The Minolta Rokkor 38mm f2.8 is a really fun and unusual lens that produces gorgeous square bokeh!
The Olympus OM Zuiko 28mm f2.8 is a fantastic vintage wide-angle lens, with amazing build quality, gorgeous colors and excellent sharpness.
The Minolta Auto Tele Rokkor-QF 200mm f3.5 is one of the best bargains out there for a vintage lens in the 200mm focal length. Amazing sharpness and colors and unique vintage rendering!
The Konica Hexanon 21mm f4 is a fantastic ultra wide angle lens! Phenomenal performance with superb build quality! One of the my favorite lenses in my collection!
The Minolta MD W.Rokkor 35mm f2.8 is easily one of the best 35mm vintage lenses you can get! I absolutely love it!
The Minolta MC Rokkor-X PG 50mm f1.4 is a fantastic vintage nifty-fifty! It has phenomenal bokeh, and it’s crazy sharp when stopped down. One of my favorite 50mm lenses!
The Nikkor UD Auto 20mm f3.5 is one of the most affordable ultra wide angle lenses you can get. And it’s also a gem!
The Rikenon P Zoom 35-70mm f3.5-4.5 macro has been one of the biggest surprises I’ve come across in awhile! Amazing quality for less than $20!!
The Minolta MD Macro 50mm f3.5 is amazing - super sharp with gorgeous colors and still quite affordable for the superb quality you get! An absolute gem!
The Canon FD 100mm f2.8 SSC is a fantastic vintage lens - it is super sharp (even wide open), it has great colors, it is build extremely well. And on top of that it’s very affordable!
The Olympus OM Zuiko Auto Macro 135mm f4.5 is an outstanding vintage 135mm lens!! It is sharp as a razor, it produces gorgeous colors, it has no issues that I have to worry about and on top of that it can focus down to half life size! Definitely one of my favorites!
The Auto Sears 55mm f1.4 is one of my favorite vintage lenses! It’s bokeh is some of the most amazing I’ve ever seen from a 50-55mm lens. It is also very sharp when stopped down, it has great colors and it’s built like a tank! An absolute gem!
This ultra wide-angle vintage lens from Olympus is just amazing! Beautiful, rich colors, excellent sharpness and phenomenal build quality! One of my favorite vintage ultra wide-angle lenses.
This no-name little lens that came from a broken rangefinder from the 1950’s performs incredibly well! It is sharp, it produces great colors and has super smooth bokeh. A fantastic vintage lens that costs very little and is super easy to adapt to digital!
The Minolta MD zoom 75-150mm f4 is one incredible vintage zoom!! It performs amazingly well, it is super sharp, it has great colors and bokeh and it is still very affordable! Love this vintage zoom lens!
The Konishiroku Hexanon 47mm f1.9 is an amazing bargain for a vintage prime lens - it’s sharp, it produces great colors and has no issues with distortion or chromatic aberrations!
The Olympus G.Zuiko 4.2 cm f1.8 is one amazing little rangefinder lens! It is super easy to adapt to digital and performs incredibly well! I absolutely love this little gem!
The Pentax SMC Takumar 15mm f3.5!! A very special ultra wide-angle vintage lens!! One of my all-time favorites! An amazing performer with cinematic look!
The Nikkor 105mm f2.5!! This legendary Nikon lens has been used by many professional photographers such as Steve McCurry, Morton Beebe, Ken Biggs, John Dominis, Douglas Kirkland, Tom McCarthy and many others. It is without a doubt one of the best 100mm lenses ever made!
The Carl Zeiss Jena electric MC Sonnar 135mm f3.5!! This East German lens is fantastic! Great multicoated elements with amazing all-metal construction! One of the best 135mm from the good old days.
The Rikenon 35mm f2.8!! This super tiny vintage lens comes from the Ricoh Auto shot camera. If you want a really fun vintage lens with crazy triangular bokeh, than this is your lens! Step by step instructions on how to adapt this lens are included in the video.
The Industar 61, 52mm f2.8!! This Soviet lens belonged to my uncle who loved photography. A fantastic lens that produces great images with excellent colors and sharpness! One of the best Soviet lenses you can get.
The Mansfield Mantinar 40mm f2.8!! This quirky little lens comes from the Mansfield Eyetronic camera. It’s easy to adapt with step-by-step instructions included in the video. One of my favorite 4omm lenses. Great square bokeh!!
The Nikkor ED 180mm f2.8!! This vintage lens is simply spectacular! One of the best telephotos I have! Perfection and class!
I got this lens for only $1, and I was amazed at the amazing colors it produces!! One of the best deals for a vintage nifty fifty!
The Konishiroku Hexanon 48mm f2!! This was one of the most highly regraded lenses of the 1950’s! And it still performs extremely well today! Super easy to adapt to digital with step by step instructions in the video.
The Vivitar 28mm f2.8 close focus wide angle! This vintage wide angle lens is a great bargain if you don’t want to spend a lot on a wide angle lens! It can be found for less than $30, but it produces great results!
The Konica UC Zoom Hexanon, 45-100mm f3.5!! This spectacular zoom from the 1970’s still shines on a modern digital camera today! It’s got great minimum focusing distance, amazing colors and excellent sharpness. Another gem from Konica!
The Konica Hexanon 45mm f1.8!! This phenomenal lens comes from the Konica Auto S2. It’s super easy to adapt to digital and it produces amazing images!! One of my all-time favorites!
The Auto Chinon 55mm f1.7!! This vintage lens is a great bargain if you are looking for a lens that has that special out-of-focus rendering! Amazing bokeh!
The Canon FD 85mm f1.8! A phenomenal vintage lens that is still quite affordable and produces amazing results with stunning sharpness and colors! Absolutely love it!
The Konica UC Fish-Eye Hexanon AR is one of my most favorite lenses of all time! I love basically everything about this lens! If you want an amazing fish-eye lens, this one is definitely one of the best!
The SMC Pentax M Macro 100mm f4 is one of the best bargains for a 100mm macro lens! It’s very affordable, it has amazing colors and out-of-focus blur and it’s super sharp!!
The Zoom Nikkor 80-200mm f4 is one fabulous vintage lens! It was used by many professional photographers in the 80’s and it’s still an amazing performer!
The Auto Sears 135mm f2.8 is one of the best bargains for a vintage 135mm lens. Great build quality and excellent images for a ridiculously low price.
The Carl Zeiss Jena Flektogon 35mm f2.4 is one truly legendary 35mm lens! It is without a doubt one of the best 35mm lenses ever made.
The Nikkor 200mm f4 is a great bargain if you are looking for a vintage telephoto lens! It’s affordable, it’s extremely well made and performs on a very high level!
The Konica Zoom-Hexanon AR 70-150mm f4 is a great little vintage zoom lens that is affordable, light weight and produces really nice images.
The Canon FD 50mm f3.5 SSC is one of the best bargains for a vintage 50mm macro lens. It produces images with excellent sharpness and beautiful colors and it’s still very affordable on the secondhand market.
The SMC Pentax 50mm f1.2 is without a doubt one of the best vintage f1.2 lenses you can get! It is simply superb!
The Olympus H.Zuiko 24mm f2.8 is a fantastic wide angle lens! It’s small, lightweight and a great performer. Excellent for travel and landscape photography.
The Tokina ATX M90 90mm f2.5 is my favorite macro lens to date! This is without a doubt, one of the best macro lenses ever made! If you love macro photography you would love this lens!
The lens that started it all for me - The Meyer-Optik Gorliz 50mm f1.8! This was the first lens that I repaired and also the first vintage lens that showed me how magical old lenses can be. I fell in love with the rendering of old lenses and now I am completely obsessed. :)