jesito
Well-Known Member
¡Hola Luis!.
Thanks for your long and illustrated answer, also Merry Christmas to everybody!.
I somewhat agree with you. To me, my best lens is the german Carl Zeiss Planar 50mm 1.7, that I own in Contax/Yashica mount. Unfortunately not being mountable on the SD9. I've seen some kind of conversions of this lens to M42 screw, that would allow mounting it on the SD9, but I don't dare to do the conversion. I'm afraid of damaging the lens. Lenses are precision tools that should be handled with lots of knowledge and the precise tools.
I also own a Canon EOS 350D (my first digital SLR) and a Pentax *istDS. Even not being able to cope with the sharpness and colours of the SD9, they do an acceptable work for an amateur photographer like myself. I'm convinced that having better photographic outfit won't turn me into a better photographer.
My current equipment overpasses a lot my limited capabilities. Even knowing it, I love to experiment. That's why I started getting old lenses and cameras. And I feel the older lenses are not so bad. Maybe the japanese manufacturers have a trend to pastel colouring, but there are fine japanese lenses that I like a lot. Tamron SP series (the 90mm SP is one of them), but there are many others, like the 70-210 long zoom, etc. Also many of the Democratic Republic lenses were made based on the german models (the 58mm Helios 44-2, the Industar, etc.), those clones being very cheap nowadays and fine lenses to me, taking into account the cost/performance ratio.
I must admit that the Leicas are out of this world, but they are also out of this world in price. As an amateur, I've set a limit on the price I'd pay for a lens, so I'm not ready to pay $3000 for a Summicron 90 leica lens, just to improve my limited pictures. Not my way. I'll try to learn what I can with my current set, and try to squeeze the maximum from them. Even the humble Sigma 18-50 can take decent pictures, so I'll be using it as far as I cannot surpass its abilities. (My Summicron 90 equivalent is my Jupiter-9
).
Having said so, I'm sure that many of you with excellent photographic abilities will take profit of such wonderful lenses. And I admire the high tech work you are doing to improve these consumer cameras to take them to a professional level, so I must congratulate you for it.
Kind regards,
Jes.
Thanks for your long and illustrated answer, also Merry Christmas to everybody!.
I somewhat agree with you. To me, my best lens is the german Carl Zeiss Planar 50mm 1.7, that I own in Contax/Yashica mount. Unfortunately not being mountable on the SD9. I've seen some kind of conversions of this lens to M42 screw, that would allow mounting it on the SD9, but I don't dare to do the conversion. I'm afraid of damaging the lens. Lenses are precision tools that should be handled with lots of knowledge and the precise tools.
I also own a Canon EOS 350D (my first digital SLR) and a Pentax *istDS. Even not being able to cope with the sharpness and colours of the SD9, they do an acceptable work for an amateur photographer like myself. I'm convinced that having better photographic outfit won't turn me into a better photographer.
My current equipment overpasses a lot my limited capabilities. Even knowing it, I love to experiment. That's why I started getting old lenses and cameras. And I feel the older lenses are not so bad. Maybe the japanese manufacturers have a trend to pastel colouring, but there are fine japanese lenses that I like a lot. Tamron SP series (the 90mm SP is one of them), but there are many others, like the 70-210 long zoom, etc. Also many of the Democratic Republic lenses were made based on the german models (the 58mm Helios 44-2, the Industar, etc.), those clones being very cheap nowadays and fine lenses to me, taking into account the cost/performance ratio.
I must admit that the Leicas are out of this world, but they are also out of this world in price. As an amateur, I've set a limit on the price I'd pay for a lens, so I'm not ready to pay $3000 for a Summicron 90 leica lens, just to improve my limited pictures. Not my way. I'll try to learn what I can with my current set, and try to squeeze the maximum from them. Even the humble Sigma 18-50 can take decent pictures, so I'll be using it as far as I cannot surpass its abilities. (My Summicron 90 equivalent is my Jupiter-9
).Having said so, I'm sure that many of you with excellent photographic abilities will take profit of such wonderful lenses. And I admire the high tech work you are doing to improve these consumer cameras to take them to a professional level, so I must congratulate you for it.
Kind regards,
Jes.
