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Originally Posted by Alice Morrison
List your favorite flea-market specials here. Which are the best overlooked old, used lenses?
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I would probably stay away from the flea markets unless you know exactly what you are looking for and all the stars are properly aligned that day. Seriously, there are many good manual focus third party lenses from which to pick, assuming manual focus is acceptable to you. You might check this website out for information on third party lenses
http://medfmt.8k.com/third/cult.html. As one who started out with pre-set lenses, manual focus is not a problem. My current 35mm cameras are the Olympus OM series. Although I have many of the Zuiko lenses, I also use both the Tamron SP and Tokina AT-X series. My current lenses from this group include Tamron SP, 24-48mm, 90mm f2.5 macro, 180mm f2.5, 300mm f2.8 & 400mm f4. I've also used the 17mm f3.5 SP, 80-200mm f2.8 and 60-300mm. I currently have the 80-200mm f2.8 Tokina AT-X. When looking for these lenses be sure to look at the SP and AT-X series as they are the pro-line for these two manufacturers. If you are like me and want the proper lenshood on your lenses, try to find lenses which have the hood with them. These can be very difficult and sometimes expensive to locate. Olympus Zuiko lenses are some of the best and each of the Tamron SP lenses replaced a Zuiko with the exception of the 90mm and in this case I have both the Taamron and the Zuiko. That Tamrons are all Adaptall 2 lens and can be used on most other cameras with the proper adapters. Try manual focus, you may like it. Bill Barber