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LOL! You're right, those extra 4mm do often cost!!
I meant to post this here but did so in the other thread so hoping someone following this and not the other one may be able to solve the issue im having with adapting a Tamron 90mm Adaptil lens to a fuji camera.
I have a Vivitar 55mm Nikon mount vintage lens, this fits perfectly onto the Nikon "Lens to Body" adaptor from K&F concept.
The Tamron 90mm Adaptil i have just got has a detachable "Adaptil" section that makes it fit a Nikon mount camera. This should be exactly the same as the mount on the Vivitar but it is not fitting the above mentioned Nikon "Lens to Body" adaptor correctly. The aperture ring that couples to the adaptil part of the lens is binding in the K&F Lens to Body Adaptor.
So what I need is a recommendation of an alternative manufacturer of a "Lens to Body" adaptor that has been used with a Tamron Adaptil lens with the Nikon fitment with out an issue,
TIA
I have one of these. Mine starts with 814. It's one of 2 lenses that I sent off to have the aperture blades "unstuck". I'm using it on my D700 at the moment. Haven't spotted any real Zebras though ... apart from crossings.Worth a go. I bought this one last night:
Just one more Chinon 28mm f2.8 picture.
Mrs WW watering the plants.
It does have mushy corners but IMO it doesn't always matter and although I'd like a cheap fun lens to be perfect sadly that's not always possible
You might want to buy her a watering can though, that's a lot of trips with that bottle
Weren't Chinon tied up with Dixons? I haven't tried one of their primes, but I do have a mid range zoom of theirs. Pretty little thing. Feels solid and handles well. Unfortunately the image quality is nothing to write home about, erring on the soft side and with dull colours. Pity. But then I got it for a song.
Yes, and at owned by Kodak at one time. There's a number of Wiki pages. They were still going making "toy" and helmet cameras in 2010. I don't know about now.
Chinon - Camera-wiki.org - The free camera encyclopedia
camera-wiki.org
"Currently (as of 2010) Chinon produce digital cameras such as the Superheadz/Digital hedgehog retro 110 style toy camera and the Tachyon helmet camera. They also produce film scanners and various other non camera related devices."
PS.
One reason I bought these lenses, apart from them being cheap, was that some reviews said they were soft and well... not very good and sometimes things like that pique my interest as sometimes lenses that some say aren't very good can be interesting
Super Takumar 135 on a Fuji XT10 First outing for this lens. Dropped my better half off at the chiropractors and had a play with this combo. Absolutely NOTHING of interest near to the car park. Finished up snapping tulips. I know what I would have liked the end result to be ,but ... flowers don't always grow exactly where you want them to. Concentrated trying to have one or two flowers in focus and the rest to be a bit blurred.
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Used one of the Fujifilm presets in Lightroom. Velvia vividNice colour. Is it tweaked at all?
Rooting through boxes in the loft that haven't been touched since we moved into our present house in 2005.
Found this wonderful image of a school (?) football team which my uncle played in.
He's on the front row, second from the right.
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I picked up a Pentax (M42) SMC Takumar 55mm f/1.8 in Brick Lane market today. Of course, I didn't have the M42 mount with me, so I couldn't check it out until I got home. It's scruffy but the glass looks OK, and a couple of test shots wide open are giving me acceptable results for, say, street shots. It focuses a lot closer than my Viltrox 56mm f/1.4, and I think I'll have some fun with it as an all-round lens.
The guy on the stall wanted £50 for it. Going by the prices on eBay (from about £23 up to about £230) for this lens, does this seem like an OK deal, or was he out front with a pair of binoculars, waiting for someone like me? (You can probably tell I'm new to vintage lenses...)
Coming in to land by Morris Bagnall, on Flickr
Prices are normally £25 to £60.
Thanks, Dunc. I didn't get fleeced too badly, then.
Thanks, Dunc. I didn't get fleeced too badly, then.
At least you got one in your hand rather than the lottery that evil bay can be.
As a partner to your 55mm a 24mm would IMO be a great option but maybe more expensive. I went for a Takumar 28mm f3.5 as it matches the build of the Takumar 50/55 and isn't prohibitable expensive.
I'm mostly a 35/50mm guy who occasionally uses a 20/24 or 28mm and even less occasionally a 85mm or longer.
I took these on a walk with a Nikon 85mm f2 AI-S.
Alan and Dunc: Thanks for your advice. I'm taking it in small steps. I took the 55mm out today and it looks like a keeper. Just need to learn its quirks. At midday I had it at 1/125 sec @ f16 at ISO 200, and had plenty of light. The distance scale seems to be off, though.
Love tip 3 in this vlog. "Finding out the strengths and weaknesses of each lens." SO true.
Mark Holtze
A while back I bought a couple of Nikon series E lenses, 28mm f2.8 and 35mm f2.5.
I bought these just out of interest as they're small and I got them relatively cheap. I did read on one famous bloggers site that the 28mm is awful and the worst prime Nikon ever made and that got me interested as sometimes "poor" lenses can maybe be rather interesting so I thought I'd give one a go and I have to disagree with that famous blogger as I find it to be a perfectly useable lens. Good even. Maybe that bad review was down to sample variation? But after saying that I have to say that I can't say that I've read a good review of this lens but maybe I just got lucky or perhaps I'm not that picky. I got the MK2 version which is IMO better looking than the MK1.
The 35mm f2.5 has a bit of a fault as it sometimes squeaks when moving the focus ring. It only does it in one direction and only when pointing downwards. I never complained as I got the lens cheap and maybe the seller knew there was a problem and therefore pitched the price low (but you should always declare a problem, IMO.) I think a clean and lubrication might sort this out but as it's a cheap lens I haven't bothered but I checked the "Sold" listings on evil bay today and saw what these lenses are selling for and they're going for a lot more than I paid so I think I will invest in a service
A few 28mm series E pictures.
I'm definitely going to send that 35mm f2.5 for a service soon