The lens thread
 

Ok ... so far I've bought;

28mm 2.8 Canon FD for £20

and

50mm 1.8 Canon FD MK1 for £12

I'm gonna look for some longer lenses and possibly a zoom lens. I'm also bidding on a 50mm 1.4 at the moment.

What lenses have you lot bought? and how much did you pay? Are there any particular lenses really worth having?

i bought the same lenses... and i hope we're not bidding against each other for the 1.4

Nice Daniel,
Will you be bringing these lenses with you when we meet at the end of the month?

Yeah Wayne thats fine. By the 31st I want to have all my FD's bought and ready with focal ranges going from 28mm-300mm.

The 1.4 went for £47 + 6.50 P&P. A little more than I'm planning to pay. I've seen one go for £25 in the past so I'm gonna sit tight.

Yeah patience leads to a bargin on ebay.

I have an FD F1.8, works pretty well but my Nikon F1.4 is simply alot brighter.

The 55mm 1.2 is a godsend...I shot with it yesterday in a dimly lit high school hallway and it was fantastic. But of course you're lucky to see it under $200...but keep your eyes peeled. I nailed one for $70 a while back.

There was a search program designed for ebay that you could run on your desktop. It would search hourly for auctions with the keywords you specified and alert you when one showed up under a certain price. I can't remember for the life of me what it was called though.

I have a spare 50MM
 

Dan i have a spare FD 50mm1.4 for sale.. £40 inc next day delivery

let me know if ya interested (or anyone else)

I just picked up on the "lens thread" pun/double meaning...anyone else get that? I...ok well I thought it was funny.

Does anyone know of any FD's which wont allow you to trip the aperture?

Just bought -

50mm 1.4 + 70-210 f3.5 Vivitar FD's for £37

They all will allow you to control aperture.

Hey Ben, I just watched the ace romano trailer.

Now, that was funny.


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