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Do such lenses exist? I currently have a Canon 28mm f1.8 which I love but it doesn't get used enough and its £300 sitting in my bag. Being a student this should be spent on beer.

So I was wondering if there was something similar but cheaper, such as a third party old manual focus lens?
As I love my mamiya 80mm f2.8 and that cost me £100 with the camera! Is there anything similar I can bolt onto the 40D?

Thanks for any info.
 
Wide prime or wide zoom?

I think your wanting to upgrade to the 1.25x or Full frame camera's? So that mean's full frame lenses. You could try the cheap as chips 19-35mm (voigtlander, cosina, vivitar, same lens IIRC). Perhaps the Sigma 15-30mm or 17-35mm. I reckon they are the best cheap zooms you'll get because they can all be bought for £85/125/175 at the most. Good value. If you can stretch a bit more the Tokina 20-35mm is nice becuase of the f/2.8 aperture.

Other wide primes are the Sigma 20mm f/1.8 and the 28mm f/1.8. The 28mm can be bought for £50, if you get the old non-digital version!!
 
Sorry should have said, Wide Prime around the 30mm mark so that it would be near 50mm on my 40D.
 
theres the 28/2.8 but tbh if you have it keep it, I too am a student and try to get my money into kit before it gets into the bar
 
Sigma 30mm f/1.4? Specifying a budget would help quite a lot though!

Chris
 
In that case the 28mm f/1.8 Sigma sounds like your best bet. Mifsuds have one (at the update at least) for £50?
 
Hmm anything below £300!!

The sigma is to expensive, I would prefer something oldschool. Is m42 a possibility? Can you get cheap adapters?
 
m42 is the best bet for adapting, fd sucks balls to convert and I've never tried anything else

my friend has a 28mm prime and adapter I'll ask him what he thinks
 
david1701 said:
m42 is the best bet for adapting, fd sucks balls to convert and I've never tried anything else

my friend has a 28mm prime and adapter I'll ask him what he thinks
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Cheers David.

I just find I rush digital images. If I had something that involved manual focusing / aperture it will force me to slow down. Am I right in thinking I could get something thats decent for peanuts?

Anyone know what lens manufactures used m42?
 
Liam said:
Cheers David.

I just find I rush digital images. If I had something that involved manual focusing / aperture it will force me to slow down. Am I right in thinking I could get something thats decent for peanuts?

Anyone know what lens manufactures used m42?
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They will almost always specify which what the mount is in an advert. The older (pre-Pentax K) Pentaxes (Takumar) and Praktica (so Carl Zeiss Jena, Pentacon, Meyer) as well as the Zenit fit lenses (Helios, Zenitar, Tair, KMZ etc.).

I would also look at the old Olympus OM lenses - there are cheap EF-OM adapters too and the lens quality is excellent (they have 21mm, 24mm, 28mm, 35mm ranging from f2 to f3.5).

Andy
 
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