Any good shops for SLR lenses?

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Does anyone know of any good online stores that sell SLR lenses, particularly Olympus OM mount and Fujinon please? Harrisons have a few film era lenses (no Fuji or Olympus though), but MPB and Wex don't appear to list any. I'm not a fan of buying lenses on eBay, especially vintage ones.
 
There's a shop in Yorkshire - name escapes me right now - that used to do a lot of film-era kit.
 
snerkler said:
Does anyone know of any good online stores that sell SLR lenses, particularly Olympus OM mount and Fujinon please? Harrisons have a few film era lenses (no Fuji or Olympus though), but MPB and Wex don't appear to list any. I'm not a fan of buying lenses on eBay, especially vintage ones.
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I would look at some of the Japanese sellers on Ebay, they tend to over deliver on quality and condition.
 
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Mifsuds in Brixham have some manual focus lenses listed.

Olympus

No Fujinon though.
 
Ffords sell them, I've sold two boxes full to them :D

I have some left I'll be advertising at some point.
 
ancient_mariner said:
There's a shop in Yorkshire - name escapes me right now - that used to do a lot of film-era kit.
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They might have gone bang. I sent some lenses to a shop in Yorkshire but I declined their offer and not long after they ceased trading... If it's the same company. There may be more than one in Yorkshire :D

Just looked the emails up. The company I dealt with was West Yorkshire Cameras. Gone now.
 
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Does anyone know of any good online stores that sell SLR lenses, particularly Olympus OM mount and Fujinon please? Harrisons have a few film era lenses (no Fuji or Olympus though), but MPB and Wex don't appear to list any. I'm not a fan of buying lenses on eBay, especially vintage ones.
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eBay isn't that bad, just look at their feedback, everything I sell on my eBay store has been fully checked & tested,
 
Do you have Fujica cameras? Fujinon lenses almost seem unique to a particular model, and I wouldn't be tempted to use them on a non Fujica camera.
 
Plain Nev said:
Do you have Fujica cameras? Fujinon lenses almost seem unique to a particular model, and I wouldn't be tempted to use them on a non Fujica camera.
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Yeah I do (y)
 
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Yeah I do (y)
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I have an STX-1N, a few years ago I put together a second system with an STX-2 with a further 50mm, I then managed to source a 28mm and a quite rare 35mm (that came from Italy), I sold the STX-2 (it was new old stock, boxed with all gubbins) and the lenses as they just weren’t getting any use.

It’s an OK system, limited by coarse metering and a loud barn door shutter.

Unless you want to develop the system for pure nostalgia purposes then I would suggest developing a Canon/Nikon/Pentax/Olympus/Minolta system will be more fruitful land offer many more available options
 
Mr Perceptive said:
I have an STX-1N, a few years ago I put together a second system with an STX-2 with a further 50mm, I then managed to source a 28mm and a quite rare 35mm (that came from Italy), I sold the STX-2 (it was new old stock, boxed with all gubbins) and the lenses as they just weren’t getting any use.

It’s an OK system, limited by coarse metering and a loud barn door shutter.

Unless you want to develop the system for pure nostalgia purposes then I would suggest developing a Canon/Nikon/Pentax/Olympus/Minolta system will be more fruitful land offer many more available options
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I'm really wanting a 35mm prime but the OM ones are scarce and more money than I was wanting to spend as I'm sure it's just a 'phase', so as I've got the Fujica as well I thought I'd look into both.
 
snerkler said:
I'm really wanting a 35mm prime but the OM ones are scarce and more money than I was wanting to spend as I'm sure it's just a 'phase', so as I've got the Fujica as well I thought I'd look into both.
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I couldn’t find a Fujinon-X 35mm prime in the UK when I looked, hence getting it from Italy. The system wasn’t sold widely in the UK. I’ve still got the STX-1N (in fact used it last weekend), but only have the ‘kit’ 50mm F1.9

35mm was a less used focal length back on 70s/80s, most 3 lens setups used the 28mm, 50mm and something longer.
 
Mr Perceptive said:
I couldn’t find a Fujinon-X 35mm prime in the UK when I looked, hence getting it from Italy. The system wasn’t sold widely in the UK. I’ve still got the STX-1N (in fact used it last weekend), but only have the ‘kit’ 50mm F1.9

35mm was a less used focal length back on 70s/80s, most 3 lens setups used the 28mm, 50mm and something longer.
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Of my 35mm Yashica kit - ML28, ML35, ML50, ML135 - the ML35 was the most difficult to find.
 
I can't say why but the Bessa R popped into my head today on the drive home. I had one with a Voigtlander Color Skopar 35mm f2.5. That was a nice set up and I wish I hadn't sold mine.

Could a Bessa R interest you instead of a SLR Toby?
 
woof woof said:
I can't say why but the Bessa R popped into my head today on the drive home. I had one with a Voigtlander Color Skopar 35mm f2.5. That was a nice set up and I wish I hadn't sold mine.

Could a Bessa R interest you instead of a SLR Toby?
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No, I've already got the SLR's but one's got a 50mm f1.8 and the other a 55mm f1.8 and I was hoping for a 35mm, however I might have better luck finding a 28mm based on some of the above.
 
35mm is one of those neither here, nor there lenses. I think it's much better to have the clear difference between a 50 and 28.
 
Plain Nev said:
35mm is one of those neither here, nor there lenses. I think it's much better to have the clear difference between a 50 and 28.
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It's arguably my favourite focal length.
 
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Before d*g*tal and (good) zooms, a more varied selection of zooms was the order of the day, especially if you didn't do your own D&P. Especially at the wide end, a few mm makes a difference so you might be carrying a 24, 28, 35 and a 50 to get the framing how you wanted and rely on "foot zoom" for fine adjustment (when possible!)

Personally, I could only afford a 28 and a 50 but could borrow a 24 and a 135 from Dad (IF I'd been good!!!)
 
Nod said:
Before d*g*tal and (good) zooms, a more varied selection of zooms was the order of the day, especially if you didn't do your own D&P. Especially at the wide end, a few mm makes a difference so you might be carrying a 24, 28, 35 and a 50 to get the framing how you wanted and rely on "foot zoom" for fine adjustment (when possible!)

Personally, I could only afford a 28 and a 50 but could borrow a 24 and a 135 from Dad (IF I'd been good!!!)
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I remember buying one of the first 28-200 zooms, thinking how incredibly versatile it was, then after getting prints back, realising how incredibly crap it was. :p

I also had a 24-45 Soligor zoom - at that time 24mm was amazing, and I used it quite a bit, although the quality wasn't exactly stunning. :rolleyes:
 
snerkler said:
No, I've already got the SLR's but one's got a 50mm f1.8 and the other a 55mm f1.8 and I was hoping for a 35mm, however I might have better luck finding a 28mm based on some of the above.
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I've had quite a few mass market film era 35mm's but TBH I didn't find them very inspiring. I thought they were all pretty similar and anything wider than f2.8 is probably rarer and more expensive and probably not really all that good at wider apertures. I had a Rokkor 35mm f1.8 and I thought that was really good stopped down but wide open I thought it was pretty poor.

I think 24 or 28mm make a better partner for a 50mm than a 35mm does. I sold most of my 24, 28 and 35mm lenses but I do still have a Zuiko 24mm f2.8.
 
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