W/NW Photos with lenses that have less than stellar reputations!

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My old Mockba-5 with Provia 100F, without direct comparisons it's not too shabby! Peter
 
This is the Cosina-Voigtlander Skopar 50mm f/2.5 on an M2 with Fuji 800Z.
When I got it cheaply 10 years ago it was then reputed to be "soft". Early-on I took a series of shots to try to reveal its nature... it didn't seem soft to me, but there's a touch of pincushion distortion. Its reputation has since been rehabilitated. :)
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Vivitar 75-205mm f3.8 zoom in Olympus OM mount on an OM-2n body. 1989, a remote village in the northern Guatemala mountains. Fujichrome 100. This photo has always looked plenty sharp to me, but of course, it was taken in early morning in what I call "sharp light."
 

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Olympus E-PL1 with the first version of the 14-42 f3.5-5.6 zoom. Not a highly rated lens, but this photograph of Starr's Mill was chosen over one made with my 5D classic to run 12x12 inches in my book "Georgia: A Backroads Portrait."
 

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Dave,

That Vivitar 75-205mm f3.8 zoom in any mount seems to punch above its weight. The photos I took with it are wonderful.
 
Taipei-Metro, the uneven green of the tennis court makes it more interesting. Looks like these guys are warming up to swat some tennis balls!
 
Just goes to show you that even "questionable" lenses are pretty good these days. Everything is relative, it seems. But not only that; sometimes lens flaws contribute to a photograph's artistic merits or at least don't stand in the way of it.
 
Whoa! Some really images taken with such a marvelously motley collection of lenses--many of which I have never even heard of!

Goes a long way to show that the photographer's vision, more than anything else, creates a great shot.
 
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