Originally posted by benhai Wooh! you must be something. I can't imaging how you manage them.
Manage?!?!? Sometimes it seems like they manage ME. But I can break this down a bit. About 2/3 of my lenses (and 3/4 of my Fifty's) are PK-able camera lenses; the rest are enlarger or projector or medium format lenses that need extension (tubes or bellows) to use, or auxiliary lenses, or collectible-only.
And too much of my accumulation spends too much time unused, which is why I started my lens-of-the-day strategy. That doesn't work in the boring place I mostly reside, but is a whiz-bang when traveling. Use only (or mostly, depending on need) one lens for a day or three, see how it performs, how it 'tastes' different than others.
Quote: I play around with m42 lenses just because I don't want to spend money on modern FA primes. Up to now I may have to get some FA primes. We sometimes act like collectors rather then photographer.
Notice that I referred to my accumulation, not a collection. There's no way I can ever collect the entire set of ANYTHING photographic. So I trend toward M42's just for the bang-per-buck. And if I can get great lenses cheap in other mounts that I can adapt, cowabunga! So I chop Yashica C/Y's and Nikon AI's and Olympus OM's and various Exakta-mounts. (Exakta: I chop the adapter, not the lens.) With careful shopping and chopping, I can accumulate great glass for a pittance. And Yashica's are some of the best. I just wish I could get more, cheap.