Hi Lex,
Could you give the URL for Albro/Monaghan. BTW, I tried searching for
Monaghan Photography w/Yahoo and turned this up.
http://www.county-monaghan.net/mps/
John P
Lex Jenkins wrote:
>
> For the benefit of folks who haven't browsed that wonderful site maintained
> by Jeff Albro and Robert Monaghan (and why haven't you!), don't be put off
> or mislead by those prices.
>
> What Robert has done here is to show what a bargain third party lenses are
> in today's economy by showing the effect of inflation on the original retail
> prices. No one in his right mind is going to pay a thousand bucks for a
> preset 135mm.
>
> However you can routinely buy these lenses for $10-$25, a pittance, and well
> worth the risk. My Lentar 135/3.5 preset T-mount is one of the finest
> lenses of any kind I've ever had the privelege of using. Cost - a mere $15.
> I normally use it with my Can-not-an-OM-on T70s, which lack DOF preview,
> for portrait and even macro work, where it shines when combined with a
> generic 2x teleconverter stripped of optical elements to make an extension
> tube.
>
> I also plan to buy a preset wide angle and experiment with incorporating it
> into a homebrewed shift adaptor mount, using plans adapted from those found
> elsewhere on the Albro/Monaghan site. The advantage to such lenses is that
> lacking projecting levers for automatic diaphragm control, adapting such
> lenses to various bodies is easier.
>
> And if the project flops, well, I'm only out $10 or so.
>
> Another project (i.e., lens butchering exercise) I'm currently working on
> involves stripping a crummy third party zoom of everything but the focusing
> and zoom helical tubes. I plan to install a Vivitar 10x close up diopter
> lens in the front as use this contraption as a single element soft focus
> portrait lens, similar to that used decades ago and one currently sold by
> Spiratone for $90. I figure I now have $15 worth of parts and $300 worth of
> aggravation invested in the project. I've discovered time passes more
> quickly and pleasantly if I work on the project only while watching bad
> horror movies and WCW Smackdown.
>
> Lex
> ===
>
> >From: "Tom Trottier" <TomATrottier@xxxxxxxx>
> >Subject: Re: [OM] Response to question on third party lenses - further
> >thoughts
> >Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 22:43:15 -0400
> >
> >[snip] ... from http://www.smu.edu/~rmonagha/third/table3.txt
> >
> >3rd party lenses:
> >
> >Make FL f/ year price present-value type notes
> >vivitar 135 1.5 68 $390 $1,853 preset tele (T-
> >mount)
> >soligor 135 1.5 77 $400 $1,108 preset tele (T-2 mount)
> >vivitar 135 1.8 68 $230 $1,093 preset tele (T-mount)
> >spiratone 135 1.8 70 $100 $429 preset tele
> >soligor 135 1.8 70 $300 $1,286 preset tele (T-2 mount)
> >spiratone 135 1.8 73 $135 $513 auto tele
> >soligor 135 1.8 73 $330 $1,255 auto tele
> >sigma 135 1.8 74 $230 $800 auto tele
> >rokunar 135 1.8 75 $180 $560 auto tele
> >samigon 135 1.8 75 $260 $808 auto tele
> >sigma 135 1.8 76 $250 $728 auto tele (XQ)
> >spiratone 135 1.8 77 $100 $277 auto tele (MC)
> >formula 5 135 1.8 77 $225 $623 auto tele
> >kyvyx cor 135 2 68 $209 $993 preset tele komura
> >soligor 135 2 76 $280 $816 auto tele
> >
> >The "present value" is the original price, inflation adjusted to
> >1998.
> >
> >If you're willing to go a little longer, how about:
> >http://www.cameraquest.com/zoomar13.htm
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