p.232 #5 · What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
sebboh wrote:
sweet! i'll be interested to hear what you think, and see how it looks on camera.
my a7 is at the Sony service right now because of the loose mount but I will certainly post some images of it on the camera and images taken with it as soon as it is back. It is not a very rational lens but I got it for a decent price and it is an interesting piece of history. Plus Briantho's images with it looked quite nice, it seems to have much less astigmatism than more modern planars
p.232 #6 · What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
Phillip Reeve wrote:
my a7 is at the Sony service right now because of the loose mount but I will certainly post some images of it on the camera and images taken with it as soon as it is back. It is not a very rational lens but I got it for a decent price and it is an interesting piece of history. Plus Briantho's images with it looked quite nice, it seems to have much less astigmatism than more modern planars
it has a healthy number of aperture blades too, unlike contact lenses.
p.232 #12 · What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
Yeah, not ideal but f/2.8 should be fine which I can't say about my Contax 1.4/50.
It is really annoying that Minolta and Zeiss at one point decided that 6 aperture blades were enough. Many Canon FD lenses like the nFD 1.4/50 have eight aperture blades which makes for a much less distracting bokeh. I think it will draw some very nice sun stars.
p.232 #13 · What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
Just ordered a Voigtlander 180mm f/4. Got it for a relatively reasonable price considering where the prices are climbing to. With my luck, Voigtlander will reintroduce it next week and its value will tank, not that I intend on selling it
p.232 #14 · What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
I have a confession:
I just bought a Pentax SMC 645 A ED IF 300f4 (whew!) lens from KEH today, because I needed to spend $149 for free international shipping (and the P67 55f4 lens hood and a 'Blad B60 hood just wouldn't cut it...). That got me over the line and then some! It's not the FA lens though so it was under $400 and much reduced, so my sin is a medium one.
p.232 #16 · What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
Not a lens in the classical way, but a pentaprism
The Nikon DE-1 viewfinder for the Nikon F2.
I spent the last year browsing camera stores and the web and often found myself losing my mind over the ridiculous prices people were charging (and obviously paying too) for this little thing.
For those who don't know what I'm talking about:
The Nikon F2 was first sold with an unmetered simple viewfinder, the DE-1.
Shortly after that, they introduced the metered "Photomic" viewfinder, followed by several evolutions of that very viewfinder.
When I bought my F2, I paid 120$ for a camera in pristine condition with a fully functional photomic finder installed.
Because I would like to use the camera with off-camera flash in studio, I'd like to ditch the extra weight of the photomic finder and replace it with the DE-1.
Boy was I up for a surprise.
The DE-1 in battered condition usually sells for as little as 200$ and can go up to 400 bucks for the black Titanium version. (without a camera to use it with, mind you!)
You often find the F2 with DE-1 finder for 300-500 USD on eBay too.
Except for the fact that it looks better and it's less heavy to handle, I can't really see an advantage to the meterless finder, but obviously people are going crazy about that thing.
Last week, I finally got lucky, when some guy sold the finder in great condition (no dents or scratches) at an extremely low price.
I started bidding right away and seem to have given the impression that I was hellbent to purchase it, because there wasn't much resistance from other bidders and I ended up getting my Nikon DE-1 for 115$
On one hand I feel like I made a bargain deal and on the other hand I still feel like I paid way too much for such a "worthless" product.
p.232 #17 · What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
Found on the floor at the local camera store a Contax Zeiss Ikon (small D) with the Carl Zeiss Jena 58mm f2 lens. Picked up the combo for $15. The first adapter, Fotodiox M42-NEX, didn't work, not even close. Not sure if there is an adapter for this lens. Anyone know of one thats guaranteed to work?
p.232 #19 · What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
john_edwards wrote:
Found on the floor at the local camera store a Contax Zeiss Ikon (small D) with the Carl Zeiss Jena 58mm f2 lens. Picked up the combo for $15. The first adapter, Fotodiox M42-NEX, didn't work, not even close. Not sure if there is an adapter for this lens. Anyone know of one thats guaranteed to work?
That's odd. What didn't work? Was the mount incompatible or the registration distance off?
p.232 #20 · What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
sebboh wrote:
sweet!
love that lens, and i agree about the focus tab. the stock one is terrible to use. did you set it up to bring up different frame lines?
No I havent touched it, but it brings up 35mm framelines for some reason, which is perfect.
