{"id":131,"date":"2014-09-30T20:56:10","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T01:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.limnetwork.net\/?p=131"},"modified":"2015-09-23T10:58:12","modified_gmt":"2015-09-23T15:58:12","slug":"my-favorite-lenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.limnetwork.net\/?p=131","title":{"rendered":"My Favorite Lenses for Film Photography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My favorite Nikon lenses when I was doing film photography (i.e., before 2005)\u00a0are&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Prime lenses: <strong>Nikkor AF\u00a020mm f\/2.8D<\/strong>, <strong>Nikkor 28mm f\/2.8 AI-s<\/strong>, <strong>Nikkor AF 85mm f1.4D<\/strong> and\u00a0<strong>Nikkor AF 300mm f\/4<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Zoom lenses: <strong>Nikkor AF 35-70mm f\/2.8D<\/strong> and <strong>Nikkor AF 80-200 f\/2.8D<\/strong>. I like the <strong>Nikkor 35-105mm f\/3.5~4.5 AI-s<\/strong>\u00a0for its size but it is too slow for low-light photography.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The only film photography I do now is on my Pentax LX.\u00a0 My favorite Pentax K-mount lenses are <strong>Pentax SMC-A 24mm f\/2.8<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Pentax SMC-A 35mm f\/2<\/strong>, <strong>Pentax SMC-M 50mm f\/1.4<\/strong>, <strong>Rokinon 85mm f\/1.4 Aspherical IF<\/strong>, <strong>Pentax SMC-M 135mm f3.5<\/strong>, <strong>Tamron MF SP 300mm f\/2.8 <\/strong>and <strong>Tamron MF SP 70-210 f\/3.5<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Other Pentax K-mount lenses I&#8217;ve used are <strong>Takumar 28mm f\/2.8<\/strong>, <strong>Pentax SMC-M 35mm f\/2.8<\/strong>, <strong>Pentax SMC-M 50mm f\/1.7 <\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Pentax SMC-A 50mm f\/1.7<\/strong> .<\/p>\n<p>The worst lenses I&#8217;ve used are <strong>Tamron MF SP 35-105mm f2.8<\/strong>, <strong>Nikkor 105mm f\/1.8 AI-s<\/strong> and <strong>Nikkor AF 24-50mm f\/3.3~4.5<\/strong> because they are not sharp wide open.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_194\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-194\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.limnetwork.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Eugene-2005.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-194\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.limnetwork.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Eugene-2005.jpg\" alt=\"Nikon F4e w\/ Nikkor AF 85mm f\/1.4D\" width=\"630\" height=\"473\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.limnetwork.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Eugene-2005.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.limnetwork.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Eugene-2005-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-194\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nikon F4e w\/ Nikkor AF 85mm f\/1.4D (2005)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_219\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-219\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.limnetwork.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/pentax-super-program.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-219\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.limnetwork.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/pentax-super-program.jpg\" alt=\"Pentax Super Program w\/ Pentax SMC-A 35mm f\/2\" width=\"300\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.limnetwork.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/pentax-super-program.jpg 615w, https:\/\/blog.limnetwork.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/pentax-super-program-180x300.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-219\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pentax Super Program w\/ Pentax SMC-A 35mm f\/2 (2004)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_221\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-221\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.limnetwork.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/nikon-f3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-221\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.limnetwork.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/nikon-f3.jpg\" alt=\"Nikon F3HP w\/ Nikkor 28mm f\/2.8 Ai-S\" width=\"630\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.limnetwork.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/nikon-f3.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.limnetwork.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/nikon-f3-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-221\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nikon F3HP w\/ Nikkor 28mm f\/2.8 AI-s (2000)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_232\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-232\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.limnetwork.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Me-and-the-Moon-1024x768.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-232\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.limnetwork.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Me-and-the-Moon-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Nikon F4s w\/ Nikkor AF 24-50mm f\/3.3~4.5\" width=\"630\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.limnetwork.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Me-and-the-Moon-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.limnetwork.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Me-and-the-Moon-1024x768-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-232\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nikon F4s w\/ Nikkor AF\u00a020mm f\/2.8D and Nikkor AF 80-200mm f\/2.8D (1994)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_222\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-222\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.limnetwork.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/pentax-lx2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-222\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.limnetwork.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/pentax-lx2.jpg\" alt=\"Pentax LX w\/ Pentax SMC-M 50mm f\/1.4\" width=\"630\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.limnetwork.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/pentax-lx2.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.limnetwork.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/pentax-lx2-300x191.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-222\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pentax LX w\/ Pentax SMC-M 50mm f\/1.4 (1991)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My favorite Nikon lenses when I was doing film photography (i.e., before 2005)\u00a0are&#8230; Prime lenses: Nikkor AF\u00a020mm f\/2.8D, Nikkor 28mm f\/2.8 AI-s, Nikkor AF 85mm f1.4D and\u00a0Nikkor AF 300mm f\/4. Zoom lenses: Nikkor AF 35-70mm f\/2.8D and Nikkor AF 80-200 f\/2.8D. I like the Nikkor 35-105mm f\/3.5~4.5 AI-s\u00a0for its size but it is too slow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.limnetwork.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.limnetwork.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.limnetwork.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.limnetwork.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.limnetwork.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/blog.limnetwork.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":531,"href":"https:\/\/blog.limnetwork.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions\/531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.limnetwork.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.limnetwork.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.limnetwork.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}