It seems almost obligatory that I mention, in this thread, my three very old lenses.
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I bought all of these sometime in late 1986, along with an F2 Photomic body. All were made in the late 1960s to early 1970s. I now routinely use all of them on my D3200, in spite of Nikon's insistence that I cannot.
This is my 50mm ƒ1.4 lens, the “standard” lens for my F2.
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And a 28mm ƒ3.5. “Wide angle” for my F2, but close to a “normal” lens for my D3200, if mounting something this primitive on a D3200 can be called “normal”.
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And my 85-205mm ƒ3.8 Vivitar zoom lens. This lens has some very interesting characteristics, which I have shown off in some other threads. At smaller aperture settings, it produces good, sharp images, but at wider settings, it produces some interesting distortions that give the pictures a quality that I want to describe as “dreamy”.
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Here are a few examples of “dreamy” pictures taken with the Vivitar at wide aperture settings…
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