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Let's talk cheap and nasty, or cheap and excellent if you find it!
We joke on here about dirt cheap primes a lot calling them 'council house primes' [if you haven't seen these discussions, bless you, you haven't missed a thing!] - there's the pro who thinks anything below a 'G-master' [what a silly name for lenses!] or L lens or whatever the 'pro' level is for any given system is beneath them - there's the 'enthusiast' which I would say is most on here, who scrape a bit, they want those juicy pro lenses but can't really make their whole kit work that way so maybe buy a couple cheaper alts to compensate. Then there's the true budget shooter or beginner who is juggling cost vs performance with a little more fragility. We [I am definitely in this category] may have a nice main lens, but outside of this, for some variation we look to all kinds of budget friendly alternatives. We don't care about AF speeds or DXOmark charts when it comes to these alt choices, we want best 'bang for buck' and the more variety and bonus quality we can squeeze into out budget the better.
SO ... who's a thrifty specialist here? What are you doing to maximize that 'bang per buck' [hate that expression but it's best we got to describe it]
I've just bought a Canon 50mm STM lens ... though I'm shooting with a Panasonic body ... why? because I already have an AF adapter for this lens to work with because I've recently bought a Canon 55-250 - Why? Because that lens and the adapter combined were cheaper than even a used Panasonic 100-300, and the Canon lens, even adapted performs just as well so why not?. I actually find it a better lens than that Panasonic so it makes sense. I just leave the adapter on it, like it's part of the lens. Got me thinking, why not have some more cheap and cheerful [another expression drives me nuts but works] options. I'm planning to buy the speed booster version of this adapter to go with, which will double my options when I use Canon EF lenses [plus EF-S if i decide to 'hack' them]
So who's adapting? What's your bastardized set up? Are you adapting Canon AF lenses to your Sony/Fuji/Panasonic/Olympus/whatever? [Canon EF lenses are known to be the single most adaptable AF lenses to any other system] Or, are you into MF glass? are you going right on the cheap with 'dumb' adapters and old MF lenses? Do you have the patience, the time, the stubbornness!
I love seeing people come up with weird yet wonderful combinations, so let us know, what you got?
We joke on here about dirt cheap primes a lot calling them 'council house primes' [if you haven't seen these discussions, bless you, you haven't missed a thing!] - there's the pro who thinks anything below a 'G-master' [what a silly name for lenses!] or L lens or whatever the 'pro' level is for any given system is beneath them - there's the 'enthusiast' which I would say is most on here, who scrape a bit, they want those juicy pro lenses but can't really make their whole kit work that way so maybe buy a couple cheaper alts to compensate. Then there's the true budget shooter or beginner who is juggling cost vs performance with a little more fragility. We [I am definitely in this category] may have a nice main lens, but outside of this, for some variation we look to all kinds of budget friendly alternatives. We don't care about AF speeds or DXOmark charts when it comes to these alt choices, we want best 'bang for buck' and the more variety and bonus quality we can squeeze into out budget the better.
SO ... who's a thrifty specialist here? What are you doing to maximize that 'bang per buck' [hate that expression but it's best we got to describe it]
I've just bought a Canon 50mm STM lens ... though I'm shooting with a Panasonic body ... why? because I already have an AF adapter for this lens to work with because I've recently bought a Canon 55-250 - Why? Because that lens and the adapter combined were cheaper than even a used Panasonic 100-300, and the Canon lens, even adapted performs just as well so why not?. I actually find it a better lens than that Panasonic so it makes sense. I just leave the adapter on it, like it's part of the lens. Got me thinking, why not have some more cheap and cheerful [another expression drives me nuts but works] options. I'm planning to buy the speed booster version of this adapter to go with, which will double my options when I use Canon EF lenses [plus EF-S if i decide to 'hack' them]
So who's adapting? What's your bastardized set up? Are you adapting Canon AF lenses to your Sony/Fuji/Panasonic/Olympus/whatever? [Canon EF lenses are known to be the single most adaptable AF lenses to any other system] Or, are you into MF glass? are you going right on the cheap with 'dumb' adapters and old MF lenses? Do you have the patience, the time, the stubbornness!
I love seeing people come up with weird yet wonderful combinations, so let us know, what you got?
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