Looking for a good, poor quality wide lens

[nightfly]

I'm looking for a lens with some softness, flaring, vignetting and any other sort of random aberrations that can be made to fit a Leica M. Probably an old screw mount with an adapter. Something around 28-35mm maybe wider but not narrower. Nothing too expensive as it's for experimenting. Can be slow but not too big or fiddly. Don't want to do it with photoshop.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

 

[Bingley]

An Elmar 3.5 cm w/ some haze? Not much bigger than a lenscap, and one in user condition shouldn't be too expensive. Don't know about the vignetting, though.

 

[ItsReallyDarren]

Brillo pad to a lens element will give somewhat poor results fairly fast. You could also open up the lens and flip an element, those give interesting effects.

For a cheap experimental lens try a Canon 35 with 3.2 or 3.5 aperture.

 

[johannielscom]

Get a Jupiter 35mm and mount a filter with lotsa dirty fingers, as well as a 50mm lens hood. Easy and it does the job.

Although I am pretty sure that Sally Mann-looking shots you are looking for are best accomplished with a large format camera and an old Petzal lens...

 

[Nando]

Why not a lens-cap with a pinhole?

 

[johannielscom]

Or get an Industar 69 to mount on your Leica.

 

[rlouzan]

Pinhole/zone plate lens cap

 

[Dave Wilkinson]

LOL!....to think - I've just spent fifty years trying to avoid 'em!

 

[nightfly]

Any old 28mm?

 

[k.a]

Any old 28mm?

as already suggested, the industar-69 is a non-rangefinder coupled 28mm lens with an appature f2.8. on a m8 it has some vignetting, on a fullframe m9 it has a lot more.

photo taken with a m8

 

[nightfly]

I had gotten the idea that the Industar-69 was more than 28mm because it was a half frame lens and somehow translated to more than this on a full frame. Will be using a film Leica.

Will give it another look. Price is right.

Any other sources besides Russian sellers on Ebay?

 

[batterytypehah!]

Excellent idea but beware of ebay sellers who hawk this lens on its own as an LTM lens. It's not, it was designed for the half-frame Chaika and doesn't cover 24x36 (which, I gather, is fine with you). Nobody seems quite sure why it unscrews.

Buy one attached to a Chaika. You'll probably save money, and get a half-frame camera in the deal.

 

[batterytypehah!]

I had gotten the idea that the Industar-69 was more than 28mm because it was a half frame lens and somehow translated to more than this on a full frame. Will be using a film Leica.

Check out the link to Zorkikat already given above.

 

[nightfly]

Missed the link, thanks.

 

[LeicaFoReVer]

orion-15 is a decent lens.

you can get a crappy 28mm for minolta, canon or nikon SLR mount and use novoflex adaptors

 

[Steve M.]

Just send me the best lens you have and I'll fix it right up for you. No charge. Always willing to please.