Huss
Veteran
Just picked up this perfect condition Nikon F75 for $8.
I put a Sigma Art 50 1.4 lens on it for my entry into the cheapest/most expensive combo:
(yeah I could have put a Zeiss ZF.2 lens on it, but this baby deserves an AF lens!)
Watchoo got? I'm figuring a winner would be some Soviet ltm body w/ a limited edition ltm Summilux... Or is someone out there shooting a Kiev 19 with a Zeiss Otus?!
I put a Sigma Art 50 1.4 lens on it for my entry into the cheapest/most expensive combo:
(yeah I could have put a Zeiss ZF.2 lens on it, but this baby deserves an AF lens!)
Watchoo got? I'm figuring a winner would be some Soviet ltm body w/ a limited edition ltm Summilux... Or is someone out there shooting a Kiev 19 with a Zeiss Otus?!
Archiver
Veteran
This is difficult because I, uhhh, don't own too many cheap camera bodies 
The cheapest cameras I own are point and shoots like the Olympus Trip and 110 cassette cameras, so the most expensive combination would be to load them with Portra or something more expensive.
The cheapest bodies I own (least expensive) are my Dad's old SLR bodies, the wonderful Pentax ME and Minolta SR-T. I've actually thought about buying some modern Zeiss PK mount lenses for the ME; using something new and lovely on a near-mint late 70s camera would be super cool.
The cheapest cameras I own are point and shoots like the Olympus Trip and 110 cassette cameras, so the most expensive combination would be to load them with Portra or something more expensive.
The cheapest bodies I own (least expensive) are my Dad's old SLR bodies, the wonderful Pentax ME and Minolta SR-T. I've actually thought about buying some modern Zeiss PK mount lenses for the ME; using something new and lovely on a near-mint late 70s camera would be super cool.
pyeh
Member of good standing
Me too. Through a long history of injudicious acquisitions I have no cheap camera bodies. I do have a free Jupiter 8 though that was thrown in with a body I bought, so I could reverse the formula and have a cheap lens on an expensive body.
kiemchacsu
Well-known
I do not have cheap bodies camera at the moment either. only Leica and Rolleiflex
I used to have a FM2N but I guess that doesnt fit the criteria in the OP
I used to have a FM2N but I guess that doesnt fit the criteria in the OP
santino
FSU gear head
That would be my yashica fx 7 (10 euros) with my c/y zeiss lenses.
zuiko85
Veteran
Mine would be a Sears KS500 (Ricoh KR5) with the standard 50 f2. Picked up at a camera show for $5 and it even had good meter batteries.
A pleasant little SLR, easy to focus, not too loud, fairly light weight and fully mechanical so it will operate even with dead or no batteries.
I quite like it. If any company has the courage to produce a new 35mm SLR today they could do a lot worse than just copy this camera but increase the top shutter speed from 1/500 to 1/1000 and include a DoF preview feature. Those are the only changes I’d make.
A pleasant little SLR, easy to focus, not too loud, fairly light weight and fully mechanical so it will operate even with dead or no batteries.
I quite like it. If any company has the courage to produce a new 35mm SLR today they could do a lot worse than just copy this camera but increase the top shutter speed from 1/500 to 1/1000 and include a DoF preview feature. Those are the only changes I’d make.
zuiko85
Veteran
Ah, I see I misunderstood your original premise. Must learn to read carefully.
Well...I just cannot think of any cheap/expensive (body/lens) combos I would have. Pretty much a bottom feeder all the way.
Except possibly in reverse. I have a Leica M4-2 and have mounted a 28mm f8, two element plastic lens into a body cap, fixed at infinity. The lens came from a plastic 35mm labeled Bell & Howell (you know the type) picked up in a thrift store for $2, so that might qualify.
Well...I just cannot think of any cheap/expensive (body/lens) combos I would have. Pretty much a bottom feeder all the way.
Except possibly in reverse. I have a Leica M4-2 and have mounted a 28mm f8, two element plastic lens into a body cap, fixed at infinity. The lens came from a plastic 35mm labeled Bell & Howell (you know the type) picked up in a thrift store for $2, so that might qualify.
filmtwit
Desperate but not serious
Cheapist - Leica CL with a busted meter for a $100, I think I then ran a 18mm f4 zeiss zm on in for about a year.
taemo
eat sleep shoot
couple of years ago.. M240 with a Jupiter 8 lens
aizan
Veteran
Leica MP and a Canon 28/2.8 LTM works out to a 13:1 ratio, and I was thinking about getting a Voigtlander 125/2.5 APO-Lanthar SL for the Canon EOS 600. That would be around a 75:1 ratio.
Takkun
Ian M.
Put a D850 through a few tests, and wanted to try out a wide-angle; borrowed a bog standard 18-55 from a relative. Didn't really remember that a DX lens is going to be cropped anyway, but used it to illustrate to a relative I'm teaching photography to that an 18mm DX is not the same as an 18 full frame!
Brother traded up from a D50 to something newer, and to test functionality before finding a home for it, popped on an 85/1.4. That little focus motor was trying its hardest, but pictures looked good now as then.
Other than that, like many, cheap vintage LTMs on a new digital body.
Brother traded up from a D50 to something newer, and to test functionality before finding a home for it, popped on an 85/1.4. That little focus motor was trying its hardest, but pictures looked good now as then.
Other than that, like many, cheap vintage LTMs on a new digital body.
css9450
Veteran
I have a Kmart "Focal" 28mm M42 lens; I've used it on my a6000 digital and my CL film camera (the latter requires two adapters! ) but I don't really have anything terribly expensive I can shoot it on. But for $12, its a lens that is overpriced by almost ANY camera!
) but I don't really have anything terribly expensive I can shoot it on. But for $12, its a lens that is overpriced by almost ANY camera!ktmrider
Well-known
Cheapest is a chrome Nikon F paired with either the 55f3.5 Micro Nikkor or 50 f1..4 Nikkor while the most expensive is a Leica MP240 paired with 50 Summicron.
Chriscrawfordphoto
Real Men Shoot Film.
Huss,
You and many others here are using expensive lenses on cheap cameras. My combo is the opposite. I have an Olympus OM-D E-M1 mark II, a $1700 body, that I bought new a few months ago that I am using quite a lot with a Panasonic 45-150mm f4-5.6 zoom that cost me just $150 new.
I'd love the 40-150mm f2.8 Olympus Pro lens, but its more than I can afford now, and it is so big and heavy that I wouldn't be able to keep it in my everyday carry bag. The cheap Panasonic is TINY and light and very sharp, even wide open. It really only has one flaw: it vignettes a lot unless stopped down to f8 on the wide end or f11 on the long end.
I shot this with the Panasonic 45-150mm at the 150mm zoom setting, ISO-3200, 1/20 at f9 handheld with the Olympus Pen-F (IBIS is awesome! handheld 1/20 with a lens that is like a 300mm on fullframe.)
I shot this one with the Panasonic 45-150mm at the 45mm zoom setting, ISO-3200, handheld at 1/15, wide open at f4 on the OM-D E-M1 mark II.
You and many others here are using expensive lenses on cheap cameras. My combo is the opposite. I have an Olympus OM-D E-M1 mark II, a $1700 body, that I bought new a few months ago that I am using quite a lot with a Panasonic 45-150mm f4-5.6 zoom that cost me just $150 new.
I'd love the 40-150mm f2.8 Olympus Pro lens, but its more than I can afford now, and it is so big and heavy that I wouldn't be able to keep it in my everyday carry bag. The cheap Panasonic is TINY and light and very sharp, even wide open. It really only has one flaw: it vignettes a lot unless stopped down to f8 on the wide end or f11 on the long end.
I shot this with the Panasonic 45-150mm at the 150mm zoom setting, ISO-3200, 1/20 at f9 handheld with the Olympus Pen-F (IBIS is awesome! handheld 1/20 with a lens that is like a 300mm on fullframe.)
I shot this one with the Panasonic 45-150mm at the 45mm zoom setting, ISO-3200, handheld at 1/15, wide open at f4 on the OM-D E-M1 mark II.
narsuitus
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Decades ago, I purchased a brand new Nikon EM for $243.50. Three years ago, I purchased a used Nikon EM for $23. The EM is my cheapest Nikon body that accepts F-mount lenses.
My most expensive F-mount lens is a 500mm f/4 Nikkor.
I have never needed to mount the 500mm on the EM but if I did, it would be my cheapest/most expensive combo.
Nikkor 500mm Lens by Narsuitus, on Flickr
My most expensive F-mount lens is a 500mm f/4 Nikkor.
I have never needed to mount the 500mm on the EM but if I did, it would be my cheapest/most expensive combo.
Nikkor 500mm Lens by Narsuitus, on Flickr
kxl
Social Documentary
Just picked up this perfect condition Nikon F75 for $8.
I put a Sigma Art 50 1.4 lens on it for my entry into the cheapest/most expensive combo:
(yeah I could have put a Zeiss ZF.2 lens on it, but this baby deserves an AF lens!)
Watchoo got? I'm figuring a winner would be some Soviet ltm body w/ a limited edition ltm Summilux... Or is someone out there shooting a Kiev 19 with a Zeiss Otus?!
I have the same combo. In fact, the reason I bought the cheap F75 was to shoot my Sigma ART lenses (24, 35, 50 and 24-105) on a film body. The F75 is definitely my cheapest body. My most expensive lens would be my Nikon 70-200mm/2.8.
B-9
Devin Bro
Im all cheap.
50$ 50/1.8 MKI on a 50$ EOS 1
Otherwise it was probably the M8 with a USER Nickel Elmar. Camera cost me atleast 12 times what the lens did. Really was a great combo for me.
50$ 50/1.8 MKI on a 50$ EOS 1
Otherwise it was probably the M8 with a USER Nickel Elmar. Camera cost me atleast 12 times what the lens did. Really was a great combo for me.
Phil_F_NM
Camera hacker
This is an interesting idea.
Maybe a free Nikon FM with an 85mm f/1.4 AIS. I don't own either of those anymore but that was probably the greatest disparity. Nowadays it could be a free Nikon FA with 50/1.2.
Or my F2 with pre-AI 5cm f/2 Nikkor H. The lens was almost free.
My Nagaoka 4x5 cost me something significant plus a lot of work refitting a new bellows. My Kodak meniscus lens in ball bearing shutter cost me about $3 I think.
I could go on...
Phil Forrest
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Maybe a free Nikon FM with an 85mm f/1.4 AIS. I don't own either of those anymore but that was probably the greatest disparity. Nowadays it could be a free Nikon FA with 50/1.2.
Or my F2 with pre-AI 5cm f/2 Nikkor H. The lens was almost free.
My Nagaoka 4x5 cost me something significant plus a lot of work refitting a new bellows. My Kodak meniscus lens in ball bearing shutter cost me about $3 I think.
I could go on...
Phil Forrest
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