Bigfoot, Nessie, inexpensive fast wide-angle

[JoeFriday]

does anyone have conclusive evidence that any of these exist? I'd like to find a lens in the 21-28mm range that's faster than f4, but under $500

I also like stories about bigfoot, nessie and ufos, in case you've seen any

 

[jorisbens]

I can't help you with the lens, but I've seen nessie been abducted by bigfoot, who came from an UFO.

Hopefully for JoeFriday my stupid post doesn't kill this thread 🙂

Joris

 

[rover]

There is the rumored Kobalux at 2.8 in 28mm and 21mm right? Pretty big, but fast, that is what I hear. I have never seen one though.

 

[JoeFriday]

ah yes.. the Kobalux.. a very interesting thought.. but there we're talking about $500 plus the cost of a viewfinder.. so $600 or more.. still, that's close

 

[Flyfisher Tom]

Brett,

Indeed the beast does exist .... look here:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Kobalux-Super-W...ryZ30063QQssPageNameZWD1VQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

And it meets your price requirement with $1 to spare ! good luck

 

[Flyfisher Tom]

Our president has just assured us that all is well, so that $1 should get you very far indeed ;-)

 

[JoeFriday]

I now remember this lens from the FEDKA website.. I emailed them and tried to convince them that a viewfinder was supposed to be included, in which case I would have bought it a month ago.. but they politely told me I was full of sh*t.. LOL

actually, I might have to give that some very serious thought (the lens, not the possibility of me being full of it).. altho I'd prefer a 28mm

 

[wlewisiii]

He does have a best offer link...

:angel:

William

 

[kbg32]

does anyone have conclusive evidence that any of these exist? I'd like to find a lens in the 21-28mm range that's faster than f4, but under $500

I also like stories about bigfoot, nessie and ufos, in case you've seen any

Brett,

I have a Canon Serenar 28 f3.5, no finder, that I might consider selling. 🙂

 

[jmilkins]

How about the Ricoh GR28/ 2.8 in LSM... I love it on the GR1s

From the great CameraQuest site : " 28/2.8 Ricoh from the GR-1, introduced in the Japanese market for 1998. Production is limited to 3,000 lenses. A small, lightweight, relatively inexpensive lens, but not quite up to Leica lens performance. Same lens as on the GR-1. .."

Dunno if it fits the $ limit though - what's "relatively inexpensive" in Leica terms?

And of course if you actually find one you can only take pics of Nessie and Big foot...oh and a Bunyip. And I'd still be jealous as.

A review : http://www.imx.nl/photosite/japan/japanese28.html

 

[VinceC]

If you're into Nikon RF or Contax RF mount, I have a chrome Nikkor 2.8cm f/3.5 that I'm ready to sell. Under $200. (Cheap for a Nikkor ... it's seen a lot of use but the glass is fine).

 

[JoeFriday]

He does have a best offer link...

:angel:

William

I was already there.. but thanks!

 

[Kin Lau]

The CV 28/3.5 is $285 without a VF and the 28/1.9 is $444 at Cameraquest. The Russian turret finder has a 28mm VF, and parallax shouldn't be an issue @ 28mm.

A 28/2.8 + old SLR is probably the cheapest option out there. There's a few 24/2.8's out there too.

 

[VinceC]

For $250, you could buy one of Stephen Gandy's SLR-to-M adapters

here

then mount any old $50 SLR wide-angle and still have $99.99 to buy a finder.

 

[JoeFriday]

but wouldn't an SLR wide-angle suffer from distortion?

 

[Kin Lau]

For a little less 🙂... my Pentax SMC 28/3.5 was about $20-, m42 -> ltm adapter $25-, turret finder $40-.

 

[XAos]

This is SLR, and gone, but there was a Sigma Kaf 28mm f/1.8 lens in bargain condition on KEH for $99 the other day. And some IDIOT with several k-mount cameras and lenses let it slip away in the name of fiscal responsibility. (I also didn't have quite the proper idea just HOW good of a bargain it was.) I know a lot of people don't like sigmas, but I'm more than happy with the one I've been using. I've never seen anything that wide fast and cheap.

 

[VinceC]

A lot of SLR wideangles are fairly free of distortion (probably moreso than any cheap RF alternative, which would necessarily have to be an old design).

 

[XAos]

A lot of SLR wideangles are fairly free of distortion (probably moreso than any cheap RF alternative, which would necessarily have to be an old design).

I thought it was the other way around. The retrofocus thing made it more difficult for an SLR lens to be as wide for the same focal length as in rangefinders.

 

[VinceC]

More difficult, but they still did it, just more complexly. There are a lot of good manual-focus SLR lenses on Ebay these days because everybody's dumping them. The Nikkor 28mm and 24mm f/2.8 lenses were really first class ... use a floating element to fix distortion and have out-of-this-world bokeh. Early ones can be had for well under $100. (Too bad I only shoot RFs these days).