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The worst lens you ever had ... a collection of stories
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The worst lens you ever had ... a collection of stories
Andy Hewitt wrote: My worst lens ever has been the Miranda 35-70 two touch zoom for my OM40. Truly awful, not a single picture comes out in focus. Mine was a Vivitar Series 1 70-210 f/2.8-4.5 zoom. My brother got a similar lens but it was constant max aperture at f/4 I think, and it is a GREAT lens. Mine wouldn't focus at infinity, and never seemed sharp no matter how much I tried. My best lens is the 50mm F1.4 Zuiko I have for the OM. Truly a classic lens. Maybe I got a dud, but I've never really liked my Zuiko 50mm f1.4. Just seems "dull" to me, and the distortion is obvious. I could never put my finger on why I didn't use that lens much... but then I got a Contax G1 and ended up with the 45mm f/2 lens in the collection. Holy cow! What a difference - better color saturation, pin sharp, and seems like no distortion. I think the worst lens I've come across lately, though, is the 18-45mm zoom that Canon supplies as "standard" with their Digital Rebel and other digital SLRs. Cheap plastic junk that produces truly terrible images. I like a lot of their other lenses, though. Karl Winkler http://www.karlwinkler.com http://www.giovanniquartet.com |
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The worst lens you ever had ... a collection of stories
Karl Winkler wrote:
Andy Hewitt wrote: My worst lens ever has been the Miranda 35-70 two touch zoom for my OM40. Truly awful, not a single picture comes out in focus. Mine was a Vivitar Series 1 70-210 f/2.8-4.5 zoom. My brother got a similar lens but it was constant max aperture at f/4 I think, and it is a GREAT lens. Mine wouldn't focus at infinity, and never seemed sharp no matter how much I tried. My best lens is the 50mm F1.4 Zuiko I have for the OM. Truly a classic lens. Maybe I got a dud, but I've never really liked my Zuiko 50mm f1.4. Just seems "dull" to me, and the distortion is obvious. I could never put my finger on why I didn't use that lens much... but then I got a Contax G1 and ended up with the 45mm f/2 lens in the collection. Holy cow! What a difference - better color saturation, pin sharp, and seems like no distortion. I would say so, the Zuiko lenses were generally regarded as some of the best lenses ever made, and the 50mm F1.4 was a rare beast too (they usually supplied a F1.8 with the cameras), but I get superb pics from mine. I think the worst lens I've come across lately, though, is the 18-45mm zoom that Canon supplies as "standard" with their Digital Rebel and other digital SLRs. Cheap plastic junk that produces truly terrible images. I like a lot of their other lenses, though. I think that's true of much modern stuff though. -- Andy Hewitt ** FAF#1, (Ex-OSOS#5) - FJ1200 ABS Windows free zone (Mac G5 Dual Processor) http://andyhewitt.webhop.net/ (updated Jan 2006) |
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The worst lens you ever had ... a collection of stories
Yes, Mike, but if a bat breaks you can pick up one of those old Cambron
500mm "bats" and use. Don't do that in football! Does Leica make broadcast lenses? I see more Canon and Fujinon in that arena. Collin |
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The worst lens you ever had ... a collection of stories
Andy Hewitt wrote: I would say so, the Zuiko lenses were generally regarded as some of the best lenses ever made Not by me. They were no better than Pentax or Minolta lenses. Typical Japanese lenses: nothing to see here folks, move along now... , and the 50mm F1.4 was a rare beast too (they usually supplied a F1.8 with the cameras), but I get superb pics from mine. I think the worst lens I've come across lately, though, is the 18-45mm zoom that Canon supplies as "standard" with their Digital Rebel and other digital SLRs. Cheap plastic junk that produces truly terrible images. I like a lot of their other lenses, though. I think that's true of much modern stuff though. -- Andy Hewitt ** FAF#1, (Ex-OSOS#5) - FJ1200 ABS Windows free zone (Mac G5 Dual Processor) http://andyhewitt.webhop.net/ (updated Jan 2006) |
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The worst lens you ever had ... a collection of stories
Mike,
You're just being nice. "SMC" used to mean more than a trademark. It's still a good thing, but has been equalled by most all the mfrs. Except maybe Canon. I just can't get into their color correction scheme. Nikon got it perfect on their process lenses. I've (personally) seen nothing sharper and contrastier those 360 APO Nikkor lenses that Dagor77 sells. They're just expensive to have mounted in Copal 3S shutters. I used one a couple of years ago when starting 8x10. Even on Forte film the results were knockout. Even better on Ilford iso125 OEM that Midwest was carrying. Yet you know, when it comes to making an excellent print, give me a good lens on the camera and an equal one on the enlarger. We'd all like to be Ansel or Edward. But there's not enough time. So a high quality result may often need be enough to satisfy the hobbyist. It's easy to try too hard and remove the pleasure from the hobby was once so satisfying. I really must try to avoid becoming a gearhead. Collin |
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The worst lens you ever had ... a collection of stories
"Alan Browne" wrote in message ... Nicholas O. Lindan wrote: What is/are the worst lens/es you every took a picture with? Maxxum 28-80xi -- The one with that autozoom function? Big mistake. Mechanically a very bad lens. Doesn't feel good, especially when you're used to manual focus lenses (like Pentax). I bought one with a 7xi camera but it went back to the shop before I even shot one film with it. Bakhuys (Pentax 67II, Pentax LX, Minolta 9) |
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The worst lens you ever had ... a collection of stories
Kind of hard when you're shooting DIRECTLY INTO THE LIGHT. Duh!
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The worst lens you ever had ... a collection of stories
Bakhuys wrote:
"Alan Browne" wrote in message ... Nicholas O. Lindan wrote: What is/are the worst lens/es you every took a picture with? Maxxum 28-80xi -- The one with that autozoom function? Big mistake. Mechanically a very bad lens. Doesn't feel good, especially when you're used to manual focus lenses (like Pentax). I bought one with a 7xi camera but it went back to the shop before I even shot one film with it. I used it for several years, it did have the redeeming feature of being compact. In its (alebit narrow) sweetspot, it was quite sharp if prone to slight vignetting. Mechanically, there was nothing wrong with it, IMO, just the powered-zoom and powered focus were very annoying. Needless to say, when I bought the 28-70 f/2.8 (Maxxum) the 28-80xi quickly went up for sale ... and astonishingly sold quickly for a good price ... meaning somebody didn't know what they were getting into. Cheers, Alan -- -- r.p.e.35mm user resource: http://www.aliasimages.com/rpe35mmur.htm -- r.p.d.slr-systems: http://www.aliasimages.com/rpdslrsysur.htm -- [SI] gallery & rulz: http://www.pbase.com/shootin -- e-meil: Remove FreeLunch. |
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