Comments on: Our Favorite Lenses as Chosen by Your Favorite Camera Geeks https://casualphotophile.com/2020/04/24/our-favorite-lenses-as-chosen-by-your-favorite-camera-geeks/ Cameras and Photography Fri, 05 Jan 2024 00:17:37 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Cdlinz https://casualphotophile.com/2020/04/24/our-favorite-lenses-as-chosen-by-your-favorite-camera-geeks/#comment-22888 Fri, 05 Jan 2024 00:17:37 +0000 https://casualphotophile.com/?p=19639#comment-22888 A few years back i fell hard for the konica hexar af and its ‘legendary’ 35/2. Unfortunately I couldn’t keep a copy functioning. Imagine my joy to find that Konica made 1000 exact copies of this lens for LTM. It’s a tiny little jewel of brass and paint and I love he way it renders.

]]> By: Martin https://casualphotophile.com/2020/04/24/our-favorite-lenses-as-chosen-by-your-favorite-camera-geeks/#comment-22885 Wed, 03 Jan 2024 16:40:49 +0000 https://casualphotophile.com/?p=19639#comment-22885 I’m absolutely with you James on the 45mm f/2 Planar on my G1 – lovely! The only 2 that come close in my collection are the Rokkor 75mm f/3.5 in my Minolta Autocord and the Zuiko 38mm f/1.8 on my Olympus Pen FT – amazing lens for a tiny body!

]]> By: JR Smith https://casualphotophile.com/2020/04/24/our-favorite-lenses-as-chosen-by-your-favorite-camera-geeks/#comment-22879 Tue, 02 Jan 2024 18:30:23 +0000 https://casualphotophile.com/?p=19639#comment-22879 55mm f/2.8 Micro-Nikkor!

]]> By: Jens https://casualphotophile.com/2020/04/24/our-favorite-lenses-as-chosen-by-your-favorite-camera-geeks/#comment-22873 Sat, 30 Dec 2023 14:03:48 +0000 https://casualphotophile.com/?p=19639#comment-22873 Agreed to Jim Gray :
Minolta and Konica designed in the late 70’s and in the early 80’s very similar lenses like Nikon with the Nikkor Ai 35mmf2.8. All of them got a modern 5/5 lens design. The image quality , especially in the corners, and the overall performance at f2.8 and f4.0 improved noticeably.
My experiences with the late Minolta MD Rokkor 35mmf2.8 and with the last version of Konica Hexanon 35mmf2.8 are very good, superb lenses !
I use them on Minolta and Konica SLR’s with lots of joy !

]]> By: Jens Knappe https://casualphotophile.com/2020/04/24/our-favorite-lenses-as-chosen-by-your-favorite-camera-geeks/#comment-20900 Sat, 18 Jun 2022 11:30:07 +0000 https://casualphotophile.com/?p=19639#comment-20900 With M42 cameras like Praktica, Spotmatics, Fujicas i can recommend Carl Zeiss Jena, 1.8 or 2.0/50mm Pancolar lenses. Another wonderful options are the Takumars 1.8/55mm or 1.4/50mm.
With Minolta cameras i recommend the Rokkor 1.4/50mm. But lovely too : Rokkor – PF 2/50mm or 1.7/55mm.

]]> By: carandmel https://casualphotophile.com/2020/04/24/our-favorite-lenses-as-chosen-by-your-favorite-camera-geeks/#comment-16318 Fri, 09 Jul 2021 00:13:05 +0000 https://casualphotophile.com/?p=19639#comment-16318 Amazing list! From all of them the four Carl Zeiss, the two leicas and the Zuiko really appeal to me. The Olympus XA has a great little glass that is super sharp, with great contrast and color rendition. I am happy to recently have purchased two Contax SLR and two Carl Zeiss C/Y: a Planar 50mm f/1.7 and a Sonnar 45mm f/2.8.

I will test the Planar today with a Contax 139q and a roll of Ilford HP5 400 and I’m very excited. 😀

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