Lenses I use
Mar 23, 2015 8:50:09 GMT
Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2015 8:50:09 GMT
Following on from pjc68's comment about prime lenses in Dalethorn's 'Church Interior' thread..
I like zooms for convenience; great for snapshots while traveling. But I, too, prefer to use primes where possible. With a prime the fixed focal length means you have to think more about composition plus they're likely to be of higher quality than a zoom. And, of course, big aperture zooms are terribly expensive.
I have only three primes; well, only three high quality ones, anyway. The best and sharpest of them is my 50mm f1.7 Pentax. Bought for £18 from a camera shop in Newcastle-under-Lyme around 1998, it was for use with my Pentax P30 35mm camera. It's a stunning little lens.
Also there's a 200mm lens; it's one I use a lot. Again bought for around £18 at the end of the last century though I cannot remember from where. It's made by Hoya (who now own Pentax?) and with a max apertue of f3.5 that's much faster than either of the two 80-200mm zooms I have.
I have another by Pentax, it's a 135mm F3.5. A very compact lens which gives an effective c.200m on my digital camera body. This was an Ebay find and I paid just 20-something pounds for it.
Finally, the runt of the litter is my Russian 58mm f2.0. It's that very well known Helios lens which came with those very basic, and cheap, Zenith SLRs which gave so many of us our first taste of enthusiast photography... I bought a Zenith B, along with its 50mm lens, at a car boot sale for 7 quid. The body didn't work for long, but it was the lens I bought it for, and for sentimental reasons. I had taken a lot of pics with my old Zentih back in the 70s and I liked the quite soft, pastel, colours it produced, particularly in dull light.
Even though this 58mm Helios has an M42 screw thread it still fits my Pentax DSLR... well, with an adaptor it fits. It may be true of other camera manufactures, but it's a fact that all modern Pentax cameras can be used with ANY lens they've ever produced. As long as you're happy with manual focus and manual aperture setting that is. But if you served you apprenticeship with a Zenith B and a hand held meter that's no isssue at all
Penatx DSLR fitted with the M42 thread Helios lens:
Did I post this photograph before? Do I come here often...?
Regards,
Derek
Footnote:
I still have one more screw-thread lens on the wants list. I moved up from my Zenith B to a Praktica Nova 1. Mine came with the 50mm f2.8 Tessar. Beautifully sharp it was. I keep watching these on Ebay but have yet to follow through with a purchase.
I like zooms for convenience; great for snapshots while traveling. But I, too, prefer to use primes where possible. With a prime the fixed focal length means you have to think more about composition plus they're likely to be of higher quality than a zoom. And, of course, big aperture zooms are terribly expensive.
I have only three primes; well, only three high quality ones, anyway. The best and sharpest of them is my 50mm f1.7 Pentax. Bought for £18 from a camera shop in Newcastle-under-Lyme around 1998, it was for use with my Pentax P30 35mm camera. It's a stunning little lens.
Also there's a 200mm lens; it's one I use a lot. Again bought for around £18 at the end of the last century though I cannot remember from where. It's made by Hoya (who now own Pentax?) and with a max apertue of f3.5 that's much faster than either of the two 80-200mm zooms I have.
I have another by Pentax, it's a 135mm F3.5. A very compact lens which gives an effective c.200m on my digital camera body. This was an Ebay find and I paid just 20-something pounds for it.
Finally, the runt of the litter is my Russian 58mm f2.0. It's that very well known Helios lens which came with those very basic, and cheap, Zenith SLRs which gave so many of us our first taste of enthusiast photography... I bought a Zenith B, along with its 50mm lens, at a car boot sale for 7 quid. The body didn't work for long, but it was the lens I bought it for, and for sentimental reasons. I had taken a lot of pics with my old Zentih back in the 70s and I liked the quite soft, pastel, colours it produced, particularly in dull light.
Even though this 58mm Helios has an M42 screw thread it still fits my Pentax DSLR... well, with an adaptor it fits. It may be true of other camera manufactures, but it's a fact that all modern Pentax cameras can be used with ANY lens they've ever produced. As long as you're happy with manual focus and manual aperture setting that is. But if you served you apprenticeship with a Zenith B and a hand held meter that's no isssue at all
Penatx DSLR fitted with the M42 thread Helios lens:
Did I post this photograph before? Do I come here often...?
Regards,
Derek
Footnote:
I still have one more screw-thread lens on the wants list. I moved up from my Zenith B to a Praktica Nova 1. Mine came with the 50mm f2.8 Tessar. Beautifully sharp it was. I keep watching these on Ebay but have yet to follow through with a purchase.