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I recently got a tamron adaptall 80-210 off here and i love it.

I want to know what other manual lenses i can look out for that can fit my nikon d300s that are decent and don't cost to much.

Tony.
 
manualfocus-g said:
All the tamron sp lenses are decent. Plus of course you have the whole range of Nikon ai and Ais lenses to use.
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Sorry to sound like a tool but what are the tamron sp range?

This is my first manual lens and i was in nappys when film was about lol.
 
try and get some of the old AiS nikkors Tony.

Great quality, if you can find any at a reasonable price nowadays.

I have a 50mm 1.4 and a 35 F2, both superb optically.
 
Any tamron lens with SP written on it!

There are always peple raving about them, I personally have found every one I've used very 'meh'. Of course people also rave about Nikon lenses which I'd also describe as meh too.

Lenses you can use and get the best from on Nikon are few and far between unless you want to shoot macro, the best old lenses (other than Zeiss and Leica and their high class ilk) are Pentax, Olympus and Minolta - whose adapters all need glass in them to allow infinity focus on a Nikon body.

If you want to stick to Nikon mount, then watch out for Vivitar Series 1 lenses, they're all good but heavy, Newer Tokinas are pretty good but they tend to be mostly slow lenses, they're often much more compact than their competitors.

Old Sigmas are to be avoided like the plague, they are of utterly woeful construction and with the exception of the 24mm and 28mm f2.8 primes. pretty bad optically too.
 
The Nikkor 105/2.5 is a decent lens, although not quite up to a Zeiss Sonnar quality. The Tamron SP range is decent for the low prices they sell for, a good example being the 35-80. The longer lenses suffer purple fringing though, so be careful. The 60-300mm is a good performer but needs to be stopped down to f/7.1 to avoid fringing.
 
manualfocus-g said:
You're better off buying a Samyang 8mm than an old fisheye TBH. Old fisheye lenses were designed for full frame cameras and thus won't be as wide on a crop camera.
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I had one for my canon and when i switched to nikon i swaped my canon mount for a nikon mount but i felt it didn't work as well.
 
duttytd said:
I had one for my canon and when i switched to nikon i swaped my canon mount for a nikon mount but i felt it didn't work as well.
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Is it possible then that you picked up a dodgy copy? The lens will be even wider on Nikon than Canon, as Canon use a 1.6x crop factor whereas the D300s has a 1.5x crop factor.
 
Lots of great M42 screw mount lenses out there, you just need an M42 to Nikon adaptor.

Glad you're still enjoying using the Tamron.

Andy
 
manualfocus-g said:
Is it possible then that you picked up a dodgy copy? The lens will be even wider on Nikon than Canon, as Canon use a 1.6x crop factor whereas the D300s has a 1.5x crop factor.
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Maybe but the person i sold it on to was very happy with it where as i was not as happy as i was with my canon one.

I may just bite the bullet and get a nikon 15mm

But i still want to get a very long lens and a nice portrait lens both manual.
 
Andysnap said:
Lots of great M42 screw mount lenses out there, you just need an M42 to Nikon adaptor.

Glad you're still enjoying using the Tamron.

Andy
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It has really got me wanting more manual lenses Andy. I think i have a bug for manual lol.
 
Anthony, Camtech have some Nikkor manual focus wide angle lenses LINK, they are near the bottom of the page.
 
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