katsrevenge
No longer a newbie, moving up!
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Especially like #4.
Thanks!
Lovely.
I find it irksome that as soon as I find out about these 'cheap' fun lenses...the prices skyrocket. Ah well.
Iknow what you mean. As soon as I bought this one I took a class on Creatuve Live that was all about Lensbaby and was kicking myself over not waiting!
After I saw your post I searched "Trioplan" and some of its relatives. (That effect is very neat!! ) Some used to be cheap, and by that I mean 10-25 bucks!! That seems to be the case a lot.. I mean..the helios lenses...or the more interesting (and adaptable) lenses for other things... Ah well, always late to the party, that's me! LOL
I have a lot of the lensbaby stuff...but I was very patient on the fleabay. I don't know what system you use (and I hope it's ok to mention!) but I do have a composer and double glass optic for sale on this forum. I got it as part of a lot, have no use for it. There is also a single glass optic and case, but didn't have it on hand when I took those photos so it's unlisted till my ad falls off the first page, LOL.
I use Fuji X. Advised on another forum that I should buy the lens baby with Canon or Nikon mount, for me it would be Nikon, and then use an adapter and a lens turbo? To create a bigger field of view I guess and better use the effects of the lens? Still researching all that. Also resell value might be better for Nikon? I’ll take a look at your post,thanks for the heads up but after my last gas attack I probably have to wait a while lol.
The short version of my trip down the eBay rabbit hole... a few of the people I follow on Flickr had some beautiful photos made with the real Trioplan - which is way out of my price range. I went on eBay to search and ended up on a bunch of sites reading about adapted lenses and DIY conversions and then started looking at sample photos of the Russian lenses. In the end I bought a Helios 44-4 and a Meyer Gorlitz Domiplan 50 mm from Ukraine. A little risky but they were both pretty cheap so I figured I’d chance it. Those will need adapters and may or may not work and the 3 week delivery window was too much time for me to wait patiently. The next day I was checking on eBay again (I was obsessed lol), and suddenly there was that custom made Fuji mount with the Pentacon 2.8 AV that I had read was the “poor man’s Trioplan” lens. Because it was custom-made with a Fuji mount already, I wouldn’t have to do any of the adapter and DIY stuff that I had read about. It was a total impulse buy knowing I’d regret it if I passed it up. I’m happy with it so far.
I think the one I have up is Sony, it's not a system I use, I use Nikon. I just got it as it was priced right for the rest of the lot (that I wanted.) Even if it sits forever on a shelf I still saved money buying like that.
I'm not sure about the lens turbo, interesting idea. I figured that one day I'd just go full frame. But not today. Have you used one before? Are they worth it?
I haven't tried to adapt anything to a Nikon, I've read they are finicky about infinity focus. Instead I have a wee m4/3rds that I stick weird stuff on, LOL. My helios came with an adapter, thank god. I like that thing enough that I kind of want to buy an infinity fixed version helios for Nikon. Who knew all-manual lenses would be that much fun??!
Yeah, your post has made me add Yet Another Lens to the list of crap I will buy One Day. Even if I have to deal with Russians.