help choose the best low bugdet lenses

[cagu]

i need to get a 35mm and 50mm lens to use on the canon 7D, please give me your sugestions...

 

[Mark Von Lanken]

Low budget is a relative term. Are you looking for a lens under $200...$100...$50?

I really like the Nikon 35 2.0 and the Nikon 50 1.4 in the manual focus versions. You can find nice Nikon 50 1.4s in the $75-150 range. Nikon 35 2.0 are probably more.

Another consideration for the 35 2.0 is a Russian made Mir 24. It's a 35 2.0 and I really like it. You can find them in the $100-200 range. I prefer the Nikon mount instead of the M42 mount with the Mir 24.

 

[David G. Smith]

Yeah, I have a Nikon 35mm f2.8, pre-AI manual lens and a Nikon 50mm f1.4 pre-AI manual lens, both were bought off of eBay for around $100.00. I really like the lenses.

 

[life4eva]

What exactly is Non Ai? I read something that it has to deal with precise aperture readings for lenses that have it, so do lens that do not have it suffer?

 

[David G. Smith]

What exactly is Non Ai? I read something that it has to deal with precise aperture readings for lenses that have it, so do lens that do not have it suffer?

No, in 1977 Nikon introduced an Automatic exposure Indexing to their cameras and lenses and used a mechanical flange on the lens that the camera detected to use that feature. They were smart in that the update did not change the mount, so older lenses could be used with newer cameras. Now, the pre-AI lenses are older lenses, and some folks claim that the post AI lenses have better lens coatings, which help to reduce flair and ghosing. From using the pre-AI lenses I have not found any issue with flair and ghosting at all (that would not effect a modern lens also). I really like the lenses. They are not bleeding edge sharp, but that is really what I want. They also seem to be lower contrast then a lot of modern lenses, which I really like. They are beautifully made, with all steel construction. Of course, buying them now means buying used, so you know, buyer beware. However, the vintage Nikons are good lenses at good prices.

 

[cagu]

HEY! I want to achieve a sharpeness image and good colors...the budget between 1-500k

 

[jambredz]

500k?? as in thousand? (I doubt it). Anyway get the old nikons or contax zeiss

 

[Mark Von Lanken]

HEY! I want to achieve a sharpeness image and good colors...the budget between 1-500k

In that case look for a used Zeiss Planar T 50mm 1.4. You can usually find them used on Ebay for around $300. Sweet lens...sharp and great colors.

 

[ROCKMORE]

pre-AI manual lens

I've been looking at some Nikkor 20mm and 18mm lenses. there is a large tab on the back of the lens. Is that an issue on the 500D?

 

[David G. Smith]

I've been looking at some Nikkor 20mm and 18mm lenses. there is a large tab on the back of the lens. Is that an issue on the 500D?

Without seeing the lens, I am assuming that that is and aperture ridge that some latter AI Nikons have and they fall outside the mechanical mounts edges and should not be an issue when using a F-mount to EOS mount adaptor.

 

[mrchirster]

isn't there a faster 35mm lens that is affordable? i thought about the sigma 30mm 1.4 but i want to conver tto full frame when the mark 3 comes out...

david : i just read the two comments in your signature.. quite funny how contradictory they are ! do you agree more with coppola or wells?

 

[David G. Smith]

isn't there a faster 35mm lens that is affordable? i thought about the sigma 30mm 1.4 but i want to conver tto full frame when the mark 3 comes out...

david : i just read the two comments in your signature.. quite funny how contradictory they are ! do you agree more with coppola or wells?

I think that the Wells quote and the Coopola quote are actually complimentary. Since Wells thinks that limitations are necessary for the creation of art and Coopola is hoping for the day when the little fat girl creates art with great limitations, they go hand in hand.

 

[mrchirster]

I thought Wells is talking about how the medium to transport art (let it be film in this case) with all its boundaries of reflecting the world as a 2 dimensional space gives the artist the freedom of creativity only within these boundaries.
I guess it depends on how he defines art here. If he talks about the art of acting in front of a camera or the creative use of the camera (like the intro scene of Citizen Kane) he worked creatively within the boundaries of production costs. With the absence of these limitations (having unlimited rolls of films and such) it would have been the enemy of the art of making a movie...
The fat girl from Ohio would of course also work in these boundaries to produce art but I think art is defined differently by Coppola over here. He talks more out of a technical perspective. That the medium film should be as easily accessible as the writer can write down stuff in his notebook...