Old Cities- Old Glass

Hi Folks,

While I do occasionally, I'm not "way into" shooting with legacy glass. That said it occurs to me that the older cities are filled with legacy lenses. If your fortunate (or unfortunate) enough to live in an older city, visit some of the old camera shops and have a look around.

This is from a camera store in Providence, RI. I was poking around and thought I'd shoot the shelf of what they call "Minolta" lenses... Rokkor.

The prices range from $12. to around $55. Easier than poking around on eBay.

Here's a a sample from Hunts photo.

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/58555870@N04/5414087613/" title="Legacy Glass by Alan Roseman, on Flickr"> "640" height="431" alt="Legacy Glass" /></a>

 

There's a good assortment. If you want something special I'll look next time I'm downtown, which is about twice per week.

Also, I discovered when I gave away the f2 rokkor, it cost only $9.50 for me to send it to the Czech republic via USPS.

 

Take a look at a website called therokkorfiles

They have a pretty good selection of different manufacturers.

 

Hi deidre, as I mentioned, the older cities will more than likely be the best source of old glass.

Providence isn't a big city when compared to Boston, NYC etc. But there are at least 3 old timey long lived camera stores.

 

Ps. I did notice a 50 mm f1.4 in perfect condition for $60.

 

Hi Penfan,

Wow, you think there'd be some old camera stores in Hoboken, or Trenton. No?

There'd almost surely be one near a college campus that offers art, photography etc.

Have you gone poking around?

 

Here's a link to a thread on our board.

https://www.mu-43.com/f81/minolta-50mm-f-1-4-md-rokkor-image-thread-3576/

Somewhere, in one of the threads I saw a comparison of a Rokkor-Nikkor-and Canon (I think that was the grouping). They seemed pretty surprised at how the Rokkor tested.

I'm not the least bit surprised as i dragged a mile of Ektacolor, Ektachrome & Tri-X Pan across the rear element of more than one of them..

I always enjoyed the results from my old SRT series Minoltas- 101-102.

 

You know they get peanuts for this stuff.

I've messed around with the older lenses a little, but I think I'm going to be sticking with the natives primarily...

Saving for college is very very scary.... been there done that.

 

Hi Guys,

I hear you.. All of you. It's fun to find it, then you leave wondering, "did I really need that?"

It does make it easy for almost anyone owning a mu-43 body to sample the fun though.

 

Yes, it's fun. Keep your wallet in your pocket...