Cheap Shots

I've been playing about with some dirt cheap lenses recently:



K10D, Super Ozeck II 28mm F2.8 in KA/KR fit (£3.20)



*istDS, Carl Zeiss Jena 50mm F2.8 (£5.01)



K10D, Prinz Galaxy 135mm F3.5 (£0.99)



*istDS, Helios 44-2 58mm F2 (£2.40)

Nice shots. You got yourself some bargain bin specials there

If the first two are of the same flower, the colours in the second one are much better. Which is more accurate?

Difficult to say as they were shot on different days and in significantly different lighting conditions.

Cheers. The Prinz Galazy isn't very good (quite soft even stopped down and with a bit of CA as well) but the others are decent enough especially as all those example shots were with the lenses wide open.

I really like the look of the Helios in the last pic - are these all M42 mount or are any of them K mount?

I've not done a lot with it yet but I was quite surprised at it's sharpness wide open and the colour & contrast seem good as does the "bokeh" (I hate that term!). There always seem to be loads of them cheap on Ebay.

The Super Ozeck is a KR fit so once the problem pin is removed it functions like a KA mount although while the aperture info comes through fine the focal length doesn't. The Prinz Galaxy is a T-mount and the other two are M42.

I've just spent the last hour scouring eBay and I see what you mean - not exactly hard-to-come-by are they?

I wasn't going to buy any more lenses right now but I may have to make an exception - almost too cheap not to buy one!