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p.139 #1What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
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Leica Summarit-M f2.5/50mm for use on my EOS M as a small&short tele complement to the RX1. Guess I will have to check out Magic Lantern for the EOS M to improve manual focus handling.


http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/41926915/WEB%20versjoner/DSC02150.jpg

EOS M with EF-M 22mm pancake as reference. The Summarit is compact but not really lightweight. The lens is solidly built, the Fotodiox Pro adapter is really tight and the complete package feels sturdy. Samples.

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Sep 04, 2013 at 01:39 AM
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p.139 #2What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
EBC Fujinon 150/4.5
Sep 04, 2013 at 02:21 AM
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p.139 #3What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
Leica Vario-Elmar-R f/4 35-70mm for my R8 (and 5DII...)
Sep 04, 2013 at 07:20 AM
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p.139 #4What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
Hasselblad CF 250mm f/5.6 SA lens.
Sep 06, 2013 at 02:54 AM
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p.139 #5What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
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Hasselblad CF 250mm f/5.6 SA lens.


Had some loose change in your pockets? I'll bet you don't now!

Very interesting lens. Congrats.

It would be nice to see how this lens differentiates itself in practice from others, being a superachromat, so hope you post some images that show what it can do.
Sep 06, 2013 at 03:04 AM
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p.139 #6What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
Thanks, I think this lens is the last drug for me , to buy it I had a looong decision.It's really an inevitable end for somebody.
Sep 06, 2013 at 03:14 AM
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p.139 #7What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
Fuji Finepix 5s Pro has apparently been shipped just now
Sep 06, 2013 at 07:46 AM
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p.139 #8What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
112 mm Tamron Normal mc filter for Adaptall2 300 2.8. After reading up most people say the lens is actually sharper with this filter. Personally it is hard to see any difference.
Sep 06, 2013 at 08:23 AM
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p.139 #9What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
Krosavcheg wrote:
Fuji Finepix 5s Pro has apparently been shipped just now


Haha, congratulations! I hope you like the colours of it. What lens(es) will you be using?
Sep 06, 2013 at 08:30 AM
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p.139 #10What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
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Krosavcheg wroteFuji Finepix 5s Pro has apparently been shipped just now
Haha, congratulations! I hope you like the colours of it. What lens(es) will you be using?


Took the plunge..
Well...af is a bit of non-existent in my collection. I got a bunch of lenses in F-mount though: 105/2.5, 55/2.8 Micro, 50/2, 50/1.4 Ai's (not Ai-S), Kiron 70-210/3.5, ZF35/2 and a lot of assorted Adaptall SP2...

Recommend any Nikkor AF lenses? Perhaps not the G series...

Ed: It just arrived this morning. I still can't open the box - keep walking around it like a cat. Will probably take me a week or so..
Sep 07, 2013 at 01:15 AM
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p.139 #11What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
Haha, okay, I will just say nothing about this quirk Maybe pick up an extra battery or two. Careful when you buy them, I believe that it uses a different battery than the D200 (which has a CCD, btw, and is meant to have great colour, if nonsensical high ISO performance; I have wanted to try one and compare).

I use the newer G zooms, the 24-70 is perfect, and don't know much about the older ones, but if you want to keep up the theme, the 35-70/2.8 is meant to be good (no typo).

http://kenrockwell.com/nikon/3570.htm

For the studio, it could be a perfect set of focal lengths from normal to tele effective. As a neutral lens, the 60 Micro is very good, very neutral rendering, but maybe you have that covered with the 55 Micro, I don't know it. The 105 you have is obviously fantastic, one of the best lenses ever made with beautiful rendering.

Maybe try a manual focus length first, and see how you get on, perhaps the 55 or 105? The 50/2 might also be worth a try. Alex in Russia recently calibrated his focusing screen on his S5 carefully, and found that he got a high keeper rate.

I am very curious to hear how you get on with this camera, whether positive or negative. Do spend some time processing images from it and see how you like the files. Maybe read the manual first, to avoid getting stumped by the oddities in the menus.

(topic to be continued in your MF thread)
Sep 07, 2013 at 03:13 AM
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p.139 #12What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
Nothing fancy, but for 50 USD I can't complain:


Sep 10, 2013 at 09:14 AM
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p.139 #13What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
Ai-S 28/2 and AF ED 80-200/2.8 Nikkors for Miss Fuji..
Sep 10, 2013 at 09:27 AM
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p.139 #14What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
Interesting follow-up....

I mentioned a few pages above when I bought this that the aperture was a bit oily/sticky and wouldn't shut from wide open...it did from F4 but not from 2.8....sooooo.....

I let it sit for a month @ F16.... and apparently the leaves dried up enough so the leaves now close from F2.8......nice....

http://imageshack.us/a/img571/8318/bs7c.jpg
Sep 12, 2013 at 08:50 AM
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p.139 #15What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
Getting my Zeiss Sonnar 135 2.8 T* for my nex-6 today!
Sep 13, 2013 at 09:03 AM
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p.139 #16What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?

Received my MS-Optical 50mm f1.1 Sonnetar from a superb store in Japan.
The new lens solo and group photo with my other MS-Optical lenses


http://gallery.clubsnap.com/data/500/MS-Optical_50mm_f1_1_Sonnetar.JPG


http://gallery.clubsnap.com/data/500/MS_Optical_Triplet_28mm_35mm_50mm.JPG

Cheers!


Sep 15, 2013 at 12:10 PM
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p.139 #17What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
Yashica ML 50/1.4 for $50
Also came with an FR body, Yashica DSB 70-210/4 & YUS 28/2.8 58mm Pol. And Vivitar 2X-24 and 2 rolls of exposed film.
Edit:
A thread on the YUS
https://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/793761

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Sep 15, 2013 at 03:23 PM
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p.139 #18What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
Uhm, you know that you *HAVE* to show us photos from these!
PLEASE!

noctilux.f095 wrote:
Received my MS-Optical 50mm f1.1 Sonnetar from a superb store in Japan.
The new lens solo and group photo with my other MS-Optical lenses


Sep 15, 2013 at 05:40 PM
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p.139 #19What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
buggz2k wrote:
Uhm, you know that you *HAVE* to show us photos from these!
PLEASE!

noctilux.f095 wroteReceived my MS-Optical 50mm f1.1 Sonnetar from a superb store in Japan.
The new lens solo and group photo with my other MS-Optical lenses


+1000

Sep 15, 2013 at 11:47 PM
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p.139 #20What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
For once, not a purchase post from me, but a moan.

This Tamron Adaptall 2 - to PK/PKA adapter just sold on evilbay Aus for over $100...I 'gave' mine away last year when I sold it for $25

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/121173405697?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1438.l2649
Sep 19, 2013 at 03:13 AM
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