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05-02-2020, 03:28 PM - 1 Like   #106
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oh boy....

M42
Tamron Adaptall-2 01B 24mm f2.5
Soligor C/D 35mm f2 P
Super Takumar 35mm f2
CZJ MC Flektogon 35mm f2.4
Cosina Cosinon 55mm f1.4
Porst Color Reflex MC Auto 55mm f1.4
Auto Chinon MCM 55mm f1.5 Macro
Super Takumar 55mm f1.8
Fujinon 55mm f2.2
EBC Fujinon 55mm f3.5 Macro
Mamiya Macro Sekor 60mm f2.8
Tamron Adaptall-2 SP 52B 90mm f2.5
S-M-C Takumar 105mm f2.8

Vivitar C-F 75-205mm f3.8 zoom
MW 85-205mm f3.8 zoom


K-mount
DA 14mm f2.8 ED (IF)
Tokina RMC 17mm f3.5
Sigma 20mm f1.8 EX DG
SMC A 20mm f2.8
DA 21mm f3.2 AL Limited
Sigma 24mm f1.8 EX DG
Tamron Adaptall-2 01BB 24mm f2.5
SMC 24mm f2.8
Sigma Super-Wide II 24mm f2.8
Sigma 28mm f1.8 EX DG
SMC 35mm f2
HD DA 35mm f2.8 Limited Macro
Rikenon XR 35mm f2.8
SMC 35mm f3.5
Voigtlander Ultron 40mm f2 SL II
DA 40mm f2.8 Limited
SMC A 50mm f1.4
D FA 50mm f2.8 Macro
Porst Color Reflex MC Auto 55mm f1.2
Cosina 55mm f1.2
DA* 55mm f1.4 SDM
SMC 55mm f2
Vivitar (Komine) 55mm f2.8 Macro
Voigtlander Nokton 58mm f1.4 SL II
DA 70mm f2.4 Limited
Sigma 70mm f2.8 EX DG Macro
Rokinon 85mm f1.4 AS IF UMC
Tamron Adaptall-2 SP 72 B 90mm f2.8
D FA 100mm f2.8 Macro WR
Vivitar (Cosina) 100mm f3.5 Macro
SMC A 100mm f4 Macro
Irix 150mm f2.8 Macro
SMC A 200mm f4
FA* 300mm f4.5 ED IF

DA 10-17mm f3.5-4.5 ED (IF)
Sigma 10-20mm f4-5.6 EX DC
DA 18-135mm f3.5-5.6 ED AL (IF) DC WR
SMC A 35-70mm f4
Sigma 50-150mm f2.8 II APO HSM
DA L 55-300mm f4-5.8 ED
SMC A 70-210mm f4


and I stopped asking 'why' a long time ago....

a couple have left the farm for greener pastures, while two more have arrived:

Carl Zeiss Planar 85mm f1.4 ZK T*
Carl Zeiss Distagon 25mm f2.8 ZK T*

and on the way: Auto Topcor (Cosina) 58mm f1.4

05-03-2020, 02:26 AM - 3 Likes   #107
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Photography is not a source of income for me. I’m a financial engineer, I craft financial arrangements: bonds, pseudo-capital arrangements— a non-repetitive, mentally-taxing, but definitely boring job, even if I like it.

I need to do something beyond premiums and discount rates after work, and photography (or probably more like collecting lenses) becomes a hobby for me, it keeps my mind off from the 8 to 6 routine, and refreshes me. Even when I’m just staring at these beautiful pieces of glasses, or just mounting and shooting mostly uninteresting objects/subjects, funny, but they give me some peace, never mind if I have very limited time when I can actually use them extensively. But the fact that simply owning them can give ME some peace and happiness is a sound reason enough, IMO, to justify my “LBA”.

PS: [I also play, err, collect chess books and chess boards]

PS #2: I’m not really fond of superzooms. :P
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QuoteOriginally posted by Alex645 Quote
On the other hand, all of us with LBA feel we need help spreading the fever to anyone reasonable or apathetic to the cause. If our passion for lenses gives us pleasure or a joie de vivre, perhaps we should now and forever identify anyone without LBA as being a LIMP (less is more photographer)?
Story of my life - trying to live and travel with LIMP (and mostly failing) (truly a first-world problem)

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05-10-2020, 11:46 PM - 3 Likes   #109
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So uhm despite owning several nifty fifties as mentioned in my opening post, not to mention 16-50, 50-135, 70 ltd, during the lock down another member joined: DA* 55, so far its job is to photograph my walls and some random objects in the house. Why not, the other lenses are either too long, too heavy or too slow for that anyway :-)

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Back at the start of the year I played around with a tiny little compact camera for a while, a 12 megapixel Canon A1200 that you can buy for spare change, and I liked the results so much that after a couple of weeks I found myself looking at my DSLR gear very differently. In fact, I came very close to giving up on DSLR photography completely and started considering APS-C compact camera options with decent lenses.

Instead, what I've done is cut my DSLR gear down to the bone. I'd had to stop using my Takumars because of eyesight troubles anyway, and now I've given them to a charity to hopefully make some money from. I've also got rid of the various other lenses that I was only using once a year at best anyway. So I now own:

The cheap plastic mount 18-55mm WR on my Samsung GX-10 version of the K10D.
The basic non-WR plastic mount 18-55mm on my K-S1.
Until a few days ago I also had an M200mm/4.0, but that's now going too. Oh, and I've also still got my Kodak Anastigmat 50mm/3.5 but I'm keeping that.

At some point later this year I'll probably move to either the 16-85mm or the 20-40mm on the GX-10, but I don't see myself ever going back to lugging around a bag full of different lenses again. I know that such a radical reduction in gear wouldn't be right for the majority of members here, but for me and where I am in my life at the moment, switching to carrying just one body and one lens has felt like a liberation.
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No matter how many lenses I possess, I never sold any of them. Long before digital I used a Minolta MD 35 mm film system, I had an SR1, an XE7, an XD11 and 5 X700 bodies plus 20 different lenses, from 16 mm fisheye to 400 mm APO telephoto. Then I started using a Pentax 67 which I traded for a 67 II when it became available and acquired 11 lenses over the years, from a 45 mm wide-angle to an M* 300 mm telephoto. Ten years later I got a Pentax 645N film camera and purchased 9 A-series lenses over time. I started digital in 2007 with a Pentax K10 and 2 kit lenses, slowly evolving as technology evolved to a K20, a K5, a K3 and finally to a K1. I purchased various and numerous F, FA, DA and DFA lenses for the digital bodies as they became available. In 2017, I got a deal I couldn't pass up on a Pentax 645Z and I acquired 6 additional 645 FA lenses. Sooo ... I have made a quick inventory and I think I have 75 lenses in all. I may be some kind of a hoarder, but all of these tools get used in rotation and I swear none of this will ever leave my house.

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I was starting to accumulate a lot of vintage lenses of various mounts (I also shoot Sony, so adapting there is easy). I did a Marie Kondo job on all my camera gear. Literally. Took everything out and put it on the big dining room table, sorted everything, and then looked at every item and asked myself "Why did I buy this?", "When was the last time I used it?", "When do I reasonably forsee myself using this again?" and "Did I get any real great photos with it, that I couldn't get with another lens?". After asking that, I'd say I cut my vintage lenses down by 2/3, keeping mostly just the SMC Pentax lenses, a Helios 44, and two R mount Leica lenses (which my next task is to do some comparison testing to determine if I'm keeping those). Sure, those lenses went to fund other purchases, but certainly the space I need to hold my gear is a lot smaller, and a lot more organized. I simply realized that I can't carry every lens I own with me, and I tend to be the type of person that keeps a packed gear backpack, and will mostly just grab that and go out, rather than pick and choose my lenses and create a kit for the day each time.

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QuoteOriginally posted by motorhead9999 Quote
I was starting to accumulate a lot of vintage lenses of various mounts (I also shoot Sony, so adapting there is easy). I did a Marie Kondo job on all my camera gear.
1) I hadda look up Marie Kondo
2) How dare you be organized and adult about your gear collection.
3) I'm so not doing that.

Thank you for your kind attention.
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QuoteOriginally posted by monochrome Quote
These are the lenses I confess to owning. There are more that I intend to sell. You count - if I don’t know the actual number I can’t confess the actual number.
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K17/4 Fish Eye | K18/3.5 | K20/4 | K24/2.8 | K24/3.5 | K28/2 | K28/3.5 | K28/3.5 Shift | K30/2.8 | K35/2 | K35/3.5 | K50/1.2 | K50/1.4 | K50/4 Macro | K55/1.8 | K55/2 | K85/1.8 | K100/4 Bellows | K100/4 Macro | K105/2.8 | K120/2.8 | K135/2.5 | K135/3.5 | K 150/4 | K200/2.5 | K200/4 | K300/4 | K400/5.6 | K500/4.5 | K1000/8

...
It seemed like you own every K series lens ever made, so I checked. The following are still missing:

  • K 15/3.5
  • K 1000/8
  • K 1000/11 reflex
  • K 2000/13.5 reflex
I am not sure that the reflex lenses count. The other two are quite rare, so you are excused.

We salute you!
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QuoteOriginally posted by Wasp Quote
It seemed like you own every K series lens ever made, so I checked. The following are still missing:

  • K 15/3.5
  • K 1000/8
  • K 1000/11 reflex
  • K 2000/13.5 reflex
I am not sure that the reflex lenses count. The other two are quite rare, so you are excused.

We salute you!
Look again.The Black Dragon is there

I own a couple of the zooms - 45-125/4 and 85-210/4,5 - but they all have zoom creep. I don’t have the K85/2.2 Soft or the 135-600 (I don’t want to pay $100 shipping from JAPAN) and I don’t care about the Reflex lenses.

Despairing of finding a good K15/3.5 I tool advantage of a great eBay price and bought an A15/3.5 (not shown as a lens I admit to owning, like the A50/1.2).

Click my link “Gear List” in my sig to see the full list.

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I'm doing my best to not read anyone's list, for fear that I'll find some new object of obsession. FWIW, I'm completely unfamiliar with any Pentax glass newer than the A-series, so I don't own those or search for them.

My LBA started with the Takumar club here, so...

I'm also doing my best to not expand into any other system. I keep drooling over the digital 645...and then I click on something else. To that end, I'm saved by the dearth of Pentax retailers to go to and lay hands upon unfamiliar gear. So, in not counting, I'm keeping my semi-rational self in check.

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Oh gosh y'all... prepare for a bloodbath.

*** indicates I plan to sell soon-ish (ie whenever I get off my rear to take photos & list them)

APS-C zooms
Sigma EX DC 10-20 f/3.5
Pentax 18-135 ***
Sigma EX DC 17-50 ***

APS-C primes
Rokinon 8mm CS II ***
Rokinon 10mm f/2.8
DA 15 (silver)
Rokinon 16mm f/2
DA 21 (silver)
DA 35 macro
DA 40 (silver)
DA 50 ***
DA* 55
DA 70 (silver)

Full Frame Standard zooms
D-FA 24-70
FA 24-90 ***
Sigma EX DG 24-70 HSM ***
A 35-105 f/3.5

FF Ultra-wide zooms
Sigma EX DG 12-24
Promaster 19-35 AF

Telephoto zooms
DA 55-300 WR ***
Sigma EX DG 70-200 HSM II
FA 70-320 ***
Sigma EX DG 50-500 OS
D-FA 150-450

Full Frame primes
Rokinon 14mm f/2.8 ***
Tamron SP AF 14mm f/2.8
Irix 15mm f/2.4
Rokinon 20mm f/1.8
Rokinon 24mm f/1.4
Rokinon 24mm T/S f/3.5
Sigma super-wide AF 24mm f/2.8 ***
FA 31
Sigma ART 35
FA 43 (silver)
FA 50 f/1.7 ***
D-FA 50 Macro
Sigma EX DG 50 f/1.4
K 55 f/1.8 ***
Helios-44 58mm
FA 77 (black & silver copies)
Sigma EX DG 85mm f/1.4
Rokinon 85mm f/1.4
D-FA 100 Macro WR
FA 135
Rokinon 135mm f/2
Irix 150mm Macro
DA* 200
F* 300
DA* 300
K 400 f/5.6 ***

What do you mean? I don't have a problem! I'm not married!!
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Look again.The Black Dragon is there
Oops, that's what happen when one is posting on internet forums way past one's bedtime.
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I'd like to get rid of all my K and M series in order to get funds for more Takumars (and for a FF mirrorless).
Taks have a kind of magic I just can't explain.

The list:

Auto focus:

Pentax DAL 18-55mm

Manual focus:

Takumars:
S-M-C Tak 24mm f3.5
S-M-C Tak 35mm f2
Auto Tak 35mm f3.5
Super Tak 35mm f3.5
S-M-C Tak 35mm f3.5
S-M-C Macro Tak 50mm f4
Super Tak 50mm f1.4
Super Tak 55mm f1.8 (only works from wide open to f7.1 or so)
Auto Tak 55mm f2.2
Auto Tak 55mm f1.8
S-M-C Tak 55mm f1.8
Super Tak 55mm f2
SMC Tak 55mm f2
Auto Tak 105mm f2.8
Super Tak 135mm f2.5
Tak 135mm f3.5 (Very first preset version)
Tak 135mm f3.5 (All black second preset version)
Auto Tak 135mm f3.5
Super Tak 135mm f3.5
S-M-C Tak 135mm f3.5
Tak Bayonet 135mm f2.8
S-M-C Tak 150mm f4
Super Tak 200mm f4
Tele Tak 200mm f5.6

K series:
24mm f2.8
28mm f3.5
35mm f3.5
50mm f1.2
50mm f1.4
50mm f4 Macro
55mm f1.8
105mm f2.8
135mm f2.5
135mm f3.5

M series
28mm f3.5
40mm f2.8
50mm f1.4
50mm f1.7
100mm f4 Macro
135mm f3.5
200mm f4

M42-M39:
Pentacon 29mm f2.8
Pentacon 30mm f3.5
CZJ Pancolar 50mm f1.8
CZJ Pancolar Electric 50mm f1.8 MC
CZJ Biotar 58mm f2
Schacht Ulm Travenon 135mm f4.5
Industar 50mm f3.5
Helios 44 silver 13 blades #0000xxx
Helios 44 silver 13 blades #000xxxx
Helios 44 8 blades Zebra
Helios 44 8 blades
Helios 44-2
Helios 44-2 (new barrell)
Helios 44-3
Helios 44-M
Helios 44M-4
Helios 44M-5
Helios 44M-6
Helios 44M-7
Pentacon 50mm f1.8
Pentacon 135mm f2.8
Fujinon 55mm f2.2
Jupiter 11 135mm f4
MIR1-SH 37mm f2.8
Fujita 135mm f4.5
Soligor 35mm f3.5
CZJ Tessar 50mm f2.8 silver
Volna-9 50mm f2.8
CZJ Sonnar 135mm f3.5
Tair 3 300mm f4.5
Tair 3phs 300mm f4.5 (full photosnaiper set)

Others in K mount:
Zenitar 16mm f2.8 fisheye
Revuenon 50mm f1.4
Topman 200mm f3.5
Sigma Mini Wide 28mm f2.8
Sigma Mini Wide II 28mm f2.8
Chinon 300mm f5.6

Zooms:
Pentax A 35-80mm
Sigma Beta II 60-200mm
Vivitar 75-205mm f/3.8
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^^^^^
THAT is a comprehensive list. You appear to have a soft spot for 135s. Looking at your Russian lenses, surprised to see no Jupiter-9, or maybe a Helios 44-K4.

Hit me up when you decide to part with the K24/2.8.
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