p.78 #2 · What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
Bifurcator wrote:
Me neither.
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Winning bid: US $910.00 Well, it for sure wasn't me! Although I would have paid $75 to $100 for it. Wait... don't I have an MD 135/2.... Checks cabinet... ：P
It's probably shoved back in among the 130 or so that have too much CA for you.
p.78 #4 · What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
XsigmaSD wrote:
Proof that there are some good deals left... Craigs List, posted in a ad titled "Two Old Cameras Make Offer" The other was a Minolta Maxxum something.
I actually gave the guy $50 more than we agreed on in email, once I saw it, and realized he had no idea what he had.
Body is rough but functions, the lens is minty, had a filter on it for life apparently.
p.78 #6 · What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
Nice, I still have my ol' T4 from the 70's.
My first "real" camera.
It still works, as does the ol' Vivitar 285 flash!
Though, I don't have no where near the great glass that you have...
Makten wrote:
Not my last buy, but this thing has been sitting in my parents cupboard for at least 20 years. Yesterday I took it out for a spin.
p.78 #8 · What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
I picked up a FD 85-300/4.5 in breech lock, "new FD" 50/3.5 macro and "new FD" 24/2.8, along with buying several FD to m4/3 adapters. I'll also try a tele-extender type adapter on the EOS mount for the 85-300.
Initial use shows the 50 macro is exceptional; the 85-300 is great at f/8, and usable wide open (need to run it through all its paces); and the jury is still out on the 24: it has curvature and CA, but great color, so we'll see.
All for $200 + 90 + 70, including shipping or pick-up, so I'm a happy camper.
I'm itching to try the 50 macro against my Leica 60 macro. The first shots from the 50 macro ($70) are stunning, even wide open, and especially at f/5.6. Here's where that new Canon "M" model would be nice with better IQ.
p.78 #9 · What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
Pretty good performance from the 85-300 @ f/8. I found best results at f/8 to f/11. The lens has constant aperture of f/4.5, but the focus changes with zoom shift. Win some, lose some.
Mounted on tripod, Oly E-P2, ISO 200, PP in LR4.
Here are the two extremes of focal length in two different scenes.
p.78 #10 · What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
A like new Olympus Auto-Bellows from KEH Really inexpensive way to get nice smooth rail focusing. Mounted to it is an E-PL1 and Olympus 135mm f3.5. Both my 5D and 60D both work with an extension tube on the camera standard.
p.78 #11 · What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
Nice Oly bellows rig!
I have the 135/4.5 macro lens with Auto Tube.
Still waiting for my Contax SP 100 macro lens to show up from Austria. Took 8 days to go through customs, arg.Can't wait to use it on the Context bellows rig I got from KEH.
p.78 #12 · What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
All I can say is wow....and wow again...
This Oly 24 is so much better than the Nikon 24/2.8 I had used for 40 years or so...at least on the Canon Dslr it'll be used on...
I took only a couple of shots to test against backlighting, where the Nikkor was terrible....
The Oly's IQ is just wonderful...no flare, no loss of contrast...just what you see through the VF...
It's lenses like this that MAKES you want to go and see the world through them...
Only issue I'm going to have is that it focuses in the opposition direction to all my other (Nikkor) lenses...oh well...not an issue with Canon AF lenses, of course...and I find that there's just enough shimmer to the 30D microprism to MF pretty well...
p.78 #16 · What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
No crusty stuff for me (for now)
My most recent - Oly 45 1.8 and PanLeica 25mm 1.4 and an OM-D to slap them on
I'll probably end up selling almost all of my DSLR kit - but it comes to choosing between 5D2 and 7D - actually a hard decision, as the m43 isn't known for AF-C and neither is the 5D2....but the DoF / noise difference between FF and m43 is greater than APS-C, etc. etc.
*sigh* I guess I'm blessed to have such "concerns".
p.78 #17 · What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
cputeq wrote:
No crusty stuff for me (for now)
My most recent - Oly 45 1.8 and PanLeica 25mm 1.4 and an OM-D to slap them on
I'll probably end up selling almost all of my DSLR kit - but it comes to choosing between 5D2 and 7D - actually a hard decision, as the m43 isn't known for AF-C and neither is the 5D2....but the DoF / noise difference between FF and m43 is greater than APS-C, etc. etc.
*sigh* I guess I'm blessed to have such "concerns".
Mine 5D2 and 7D are now sold.Not that difficult decision if you don't shoot landscapes/fast moving subjects very often.I have left all my DSLR lenses waiting for FF mirorless/35-40MP Canon FF body with tilt/swivel LCD to come.Meanwhile NEXes + 600Ds serve well enough.
BTW:Yesterday's acquisitions: Oly Zuiko 50/3.5 macro,Oly Zuiko 135/3.5,Sigma 24/2.8 Super wide and a better copy of Yashica MC 35-70/3.5-4.5.
p.78 #18 · What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
Today:another Yashica ML 28/2.8,Yashica ML 50/1.7,Yashica DSB 70-180/4.5,Yashica FX-103 Program body,flash,accesories, Canon FD S.S.C. 100/2.8 all fairly inexpensive.
Well, it for sure wasn't me! Although I would have paid $75 to $100 for it. 
Wait... don't I have an MD 135/2.... Checks cabinet... ：P
Really inexpensive way to get nice smooth rail focusing. Mounted to it is an E-PL1 and Olympus 135mm f3.5. Both my 5D and 60D both work with an extension tube on the camera standard. 
