What is your favorite non-kit lens? [Discussion] - eviltoast

Personally I dig this weird little fella

It’s an old Soviet 16mm film projector lens adapted to a different vintage lens’s helicoid then adapted to Micro 4/3.

It’s a 50mm f/1.2 lens and it takes some weird photos. It’s not perfect (especially if the area is well lit) but it takes some interesting photos with a little practice.

Edit: And being a lens made for 16mm film it takes pictures just like a normal micro 4/3 50mm lens would.

  • conciselyverbose@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    The main lens I use now (Canon 5D Mk3) is a Sigma 50-500. It’s more fiddly than the Canon stuff, and if I wanted to pay twice as much I could get a Canon lens that did a better job at one end or the other of it’s range, but when you have decent light both of the 50 and somewhere close to the 500 can take some pretty nice pictures. If you need one specific shot, my Dad’s Canon 200-400 is definitely more reliable, but I really like being able to go on a hike with one lens and get a variety of types of shots, and I take hundreds to thousands on a good hike so I’m not bothered by missing a single shot.

    I also have a 24mm f/1.8 macro from them that’s even more niche (despite the wide angle, it’s not awesome for landscapes), but if you can get something close range, I really like the bokeh of the background and the subject is extremely sharp.