[LRflex] Re: Odd Lens Adapter Query - now cheap old lenses
- From: Steve Barbour <steve.barbour@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:37:07 -0800
On Feb 10, 2010, at 9:24 AM, philippe.amard wrote:
> Still have a couple of them , and received the G1 adaptor this week,
> to be continued as I really want to see the results of the 1.4 50 used
> as a portrait lens.
me too, welcome home mon ami,
amities,
Steve
>
> Amitiés
> Philippe
>
> Le 10 févr. 10 à 17:03, Douglas Sharp a écrit :
>
>>
>> The 25mm is a dream lens - still way out of my price bracket, even s/
>> h.
>> The 135/4 (as I mentioned) and the 50/1.8 are a couple of my
>> favourites.
>> the 200/4 Tele-Tessar is a Zeiss/Rollei (not a Voigtländer - I just
>> looked) from the time of the upheavals in the German camera industry.
>>
>> BTW: I'm glad we don't have aliens like that in our garden :-)
>>
>> Cheers
>> Douglas
>>
>> On 10.02.2010 16:46, Aram Langhans wrote:
>>> Sounds like you ARE a S/H camera store. :-)
>>>
>>> I can second the impression of Zeiss/Rollei glass. That was my
>>> system from
>>> 1972 to 1998 when I bought my R4. I had two SL-35 German bodies
>>> and the
>>> 25/2.8, 35/2.8, 50/1.8, 135/4 and 200/4 Zeiss German one pin
>>> lenses. I took
>>> all my close-up flower shots with the 135 Tessar on a bellows.
>>> Example: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=207049
>>> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=751778
>>>
>>> If I had know that I could one day use those lenses on a Canon
>>> Digital, I
>>> might have kept a few myself.
>>>
>>> Aram
>>>
>>> --------------------------------------------------
>>> From: "Douglas Sharp"<douglas.sharp@xxxxxx>
>>> Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 12:39 AM
>>> To:<leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Subject: [LRflex] Re: Odd Lens Adapter Query - now cheap old lenses
>>>
>>>
>>>> Aram,
>>>> There are thousands of very good lenses out there at fantastically
>>>> low
>>>> prices (and camera bodies too - I just picked up an almost perfect
>>>> Canon
>>>> A1 with a 1.8/50 SC and a motor drive for 50 euros, an Oly OM-10
>>>> and a
>>>> Pentax MX for 25 euros each - with standard lenses and winders).
>>>>
>>>> These are all s/h store prices - not bids won on some online
>>>> auction site.
>>>>
>>>> My personal favourites:
>>>>
>>>> Voigtländer/Rollei (Zeiss) 4/135 - tiny, light, pin-sharp
>>>> Old version Zeiss 1.4/85 for Rollei - heavy and VERY fast,
>>>> beautifully
>>>> soft wide-open
>>>> Voigtländer 4/200 for Rollei - great lens, looks very "retro"
>>>> Zeiss 2.8/135 Sonnar - beautifully neutral, slightly cool colour
>>>> rendition, very sharp
>>>> Zeiss 3.5/200 Tele-Tessar - not quite sure about this one - but it
>>>> feels
>>>> very good - must use it more often
>>>>
>>>> Rollei 3.5/200 - very sharp, perfect contrast, very light, very good
>>>> balance - in contrast, the Zeiss is a bit front-heavy
>>>>
>>>> No wonder that Leica and Zeiss had some of their lenses made by
>>>> Kyocera
>>>> (Yashica)
>>>>
>>>> Yashica 2.8/24 - a surpisingly good WA lens
>>>> Yashica 3.5/21 - almost identical (if not a little better) than the
>>>> Super-Angulon 4/21)
>>>> Yashica 2.8/55 - superb short macro lens
>>>>
>>>> Topcon 1.8/58 - an almost legendary classic - recently reborn as a
>>>> Cosina/Voigländer lens, the RE-2 that came with it sadly seized up.
>>>>
>>>> I must admit that I also ended up with some real "dogs" - the Rollei
>>>> 4/21 is very prone to flare, and I'm not all that pleased with the
>>>> Zeiss
>>>> 2.8/45 pancake at wider apertures.
>>>>
>>>> The next couple of weeks will be spent finding out what all the
>>>> buttons
>>>> and switches are for on the Canon A1, but my first impressions are
>>>> that
>>>> it's a "tactile pleasure" like the best of the older Leica SLRs
>>>>
>>>> I still have a whole bunch of Oly, Pentax and Canon FD lenses and a
>>>> whole gamut of zooms (Tokina, Soligor, Tamron, Vivitar) to try out
>>>> - the
>>>> next few months are going to be fun.
>>>>
>>>> Who knows, I might even get around to running some film through a
>>>> couple
>>>> of Leicas too
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>> Douglas
>>>>
>>>> On 10.02.2010 03:34, Aram Langhans wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> That's quite an assortment of adapters. Glad to see some old
>>>>> gems are
>>>>> getting some use even today.
>>>>> And there were quite a few gems in the past, and some lenses that
>>>>> have
>>>>> unique signatures that are quite interesting.
>>>>>
>>>>> Aram
>>>>>
>>>>> -
>>>>>
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