Hi guys,
Ok. Which lens do you vote for as the all time people's lens? This question might appeal to some of the old timers who grew up with the likes of Zeiss,Leica,Rollieflex or those of us who made do with Zenith,Zorki and others.
The Kodaks the folding Voigtlanders with their Tessars and all of the uncoated but super sharp optics. This question is aimed at all, includes modern optics, in fact all optics. And yours Klaus?
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What do you exactly mean with people's lens?
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What do you exactly mean with people's lens?
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A lens that is affordable and is in plentiful supply, like the Volkswagen was the people's car, the model T Ford etc.
I vote for the Kodak Brownie!
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Right now in the Canon world, it would have to be the EF 50mm f/1.8 II. Everyone seems to get one sooner or later, which may or may not be related to it being one of the cheapest lens you can buy new out there.
I can't really speak for older lenses as they're before my time.
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A lens that is affordable and is in plentiful supply, like the Volkswagen was the people's car, the model T Ford etc.
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Historically: The Cooke Triplet or even simpler (e.g. achromat or even meniscus). Tessars were premium products and Planars (double Gaussians) for most people unaffordable.
Today it must be the simple lens in a mobile phone. Even a simple 18-55 std-zoom is quite a specialist item I think.
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If you had asked this last month, I would say 50mm 1.8D... But today I can say that the successor -50mm 1.8G- is the one...
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03-16-2012, 10:13 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-16-2012, 10:28 PM by Brightcolours.)
"people's lenses" must be the Schneider -Kreuznach Retina-Xenon 50mm f2/f2.8 series found in the Kodak Retina models.
It brought quality range finder optics for almost affordable prices to "the masses" in the 1950's.
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Hi,
Well the answer to my own question as to which is my favorite people's lens is,is, is,wait for it(music swells in the background) is, Yes you've guessed it;The Tamron Di11 SP AF 17-50mm F2.8 XR LD aspherical (IF) Great lens
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The real people's lens these days is the lens that comes standard with most bodies sold: the ~18-~55 or similar/equivalent kit lens... <img src='http://forum.photozone.de/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='  ' />
Not my choice, but it certainly is the most sold one, on any type of system with exchangeable lenses.
Similarly, for the old times it is the 50 mm F/1.7s, 50 F/1.8s and 50 F/2s, which were the kit lenses in the 35 mm slr days.
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