't use Canon, but Nikon. Then it would be an Olympus OM-1 with 50/1.8.

[Edit: I have decided that the Nikkor 35/2.8 AI counts, even though I use it on a D3. If it is alt on a Canon, then it is alt on a Nikon!]

I just got a Canon FD 50/3.5 Macro and a 24/2.0 as somehow speciality lenses for my NEX - along with the lightweight lens kit in M-mount, I wanted a not too expensive macro lens and a 35mm equiv. for low light.

Yashica 50 mm f/1.4 ML....

Nikon 50 f/2 K and 24 f/2.8 AiS

minolta 28mm 1:2,0

Mamiya M645 C 50/4 Shift. It's in the mail.

FD55/1.2 for the GF1
Pentax 645 75mm for use with the Mirex T/S
Ugly Bronica 40mm ETRS Zenzanon (a mistake, I should have got the 40mm SQ and a Mamiya adapter to use with the Mirex T/S... darn.... but I'll play with it a little when it arrives next week.
Not so recently an OM 100/2

Mike

Darn Jim, I wish I'd known you wanted one

pmcmanis wrote:
mine came with this silly camera bolted onto the back D:

Minolta 400mm f/5.6 APO. I am hoping to convert it to EOS mount. If anyone has any advice on that I would sure appreciate it.

mcbroomf wrote:
Darn Jim, I wish I'd known you wanted one


Too bad, Mike. Maybe I'll get two of them and do a Marty Feldman routine.