Why I love these cheap, vintage lenses

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5 ай бұрын

Over the past few years I've been building up my set of vintage Nikon lenses (also known as Nikkor). They were originally manufactured 40-50 years ago and were meant as still lenses for 35mm cameras, but because of their beautiful optics, their durability, and the ease with which you can adapt them to modern cameras, they make fantastic prime lenses for video.
I talk about why I think every filmmaker should have a set of vintage prime lenses (they don't have to be these) and how using old manual prime lenses forces you to slow down and be more thoughtful when setting up a shot.
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@sorenjohnstone9137 5 ай бұрын

I love my Takumar set. These old lenses will definitely outlive us. I am always surprised when you compare the build quality with some of these newer plastic lenses. The quality difference is night and day. Great video!

@deanpeter2on 5 ай бұрын

Takumar’s are awesome, I’ve looked into those over the years.

@Matthew_Chung 5 ай бұрын

Great to see you here!

@sorenjohnstone9137 5 ай бұрын

@@Matthew_Chung Cheers! I'm loving the 28mm. I hope your FD search is going well!

@aWOLtrooper 5 ай бұрын

I wish more content creators would be up front with the, "It's subjective, there is no best". I preach that myself in mini painting, and it bothers me that so many people think it's a good idea to race out in search of "The best" X or Y without understand their own process, their own "voice" in the hobby, yet diving into expensive gear and sophisticated techniques.

@damiendehorn6350 5 ай бұрын

I have a set of Nikkor AIs, Minolta MD3, Canon Fd, Rollei, Pentax M/K, Takumar, and Chinon. Yup ive dived head first into the rabbit hole of vintage glass.

@deanpeter2on 5 ай бұрын

Damn you went hard

@xeo98.98 5 ай бұрын

I’m not sure if I want a kit like this or Kitten like that orange beauty !! I have a few vintage lenses all have different feeling and character traits

@deanpeter2on 5 ай бұрын

She’s vintage too.

@willfulmattergonefr 5 ай бұрын

I loooove the Leica Summicron primes. My grandfather passed his 50mm f/2 down to me about 10 years ago and I use it on basically every project I work on. I love it so much I literally had the element design tattooed on my right arm. I should be able to squeeze some discount out of the peeps at the Leica store.

@deanpeter2on 5 ай бұрын

Wow what a thing to inherit!

@moviedorkproductions9465 5 ай бұрын

Thank You!!! I shoot vintage glass with my Sony Mirrorless camera for a variety of reasons: 1. I can't imagine spending the equivalent of a car payment or mortgage payment to get the same look or better by spending the equivalent price of a haircut or dinner at a nice restaurant. 2. I don't have to have In Lens Stabilization; I have a tripod. 3. Manual lenses are going to make you slow down to set up your shots and, in turn, prepares you if you have any changes that happen as those situations do occur. 4. What the images vintage glass creates is COOL, ORIGINAL, CLASSIC, and it happens In Camera, not post (which is ALWAYS a plus!). *5. Nikon manual lenses from back in the day is THE BEST! Every lens was coated differently, so every lens will get everyone a unique look to whatever they are making.

@BryceDearden 5 ай бұрын

I still have my Olympus OM 50mm f/1.8 I got after Caleb Pike made a video about it all the way back in 2014. I was brand new to even using cameras then.

@randyk1919 5 ай бұрын

I really enjoy my old Nikkors, as well..the majority being the AI versions. I started picking these up several years ago when I purchased my Fuji X-T3, primarily due to the low cost and beautiful rendering. Currently my kit includes the 20mm f3.5, 24mm f.2.8, 35mm Nikkor-P f2.8, 55mm Micro f3.5, 85mm f2, 100mm Series E f.2.8, and 105mm Nikkor-S f2.5. All are nice and some are downright amazing, but the quality of the Series E in particular, was a complete surprise.

@deanpeter2on 5 ай бұрын

That’s a solid kit!

@cubax26 5 ай бұрын

Great video Dean. I have Canon FD lenses. But I’ve always wanted to try the Nikon Nikkor lenses. I can’t stand the ultra sharp digital look. I love the creamy smooth filmic look that vintage lenses offer. Sofia Coppola recently shot Priscilla digitally, but it has a nice look and not super digital. I wonder if she used vintage lenses. Thank you Dean.

@deanpeter2on 5 ай бұрын

I love how Priscilla looked too.

@jessica_s9651 5 ай бұрын

Nice, I got a Nikon 24mm f2.0 Ai lens a few months ago. And just recently got my adapter. Looking forward to it.

@thesafe6461 5 ай бұрын

I've been using Super Weistar-DM 35mm 2.8. It is not that known but that too makes it cool :)

@jonOh44 5 ай бұрын

Anywhere we can see some sample footage of these lenses in use? would be nice! Im looking at a vintage set and I have Nikon bodies so could be good for stills also for me

@deanpeter2on 5 ай бұрын

I’ll put something together!

@BriefHorrors 5 ай бұрын

I built a modded cine kit from Pentacon 29, 50 and 135. The 29 and 50 have swirly bokeh, they are radioactive and all have a cool German Democratic Republic (GDR) stamp on them. But in the end, they were cheaply mass produce lenses that are pretty soft. I went through a phase of collecting vintage lenses with character, for short films I never got around to making. Have an OG Ironglass rehouse that was done very poorly, this was back when they were just a couple of dudes. Either way they didn't give me my money back and just offered free shipping on my next purchase. Been thinking of replying to their old email and asking them for a new lens now that they have made lenses for Hollywood films and stuff. Gonna do the "healthy" thing and get rid of all this stuff(my room desperately needs the space) and reinvest in the sirui nightwalker set as they are true cine lenses with focus rings on the same spot but also are sharp while having character. Gonna keep my Meteor f1.9 17-69mm tho, that thing is heavy enough to bludgeon an intruder and zooms with a freaking lever. thank you for coming to my ted talk.

@deanpeter2on 5 ай бұрын

The Sirui lenses look great.