Originally posted by Scorpio71GR After shooting Pentax for over 30 years I would be afraid to count. I have lenses in places that I forgot exist.
Hahaha, same situation here
Now LBA has dried up to a trickle, cause I already have many of the lenses I desired... and those I still crave for are way too expensive for my current finances (and in practice some would be a duplicate of a cheaper lens I already own).
So I just patiently wait for a second hand occasion involving some recent Korean/Chinese stuff that has caught my attention, but is still almost impossible to find on the used market.
Maybe sooner or later my restraint will be rewarded with a gently used Samyang 135mm or Laowa 105mm STM
In the meantime, I'm enjoying my latest purchases:
apart an old Leitz Milar for bellows use (which is in no way a travel lens... unless I brought all my super-macro paraphernalia), I have with me all the recent acquisitions in my travel bag.
I still have to try the Peleng 8mm on FF, though I already started testing a Soligor (Tokina made) 2/135mm, and a Leitz Elmarit M 2.8/135mm. The former had been in my radar for long, and the latter shares the adapter/helicoid with the Summicron 2/90mm (one of my preferred lenses).
Having many lenses, acquired over a long span of time, and spread in a few different places, is a sure source of surprises. Mostly good, some bad.
I lost sight of my Pentax-M 40mm pancake long ago. I thought it got lost or stolen, and about a month ago I found it, in place of the body cap of my old LX
Other times having stuff in the wrong place is not conducive to nice surprises. Of all the lenses I left in Thailand during 3 months of rainy season (which has been super rainy!), the most valuable one was attacked by fungal growth. It's my Sigma 120-400mm, that I had just got back from Sigma with updated firmware and modified bayonet, ready for the K-1
Interestingly, all the other objectives are perfectly fine. All of them were in a kind of lockable wooden safe, with a dehumidifier box in it, and an airtight plastic box containing the lenses. The only difference: the Sigma zoom was "protected" by its original black case.
Let's learn from errors. In hot, humid climates, lens cases might be good for protection during transport, NOT for storage!
Fortunately it seems that the two spots of fungus are located between the two front glasses, but my idiotic choice will cost me some good money. I don't dare to clean by myself modern AF zooms!
I hope my stories about pleasures and misfortunes of a fan of old (and not so old) lenses were of some use... or at least entertaining
Cheers
Paolo