What was your latest SLR Lens purchase?

[zenrhino]

SMC 50mm f1.4 m42 for my Spotmatic II.

 

[film_guy]

You'll love the Canon 50mm 1.8. Although its build is a bit low and plasticky, it's sharper and focuses faster than most of Canon's more expensive zooms. I love my "nifty fifty"!

A Canon EF 50 f/1.8 for my little Rebel T2, which I won on eBay for about $150 (the camera, not the lens). Usually I prefer my Nikon FM2n when using 35mm, but the Canon Rebel deal was too good to pass up. I'm not a fan of zooms (all my Nikon lenses and Hasselblad lenses, of course, are fast primes), but the Canon came with the "kit" 28-90, which is OK as zooms go. But being a tradionalist, I just HAD to have a fast standard lens for the little Rebel. The 50mm should be arriving today, and it will give me two extra stops of range with the little built in flash--which I will rarely use, but when I need it, I need it.

 

[mawz]

Just picked up a purple Nikon F5 strap with a Nikormat FTn on it.

 

[NikoSperi]

Always more specific

These polls seem to always get more and more specific... "What fixed focal length, 120mm image circle, non-Tessar design lens"...

Anyway, last SLR lens purchase would have to be a 40mm Distagon for Hasselblad. Ah ha! See, no mention of 35mm in THIS poll...

Last 35mm lens purchase was a 50mm Noctilux (not SLR, sorry) which turned out to be a lemon - so I can tell you where NOT to buy used Leica gear in Milan.

 

[Don Craig]

Chinar 28mm f2.8 for a Nikon FM2. Lens was from eBay, camera from a yardsale table. Running a roll through them now.

 

[Sirius Glass]

Hasselblad C f/5.6 500mm lens just after I purchases the Hasselblad CF f/4 100mm lens.

 

[Trangia]

OM Zuiko 50mm f2 Macro.
Was an amazing flea market score at a time I was really wanting a macro for my Olympus.

 

[film_man]

Last thing I bought is a Nikon 50/1.2 AIS. Brand new in a box from ebay for £380. Simply an amazing lens.

 

[Malcolm Stewart]

Last Wednesday I bought a Minolta Rokkor TC 135mm F/4 for £39, from Skears in Northampton - a real bricks and mortar camera and photo shop!
The lens is a triplet, and matches my 100mm F/4 Rokkor TC owned by me since the 1970s. It's in good condition, very clean, but with a little stiffness in the aperture control compared to the 100mm version which I think I bought new for my SRT101. I'm now getting familiar with my Minolta X-700 again, and I'll see how it does compared with more modern gear. Prior to this I bought a Canon FDn 300mm F/5.6, for trial on my A-1 which replaces my failed T90. (Sadly, my T90 failed in the classic shutter jam fashion several times, and I gave it to a local repair shop as I simply wasn't using it often enough.)
The two Minolta lenses are long focus construction whereas the Canon 300mm FDn is a telephoto, albeit with internal focusing. I doubt if I'll spot any significant imaging difference when I check them out.

 

[Leigh B]

Most recent (filled out my Nikon 35mm kit in the last month):
Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8 AF-S G Nikkor
Nikon 24-70mm f/2.8 AF-S G Nikkor
Nikon 17-35mm f/2.8 AF-S D Nikkor
Nikon 70-180mm f/4.5-5.6 AF-S Micro Nikkor
Nikon 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 VR AF-S G Nikkor
Nikon 80-200mm f/2.8 D ED Nikkor

- Leigh

 

[ac12]

Nikkor 500 f/8 mirror, to give me the extra reach beyond my 70-210 zoom.

 

[Jeff Bradford]

SMC Pentax 1:3.5 35mm.

 

[George Mann]

A Nikon AF Nikkor 35-70mm F3.3-4.5n, with hood for my F90x.

 

[benjiboy]

A Canon FD 28-85 f 4 zoom lens about five years ago.

 

[flavio81]

The famed Super-Multi-Coated Takumar 135mm f2.5, in its preferred 2nd optical version. M42 mount.

 

[benjiboy]

Most recent purchases in the last 12 months.
Canon FDn
50mm f1.2 standard lens (I part exchanged my 50mm f1.4 FDn)
, FDn 20-35 f3.5 L zoom, ( part exchanged my Canon T90 with the 50mm f1.8 FDn lens) this has always been an expensive lens
FDn 35- 105 zoom
FDn 135mm f2 bought a few days ago
PS - I just looked at the spreadsheet I keep my equipment inventory on and I have seventeen lenses I stopped buying cameras about a year ago I think it's about time I stopped buying lenses as well.





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[donkee]

My latest is an Olympus OM-System S Zuiko 35-70mm f/4 zoom and an Olympus OM-system E zuiko AUTO-T 100mm f/2.8.

 

[GRHazelton]

A Tamron Adaptal 300mm f2.8 with Pentax K mount and the Tamron 1.4 "extender." It uses small filters in a carrier within the lens, but the 112mm filter to protect the objective is expensive. This is a LARGE lens, weighs perhaps 5 pounds! Thankfully it came with its own case, and the lens has fittings for a shoulder strap. I'd imagine that carrying the lens/camera as a unit by the camera strap could damage the camera. While the lens came originally with a palm rest for hand-held shooting, my example lacks that. Ah,well.....

 

[Ronald Moravec]

Another boring 50 1.4 AiS, but it is sharper than the other two I own. Word was pros would go to a large store and test all in stock and pick the best so there was some variation. About the same time I purchased a 105 2.8 micro to go with my 55 3.5. Both are gems.

 

[Paul Howell]

Konica Minolta A mount 100 to 300 APO.

 

[drkhalsa]

I bought a Voigtlander 40mm f2 sl ii s for Nikon F mount from B&H. Should arrive June 6th. 2 weeks back I bought a Bargain grade Nikon 85mm f1.4 af-d with caps from KEH.

 

[narsuitus]

Mamiya 250mm f/4.5 for my RB67 SLR


Built like a ... by Narsuitus, on Flickr

 

[benjiboy]

A Tamron Adaptal 300mm f2.8 with Pentax K mount and the Tamron 1.4 "extender." It uses small filters in a carrier within the lens, but the 112mm filter to protect the objective is expensive. This is a LARGE lens, weighs perhaps 5 pounds! Thankfully it came with its own case, and the lens has fittings for a shoulder strap. I'd imagine that carrying the lens/camera as a unit by the camera strap could damage the camera. While the lens came originally with a palm rest for hand-held shooting, my example lacks that. Ah,well.....

That's a very good lens Mr Hazelton, but speaking personally I'm getting so old I don't think I could carry it, I would need a porter

 

[LiamG]

A Tamron Adaptal 300mm f2.8 with Pentax K mount and the Tamron 1.4 "extender." It uses small filters in a carrier within the lens, but the 112mm filter to protect the objective is expensive. This is a LARGE lens, weighs perhaps 5 pounds! Thankfully it came with its own case, and the lens has fittings for a shoulder strap. I'd imagine that carrying the lens/camera as a unit by the camera strap could damage the camera. While the lens came originally with a palm rest for hand-held shooting, my example lacks that. Ah,well.....

I used 300/2.8s extensively for years, I would either carry them with a strap attached to the lens itself (not sure if the Tamron has mounts, though- the Nikons all do), or on my shoulder, with a monopod attached, where it can kind of balance. For manual focus 300s especially, I think a monopod, at least, is essential- its pretty difficult to support the lens and focus well. Enjoy the lens, I've had a lot of fun with this focal length!

 

[jerrybro]

60mm Micro Nikor for the autofocus side of tthe family.