Dec 02, 2012 13:59 | #1 I am looking for a vintage or fully manual kit lens that ranges 10mm-50mm Any suggestions. I have found a few 18-28mm but I really would like to hit the 50mm mark or near it if it is possible. On the wide end 10-18mm is fine I am just having trouble finding anything. Wes
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Dec 02, 2012 14:01 | #2 Just to update the only lens on my list at this point is the Vivitar 19-35mm Wes
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SkipD Cream of the Crop  20,476 posts Likes: 165 Joined Dec 2002 Location: Southeastern WI, USA More info | Dec 02, 2012 14:52 | #3 calypsob wrote in post #15316506  I am looking for a vintage or fully manual kit lens that ranges 10mm-50mm Any suggestions. I have found a few 18-28mm but I really would like to hit the 50mm mark or near it if it is possible. On the wide end 10-18mm is fine I am just having trouble finding anything. It's going to be really tough to find any fully manual lenses in those focal length ranges. The reason is that most lenses in the 10-xx range were designed for the APS-C format digital cameras. Prior to digital SLRs coming on the market, the shortest focal length I am aware of was 16mm. Even those were auto-focusing lenses. Prior to the age of auto-focusing, I'm not aware of any rectilinear (non-fisheye) lenses for 35mm film cameras that were shorter than about 20mm. Skip Douglas
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JeffreyG "my bits and pieces are all hard"  More info | Dec 02, 2012 15:59 | #4 What Skip said. Plus, there were not a lot of optically very good zoom lenses when you go back more than 20 years or so. So a vintage zoom is probably going to be kind of a dud. My personal stuff:http://www.flickr.com/photos/jngirbach/sets/
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SkipD Cream of the Crop 20,476 posts Likes: 165 Joined Dec 2002 Location: Southeastern WI, USA More info | Dec 02, 2012 16:05 | #5 JeffreyG wrote in post #15316907 What Skip said. Plus, there were not a lot of optically very good zoom lenses when you go back more than 20 years or so. So a vintage zoom is probably going to be kind of a dud. How true. Back in 1967, I bought two Nikon F cameras and wanted a zoom lens but could find none that came anywhere close to the quality of the four fixed focal length Nikkor lenses I bought and used heavily for many years (28, 50, 105, and 300mm). Skip Douglas
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Dec 03, 2012 20:24 | #6 Well that sums it up. Samyang pay attention you could make a killing, make a manual 18-55mm! Looks like I will roll with the vivitar for now Wes
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TooManyShots Cream of the Crop 10,203 posts Likes: 532 Joined Jan 2008 Location: NYC More info | Dec 03, 2012 20:51 | #7  Permanent banContax/Zeiss 35-70 f3.4. Nice lens and ain't cheap either.... One Imaging Photography
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Dec 04, 2012 14:04 | #8 Yes this would be a great lens but it certainly breaks the $100 barrier Wes
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