…eBay Elmar-R 180mm f/4 2785651-3617888 11502 200 400 Find on eBay Telyt-R 250mm f/4 (I) 2406001-2977250 9000 150 750 Find on eBay Telyt-R 250mm f/4 (II) 3050601-3617889 3663 150 750 Find on eBay APO-Telyt-R 280mm f/2.8 3280401-3740711 3011 2000 3000 Find on eBay APO-Telyt-R 280mm f/4 3621833-3803859* N/A 1500 2500 Find on eBay Telyt-R 350mm f/4.8 2991151-3404000 2650 1000 3000 Find on eBay APO-Telyt-R 400mm f/2.8 3445901-3625400 390 3000 5000 Find… Continue Reading
…e numbers suggest. Here is a comparsion between the 50mm/4 Flektogon and a 50mm 1.4 Nikon (both at wide open). 50mm/4 Flektogon wide open (click to enlarge) 50mm 1.4 Nikon wide open (click to enlarge) It is quite easy to get adapters to go on Canon EF-mount cameras or Nikon. One word of caution. When you buy a 50/4 Flektagon, make sure it looks like this. Sometimes air has entered this huge lens and causes the glue to decompose. All the black gets… Continue Reading
…solutely no reason not to try it! Click to find this lens on Ebay Canon FD 50mm F1.4 – The Value-For-Money Lens. It might not be as “magical” as Helios, but it’s my real workhouse, that I use on most of my paid work (my review). The nFD (new FD) version of this lens might not look like the most solid lens in the world, but it reality it handles any abuse I throw on it and it’s actually more solid than the other 2 lenses featured in this post. As m… Continue Reading
…s on VEGA7-1 as is the sensor coverage and sharpness. Now considering that 50mm lenses are generally so cheap, why would I use this lens instead of a faster 50mm, like F1.4 or F1.8? If want to keep Russian style, why not just use Helios 44-2, which is so similar on paper and well known to be a great lens? The main reason why I would still use TAIR-41M over other lenses would be if I used it in conjunction with other 2 lenses from this set. All 3 w… Continue Reading
…50mm F1.4 + Metabones Speed Booster is just over $1000, while the Canon FD 50mm F1.4 + Lens Turbo II combination will cost no more than $250, if you’re lucky $200. When it comes to 50mm F1.4, I would choose the FD version over EF every time anyway, be it with or without a focal reducer, so if you are still using Canon EF lenses on Sony E-mount cameras, maybe it’s worth seeing how much you could save by switching to something like Canon FD + Lens T… Continue Reading
…f/2.8 750 1250 Find on eBay Tessar 45mm f/2.8 150 450 Find on eBay Planar 50mm f/1.4 250 750 Find on eBay Planar 50mm f/1.7 100 350 Find on eBay Planar 55mm f/1.2 3000 6000 Find on eBay Makro-Planar 60mm C f/2.8 300 600 Find on eBay Makro-Planar 60mm f/2.8 300 600 Find on eBay Planar 85mm f/1.2 1500 3500 Find on eBay Planar 85mm f/1.4 350 750 Find on eBay Sonnar 85mm f/2.8 250 500 Find on eBay Planar 100mm f/2 400 900 Find on eBay Makro-Planar 10… Continue Reading
…tex/Century, it wasn’t really designed for such coverage. Optex + Canon FD 50mm F1.4 + Lens Turbo II I think its comfort zone is around 50mm on Super35 sensor because then soft edges are cut off making the overall image look better. Saying that, the center sharpness is not the best out there either. The taking lens generally needs to be stopped down by at least 1-2 stops to achieve good sharpness, but it all depends on the focal length, speed and… Continue Reading
…the taking lens down. Sensor Coverage/Taking Lenses: You can go as wide as 50mm FF/ 35mm S35 on 16:9 sensors, which produces around 35mm (FF equivalent) horizontal field of view. Not as wide as I’d like to get for some shots, but pretty workable and as good as any other anamorphic solutions I’ve tried so far. Image Quality/Sharpness: To me this is probably where this lens stands out the most. While with other anamorphic solutions I’ve had to step… Continue Reading
…is the video I shot on BMPCC with Proskar-16 inside the FM lens, Canon FD 50mm F1.4 + Roxsen Focal Reducer as a taking lens combo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoC0CtRqAFg Image Quality: The idea of FM is that it provides the single focusing ability any anamorphic lens inside it without affecting sharpness or character in any way and while it’s possible to create a combination that pretty much does just that, it’s not as straightforward as it… Continue Reading
…ebay revealed that this lens comes in various other mounts including M42, Olympus OM, Minolta MD, Pentax PK, so it’s not limited to just one particular camera and even if you’re not interested in BMPCC you might still be interested in this lens. As some of you know I recently I bought the BMPCC which made me see a lot of my lenses in very different way. Suddenly I wide angle 28mm prime like Sirius becomes more like an 80mm prime at which point MA… Continue Reading
