Tighten Your Budget with FD Lenses
Posted by moshbrown in HDSLR, Reviews, Videos on Dec 17th, 2010 | 0 commentsWant some great new glass on a small budget? Check out old FD lenses! This excellent review of these lenses gives us a chance to pick up some new stock without breaking the bank. As Caleb says in the video, there are killer deals out there on manual SLR stuff. I’ve been wanting to pick up a couple more primes, and I think this is a nice way to play around without spending too much. There are some issues noted, like softness when shooting wide open. There is a slight loss of light when using the adapter, but for the price it looks like these can’t be beat.
Take a look at FD lenses on eBay and you can see the great deals. I actually just bid on a 28mm 2.8 Vivitar for $20. Not bad! The adapter you need to use these lenses on our Canons can be bought here. While my 50mm Zeiss is not an FD mount, it is a cheaper alternative due to being older and manual. I love it and think it was well worth the price. These lenses are even cheaper, and it seems like they produce some great results.
Take a look at what’s available and happy hunting!
Diary of a Lens Rental
Posted by moshbrown in HDSLR, Reviews on Oct 24th, 2010 | 0 comments
A lot of novice photographers and filmmakers make the same mistakes. Either we buy expensive lenses we end up never using, or we buy cheap lenses due to limited budgets. I bought the 50mm 1.8 II lens right after my kit lens broke. It’s the only lens I shoot with, and while I’m happy most of the time it does have it’s limitations. Focusing is very difficult. The focus ring is small and I’m almost always grabbing the fader ND ring rather than it. It was very inexpensive, but I know I want something more.
Before I dropped big bucks on a new telephoto, I discovered the world of gear rental. If you don’t know about these services, you’ve got to give them a try. I saw some posts on twitter from local shop Borrow Lenses and had to give it a try.
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