Found some old film lenses

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A post on another forum prompted me to have a rummage around to see if I could find some of my old film gear. I turned up; a Mamiya/sekor 50mm f1.8, a Chinon 200mm f3.5 (can't wait to try this out) a Vivitar 28-70mm and a zuiko 28 and 50mm. Needless to say I promptly ordered an OM to eos adapter and a M42 to eos adapter which came in the post today. Here's a few test shots from the Mamiya:

1) This thing is sharp at f4 :eek:



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2) Nice bokeh at f1.8



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3) Works very well with extension tubes (Obligatory spring time dandelion :cool:)



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All these are straight out of the camera with no sharpening aside from the default in camera stuff, not bad for a lens that cost half the price of my camera strap. :lol:
 
The problem I find with these older lenses is they tend to be rather lacking in contrast more than anything. Other than that, you can get some great gems for little cash!
 
I Love to dabble with MF lenses and have a few myself which include:

Olympus OM: 28mm f2.8, 35mm f2.8, 50mm f1.4 ( a real doozie!) & 50-170mm f3.5

Takumar: 55mm f1.8 & 28mm f3.5 - I'm after the 50mm f1.4 which is suposed to be 'the' 50mm f1.4 to own!

Tamron 28-70mm f3.5 -brilliant zoom!

An array of other lenses

I am after a few Carl Zeiss and another 40mm Konica lens on the bay of e!

It's great fun!!
 
Yep, I like playing with these old lenses. However, I still can't get any sensible metering out of my camera when I close down the aperture, I have to shoot, chimp the histogram and then adjust to get a correct exposure.

Nice shots BTW!
 
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