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What lenses are you using? Anything Legacy?

Started Jun 5, 2016 | Discussions thread
User1681358933 Junior Member • Posts: 41
Re: What lenses are you using? Anything Legacy?
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i am using a few legacy lenses on my NX1... i especially like a Helios 44M6 58 mm F2... and a Revuenon 50 mm F1.2 ... for one they are really fast ..i mean F2 ! or F1.2 ! and they have wonderfull bokeh...both are great portrait lenses and can be used for other things too, especially for shooting in the dark, cultural events, Bands playing, Taverns and such.....

then i use a cheap Sigma 70-300.---f4-5,6..... its a really light plastic lens, but it sells for slightly over 100 € and is actually quite ok, better then the Samsung 18-200 definitively IQ wise..about on par with the Samsung 50-200.... well...and i get much more reach...its equivalent in FF is a 105-450 mm lens...
recently i also got a 70-200 Tokina AT-X F2,8 lens...its a constant F2.8 lens and i got it for around 130 €... its quite sharp too....only shortcoming is that its quite large and heavy...but thats inevitably so...

I played around with a few other legacy lenses, but they couldnt offer me so much of an advantage that it compensated the lack of AF ...so i either sold them or shelf them for the rare occasion..

all these lenses have Pentax K mounts or M42...i use a Novoflex Pentax to NX Adapter which is superbly built and without any play or wiggling.. its sturdy and can hold heavy lenses quite good.

And when the NX1 will become obsolete one day i can probably still use these lenses on the  likes of a Sony A7....
If i did not yet have a macro i would also buy a legacy macro lens... a friend bought a used Nikon one... great glass.. he paid 40 € for it....
Actually i think its a good idea if you want to save money and not invest too much into a basically dead system to get the best standard zoom with AF you can afford and cover all the other aspects with legacy lenses or cheap but sharp manual lenses like the Rokinon, Samyang... buy them in Nikon version and use them with an adapter..so they will have resell value or you can use them on a D500 later...

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Samsung NX1 Samsung NX 50-200mm F4-5.6 OIS Samsung NX 60mm F2.8 Macro ED OIS SSA Samsung NX 18-200mm F3.5-6.3 ED OIS Samsung NX 12-24mm F4-5.6 ED +3 more
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