How is vintage being defined, e.g., year of introduction, year of manufcature, years of design and materials? Median person in the US was born around 1986. Is the 50th percentile relevant?
nickw_ wrote:
Here are three that come to mind:
- Nikkor Noct 58mm f1.2
- Zeiss Planar 85mm f1.4 (or the 1.2 if you can find it)
- Leica Summilux R 75m f1.4 (or the 80/1.4 R)
I actually prefer many of the old planar designs.
I've recently become enamoured by the Schneider 60 XL. While not old yet, its out of production and becoming highly sought after.
I've had really good luck with 35-70/3.5-4.5 Tamron 09A, on both film and digital. The lens test type stuff is fine but not great, It just takes a lot of excellent pictures. To the point I bought a another one.
MF 35-70 arguably obsolete on film , Leica and contax got popular on digital, though. Similar to 28/3.5 zuiko, probably obsolete on film, but then got popular to adapt on digital
I'm really fond of a piece of glass from the 90's (I know, not quite vintage). It's the Contax G 45mm Zeiss lens. I now use it on my Canon mirrorless. I have to manually focus it, but I'm so happy with it!
My go-to lens is the Domiron 50mm f/2. It’s always in my bag. It’s an Exakta mount and I use it with my Nikon Zf and occasionally the Fujifilm X-E5, simply taking advantage of the Fuji presets.
Karin Loveit wrote:
I'm really fond of a piece of glass from the 90's (I know, not quite vintage). It's the Contax G 45mm Zeiss lens. I now use it on my Canon mirrorless. I have to manually focus it, but I'm so happy with it!
Gosh I have one of those 45s around somewhere and also the 28mm with the original G body around 1998. I never though they would work on anything else.
EB-1 wrote:
Gosh I have one of those 45s around somewhere and also the 28mm with the original G body around 1998. I never though they would work on anything else.
EBH
You have to buy an adapter for it all to match up. It isn't perfect, but it does work! I also have an original G body I plan to sell, but I'm keeping the lens!
