One man's junk

is another's junk also... For $100, I picked up these lenses along with useless 2 Video Cameras, Canon t-50, and a minolta film camera. There were 2 canon FD 50mm f1.8 lenses & Yashinon DS 50mm f1.7.. 5 tele-converters including an M42 mount extension tubes. Some lenses I've never heard of which I probably couldn't give away. There's a Haminex 135mm f2.8 lens with an unknown mount..not Canon, Minolta, Nikon, or M42.

They are all clean though... I just bought them.. don't know what to do with it now.

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Cool, i would have bought them too. But like you I don't know what I would do with it. Probably display them on a shelf somewhere.

rxjohn wrote in post #12241581
is another's junk also... For $100, I picked up these lenses along with useless 2 Video Cameras, Canon t-50, and a minolta film camera. There were 2 canon FD 50mm f1.8 lenses & Yashinon DS 50mm f1.7.. 5 tele-converters including an M42 mount extension tubes. Some lenses I've never heard of which I probably couldn't give away. There's a Haminex 135mm f2.8 lens with an unknown mount..not Canon, Minolta, Nikon, or M42.

They are all clean though... I just bought them.. don't know what to do with it now.

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now it's your "junk" !

I have an M42 to EOS adapter coming next week. I'll give some of these lenses a try. There's a 400mm f6.3 baton looking thing..I'm curious.

There's a Vivtar 70-210 f3.5 macro lens (minolta mount) I may play around with... ehh.. what the heck was I thinking.

It will be hard to do anything with the FD lenses. It will be interesting to see what you can do with the M42 mount lenses though.

You're going to have a lot of fun in the next month or so..

I'm already having fun! Taken with 550D and nifty fifty. These are some of the M42 mount (could be T mount) lenses.

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Subscribing to see what else you put up. Cool stuff you found here.

That's a cool cache you found! I agree the temptation to buy all those for $100 would be too much for me to pass up. I'd probably get reversing rings for them and play around with macro. Or dust off the old AE-1 and waste some money on film.

There's a 400mm f6.3 - presumed manufactured by Tamron but sold under different names.. Tele Astranar and Spiratone.. and a very smooth fitting 2X TC.. that puts it at 800mm. I'm going to give it a try.

Here's a picture of JCP Diamatic Zoom manufactured by Sigma. Nifty fifty was placed there for a size comparison. This pictures is taken with a Nikkor 50mm f1.4.

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Some of those old lenses can really hold their own with today's glass. I can tell you right off the bat that the Vivitar Series 1 70-210mm you have there is one of the more highly regarded zoom lenses ever. The Yashinon 50/1.7 is a very nice lens as well. I had one of those on my Yashica Electro-X film camera.

The 400/6.3 is probably an old T-Mount lens. That particular lens was sold under a bunch of names (Tele-Lentar, Soligor, Spiratone, etc.). You should have no problem finding a cheap T-Mount to M42 adapter on eBay.

maxwell1295 wrote in post #12245923
Some of those old lenses can really hold their own with today's glass. I can tell you right off the bat that the Vivitar Series 1 70-210mm you have there is one of the more highly regarded zoom lenses ever. The Yashinon 50/1.7 is a very nice lens as well. I had one of those on my Yashica Electro-X film camera.

The 400/6.3 is probably an old T-Mount lens. That particular lens was sold under a bunch of names (Tele-Lentar, Soligor, Spiratone, etc.). You should have no problem finding a cheap T-Mount to M42 adapter on eBay.

I'm kinda hoping it's an M42 mount... as I have an M42 to ESO adapter coming today or tomorrow. And 4 other lenses look like they have the same mount.