Some of you may remember the J.Colwell SPLOS.DB Pentax lens rating and pricing database from about 10 years ago, published by this Canadian photographer and collector. You may also remember Robert Monaghan's Megasite and the sub-forum Cult Classics. That set of pages may well be the source of the Vivitar Series 1 fetish among manual focus people here.
Unfortunately the Cult Classics pages went dark several years ago and have never come back up. But J. Colwell has done it again - in May, 2011 he posted a .pdf of the contents of the pages to Fred Miranda.com, linked
HERE You can download the .pdf (it's 64 pages) and perhaps it will refreshj your memory of stellar, Legendary Lenses you once owned that should be in this Thread
There are also links to what's left of the megasite!!
I own or have owned these in PK or P/KA mount: I have no idea how to rank them, nor will I limit myself to 10 lenses. I can't tell you what possessed me in any given month to sell one of these and try another other than that's what I do. I have and have owned lots more lenses, but these are the ones I beleive should be considered for Legend status.
Tamron SP 90/2.5 Macro BB
Tamron SP 70~210/3.5
Tamron 35~80/2.8~3.8
Vivitar Series 1 ver. 3 70~210/2.8~4.0
Vivitar Series 1 105/2.5 Macro (bought NOS in California) - never should have sold that one
K24/2.8 K28/3.5
K50/1.2
A50/1.4
FA50/2.8 Macro K135/2.5 K200/2.5
Last edited by monochrome; 02-16-2012 at 07:35 AM.