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

[Moto-Uno]

My old Mockba-5 with Provia 100F, without direct comparisons it's not too shabby! Peter

 

[Ko.Fe.]

With whom does this legendary lens have a bad reputation? 😕

Probably with same who put I-50 in the same list🙂

 

[Doug]

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. 🙂

 

[rodinal]

My old Mockba-5 with Provia 100F, without direct comparisons it's not too shabby!

Great photo Peter !

 

[Maiku]

More from

Camera: Minolta XE-7.

Lens: Sakar 35-70 f3.5-5.6 Macro zoom MC

 

[John E Earley]

Sony 16-50 e-mount kit zoom on an a6000.

 

[Dave Jenkins]

Ah well, today this is considered obsolete technology, a Nikon D70 with the plastic 28 - 80 kit lens.


Anne's legs, castle garden - 2006 by Ronald_H, on Flickr

The technology may be obsolete, but legs like that never go out of style!😉

 

[Dave Jenkins]

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."

 

[Dave Jenkins]

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."

 

[Taipei-metro]

Tokyo, Japan

pentax dslr, sigma 70-210 manual focus ka lens
taipeimetro

 

[Maiku]

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.

 

[Doug]

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!

 

[Dirk]

Vivitar 28mm 2.8 MC

Vivitar 28mm 2.8 MC

Caterpillar by FilmFlamMan, on Flickr

 

[Moto-Uno]

^And this is a questionable lenses ?
ps: Are we that spoiled ?
Peter

 

[Dirk]

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.

 

[jondotkom]

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.

 

[Swift1]

This is from a late 90s Pentax 28-80 kit lens , mounted to a Pentax PZ-1 loaded with E100G.

 

[Maiku]

Swift1,

That is a stellar photo!

Mike

 

[Swift1]

Swift1,

That is a stellar photo!

Mike

Thank you 🙂

 

[Maiku]

Photos from Vivitar 75-205mm f3.8 in Konica AR-mount. I cannot convince anyone it is any good.