I have as low a budget as you can imagine. At the moment I'm looking at some old Nikon lenses, I've also heard from some friends that Pentax K lenses are a bargain but are they any good? I'm not aware of Pentax's reputation. Are there any others worth really looking into? Obviously there are I just want to know which. I want a 50mm next but with a decent focus ring and manual aperture, which I'm assuming most vintage lenses have, it's just the worry of not being able to get a follow focus on there.
Best vintage lens to get for my 550d?
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You ought to check out the Vintage Lens Thread sticky. Lots of discussion in there, and a few image samples.
Pentax vintage lenses are fine. Back in the day, all the camera manufacturers produced decent lenses - some were fabulous, but none of the standard lenses were bad. I like Canon because I have a cupboard full of Canon FD lenses from my younger days. If I were buying r=fresh, I'd be happy with Nikon, Pentax, Minolta, Olympus
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Olympus OM Zuiko are very sharp and one of the best bargains on ebay. I have a large collection of them, they're great lenses.
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Olympus OM mount adapts very easily to EOS. Look for the adapter from Fotodiox on ebay.