08-20-2016, 12:28 PM
In the days of film I used to have a special liking for the old
vivitar series one 90 f2.5
contax c/y 25f2.8mm (the ae version i hated; there was a change optically with the mm version)
contax 100f3.5 (still a very good lens but i sold my copy as too lazy to use adaptors and film is a pia (also sold my film cameras a few years ago)
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I had a voigt 125f2.5 apo but sold it - only used it once or twice but never really loved it. Didn't hurt that prices for the lens were very low when I purchased and astromical when I sold.
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only modern lens I had a special liking for was the olympus 12-60 f2.8-f4 but in part because for such a wide range it was decent; the lens it self wasn't magic but it wasn't bad.
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These days I mostly shoot micro 4/3 and fuji but in reality I don't take that many artistic pictures.
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Another lens i liked a *lot* were the mamiya 7 lenses; these really were fantastic if you took the time to use the system. I esp liked the 150f4.5 and 65f4. They were extremely sharp with high saturation and decent rendering.
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If fuji medium format system has lenses like those I might bite the bullet. To be honest I've been very disappointed with modern systems rendering. Perhaps I am more picky but digital system seem to have highlighted annoying flaws (esp chromatic shift); though olympus has also done a very poor job with fast lens rendering (50-200; 300; and a few others).
vivitar series one 90 f2.5
contax c/y 25f2.8mm (the ae version i hated; there was a change optically with the mm version)
contax 100f3.5 (still a very good lens but i sold my copy as too lazy to use adaptors and film is a pia (also sold my film cameras a few years ago)
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I had a voigt 125f2.5 apo but sold it - only used it once or twice but never really loved it. Didn't hurt that prices for the lens were very low when I purchased and astromical when I sold.
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only modern lens I had a special liking for was the olympus 12-60 f2.8-f4 but in part because for such a wide range it was decent; the lens it self wasn't magic but it wasn't bad.
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These days I mostly shoot micro 4/3 and fuji but in reality I don't take that many artistic pictures.
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Another lens i liked a *lot* were the mamiya 7 lenses; these really were fantastic if you took the time to use the system. I esp liked the 150f4.5 and 65f4. They were extremely sharp with high saturation and decent rendering.
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If fuji medium format system has lenses like those I might bite the bullet. To be honest I've been very disappointed with modern systems rendering. Perhaps I am more picky but digital system seem to have highlighted annoying flaws (esp chromatic shift); though olympus has also done a very poor job with fast lens rendering (50-200; 300; and a few others).