Excellent and super cheap vintage zoom!

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Excellent and super cheap vintage zoom!

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Vintage Optiks

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@CorvusNumber6 3 жыл бұрын

This is probably the lens I use most - can't believe you got it for free! Great video!

@VintageOptiks 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! That's so cool you have this awesome zoom! I don't really hear very often from people who appreciate vintage zooms, but I personally love the ones I've tried. And this one is great and it costs very little.

@CorvusNumber6 3 жыл бұрын

@@VintageOptiks Exactly! It's my go-to lens for semi-wide and portrait stuff! Thanks again for the video - I'd love to see more Hexanon videos! Cheers, Dave.

@VintageOptiks 3 жыл бұрын

@@CorvusNumber6 You are welcome. More Hexanon lens reviews are coming in the future! They are without a doubt some of my all time favorite lenses!

@CorvusNumber6 3 жыл бұрын

Vintage Optiks Yay! Excellent! 📷👍🏻😎

@alangamble3236 4 жыл бұрын

I found an old Canon AE-1 camera in an antiques/junk shop a year ago looking in a very sad state but it's a camera that I had always had a yearning for so I bought it at a knockdown price of £32.00. It came with a tatty ever-ready original case but the Jewel was the 1.8f 50mm Canon FD lens which was immaculate. I bought an inexpensive micro four thirds adapter and use it for flower photography. I have had some very good results and would recommend this lens. I'm not sure of its age probably manufactured in the seventies.

@VintageOptiks 4 жыл бұрын

What a great find! I love FD lenses. I'm not sure if you saw my video of the Canon FD 50mm F3.5 macro. An absolute gem of a lens. I would love to try the 50mm F1.8. You can usually tel when FD lenses were manufactured by the combination of letters and numbers on the back plate. Mine was made in September of 1976.

@duncanrae7504 2 жыл бұрын

Recently bought a Kiron 28mm- 210mm f4- 5.6 . wasn't expecting much with it having such a range , But really liking it's images so far . It is built like a tank ,so needs a reasonably large camera body to handle it .

@VintageOptiks 2 жыл бұрын

Nice! It's amazing how good some of these vintage zooms can be!

@boredgrass Жыл бұрын

Vivitar 70 - 200mm 4.5 across range, on my first SLR (Minolta XD 7) Without having heard of spot metering, it gave me the idea to check darkest and brightest areas with 200mm. One can say I used it as a kind of "spotmeter". From that I moved to ask myself for which part of a motive I want to have optimal exposure? After that, only motives with high dynamic range required the decision of whether I wanted to retain details in the darks or in the highlights. Despite the much higher dynamic ranges of modern sensors and the metering capabilities of modern cameras, I prefer spot metering 😉

@VintageOptiks Жыл бұрын

Sounds like a great approach! Thanks for sharing. I like spot metering as well. I have the Minolta spotmeter F which works great with my film SLR’s.

@pedrova8058 3 жыл бұрын

it´s similar -if not the same optical design- to some other zoom lenses (Vivitar 70-150 3,8; Kiron 70-150 3,8 (virtually same lens), Nikon 75-150 serie E Ais) I have the vivitar version (two rings) , wich can focus to 1:4 "macro"; it´s a good zoom for lightweight hiking, shot some close ups, landscapes, even some portraits (at 150mm is soft wide open, but the bokéh looks great, even mild swirly under certain circumstances)

@Tootoorou 3 жыл бұрын

the 100-300mm Soligor with makro (Tokina made) lens on tripod with some time and adjustments, pics came out realy sharp. thanks for your nice work & vids :)

@VintageOptiks 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Glad to hear you are enjoying your Soligor zoom lens! It's amazing what these cheap vintage zooms can do! Have fun!

@coleandrews25 3 жыл бұрын

Where do you find all this knowledge and specs? Is there a catalog of old lenses and maybe a glossary? Thank you for what you are doing.

@VintageOptiks 3 жыл бұрын

I find it through lots of constant research. I look through old catalogs, manuals, books and magazines etc, etc. I’m a bit obsessed with vintage lenses 😬 Glad to hear that you are enjoying the information. Cheers!

@nikolinkageorgieva2022 4 жыл бұрын

Amazing!!!🤗

@VintageOptiks 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@wombatandoli3222 3 жыл бұрын

Great video Bruv! Love the pictures. I often use the Canon FD 70-210mm f/4 or the Canon FD 75-200mm f/4.5. Just for fun. How do you think they compare?

@VintageOptiks 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!! I appreciate it. I personally enjoy vintage zooms quite a lot. A lot of people don't take them seriously, but some of them can perform really well! All the ones I've reviewed here on the channel so far have been great! I need to test the Canon FD zooms you mentioned, but I'll get to them sometime in the future. So many lenses, so little time :)

@wombatandoli3222 3 жыл бұрын

@@VintageOptiks That's great. I know what you mean. Are you in London? I don't mine lending you any of mine. BTW: I finally just won an ebay auction for the Flektogon! Had to pay $183 though!!!

@VintageOptiks 3 жыл бұрын

That’s fantastic! Congrats on getting the Flektogon!! I’m excited for you to try it out. Thank you for your kind offer to let me barrow the zooms, but I live quite far from London. I’m in the United States. Cheers!!

@wombatandoli3222 3 жыл бұрын

@@VintageOptiks Thank you :)

@newuolderf 3 жыл бұрын

I have bought a Minolta 28 mm f3.5 for 45 euro and I love it. My camera is Sony a6500. So it is 42 mm, but who cares if what it prodyces is nice.

@VintageOptiks 3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoy your Minolta lens. I totally agree with you - as long as you like what the lens does, it doesn’t matter if it’s on cropped sensor or not. Have fun!