Howdy, I started this hobby with a couple of Takumars to "spice up" the kit lens...
Now the collection includes ones that apparently were not even sold to the public (100mm/3.5 m42).
Then, all kinds of m42 appeared (Carl Zeiss Jenas, the Russian mafia, the "other" German mafia and their friends).
A healthy Pentax-M collection followed.
Then, I discovered Pentax-K and Pentax-A.
Then, I got lazy - Pentax-F and Pentax-FA/FAJ was king. Somehow Adaptall-2/PKA made it in.
One day I got a couple of DA Ltds. They got me somewhat hooked ...
Now I am at the FA Ltd stage ;-)
I don't know what's next - something's gotta go, I am running out of room (~150 lenses, 2 enlargers/darkroom, 5 tripods, no less than 10 flashes, around 20 working bodies). Wife is slowly beginning to notice (and understand)
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My name is Mike and I am an addict.
And proud of it.
Q: What would you "thin out" of first:
- m42/Taks (don't use much, street value ~$2k+ - some gems like flek 35, sonnar 135, smc 50/1.4, 100/4, 135/2.5 and more)
- -M (don't use much with DSLRs, use -K with SLRs, street value $0.5k+)
- -K (use sparsly, some real gems like 200/2.5 or 85/1.8. Most likely to keep those, ~$1k+)
- Canon stuff (2x F1n, some nice lenses - 35/2, 100/2.8, 50/1.2). Use a contax/cz 50/1.7 for film now.
(need $ to support the habbit)
Before someone calls me crazy, I do not pay "retail" - good knowledge of android/unix/python/perl/http pays off sometimes.
Help.