The OG Lens thread!!

Canon made some top notch glass before the digital take over, let's hear it for some of those lenses. 100-300 L f5.6, 28-105 f3.5-4.5 macro 7-blade, 28-70 3.5-4.5 kit that came with the EOS 650. I know there are people here shooting with them.

I love my L lenses but I've always wanted to put some of the film glass on my 5d just to see the results. I went from bottom of the barrel kit glass straight into pro-grade L glass and I missed out on a ton of good lenses.

Those lenses work very well on a 5D. If you don't still have yours, there are plenty on Craigslist if you want some lower end lenses.

I'm not parting with my L glass anytime soon I've just always been intrigued by older Canon film lenses for some reason.

Never used any of them but zooms back then weren't very good.

1990's EF 70-210mm f3.5-4.5 USM is the best Canon telephoto zoom this side of the 70-200Ls.

1987's EF 50mm f1.8 Mark I was one of the first lenses in the system and puts the current Mark II to shame.

The 50mm f1.0L dates from 1989.

Quite a few current lenses still date from the pre-digital 90's, for example: 50mm f1.4, 85mm f1.8, 100mm f2.8, 70-200mm f2.8. The 50mm f1.4's optical design actually goes back over 40 years.

The 28-105mm 3.5-4.5 is a pretty nice lens. Fast focusing and really compact!