I have been looking at photos taken with older Nikon and Canon lenses on my digital cameras.
I know my modern EL L series lenses are sharp and excellent.
But I notice the older lenses have a look that just can't be described.
Have those of you who use older lenses noticed this. I don't mean your sharp 105 mm lens but the other feel the lens gives.
I use my FLM 100mm f4.0 lens and my EF 100mm f2.8 L lens and for some reason like the older lens for the look it does.
Nothing wrong with the EF lens, incredibly sharp etc. but just the feel imposed on the photos.
I will not post any photos but just want to know if others like older lenses for different reasons.

I own a Nikon crop sensor 24 megapixels camera. I don't own any Nikon vintage lenses. All my lenses are autofocus. There is a lens that has received good reviews, even by Ken Rockwell. It's the Nikon 28-80mm f3.3-5.6G lens. One uhh member claims this lens is as sharp as some current expensive Nikon lenses in this general focal range. I doubt it could compare to Nikon's 24-70mm f2.8. But, for a price of less than $70, used, from eBay, that's a pretty good review. IMO. If I already didn't have a zoom lens in that range area, I would be tempted to buy that lens. Vintage manual Minolta lenses from the late 1960s-1970s have very good reviews too. However, lens improvements are always on the horizon. Look at how Sigma has become better with their Art Lenses of late.

I have been looking at photos taken with older Nikon and Canon lenses on my digital cameras.
I know my modern EL L series lenses are sharp and excellent.
But I notice the older lenses have a look that just can't be described.
Have those of you who use older lenses noticed this. I don't mean your sharp 105 mm lens but the other feel the lens gives.
I use my FLM 100mm f4.0 lens and my EF 100mm f2.8 L lens and for some reason like the older lens for the look it does.
Nothing wrong with the EF lens, incredibly sharp etc. but just the feel imposed on the photos.
I will not post any photos but just want to know if others like older lenses for different reasons.

I have been looking at photos taken with older Nikon and Canon lenses on my digital cameras.
I know my modern EL L series lenses are sharp and excellent.
But I notice the older lenses have a look that just can't be described.
Have those of you who use older lenses noticed this. I don't mean your sharp 105 mm lens but the other feel the lens gives.
I use my FLM 100mm f4.0 lens and my EF 100mm f2.8 L lens and for some reason like the older lens for the look it does.
Nothing wrong with the EF lens, incredibly sharp etc. but just the feel imposed on the photos.
I will not post any photos but just want to know if others like older lenses for different reasons.

I currently have the "Rockwell Reviewed" Nikon Nikkor 28-80 f3.3 G lens. KICK ASS SHARP, aside from being cheap to acquire, I frequently buy them on eBay for around $50. My last (current one) was $25 at a garage sale with both caps and a CPL filter. I use it on a Fujifilm S2Pro, which is Fuji electronics in a Nikon body. Thinking about an adaptor to my Fuji X trans pretend rangefinder.

As Ken says, cheap construction and an eye opening SHARP lens, you can drop and break it and just buy another. They are all sharp.

HINT: the real identifier on this lens is the f3.3 max f-stop. Variations (not as sharp) are f3.5

These f3.3 lenses were made by the thousands and mounted to cheap Nikon N series film cameras. Often the best way to buy them is on an N50 to N90 camera on eBay, BUT CHECK THAT F-STOP. Half a stop faster than f3.5.

No special rendering or "drawing" characteristics, other than Sharp, Sharp, Sharp.

I have several old lenses and some are 50years old. I have to admit I bought them all from new.
I remember that some of them produced really sharp photographs and I still have the proof in negatives and prints.
I kept them so I could use them on any camera I bought with the same results.
This was true until I bought my first DSLR.
You see all of my previous lenses had M20 thread or were Tamron Adaptall.
The Adaptall (Original) fitting system adapters stopped being produced shortly after I bought the lens.
Now the bad part.
Without looking into the use of old lenses I opted for a Nikon DSLR, this was a mistake.
I like the camera and have no complaints with the results with the Nikkor lenses I bought.
I have since found out that the distance from the lens mount to the focal plane of the camera is smaller in Nikon cameras compared with other cameras.
This means that although old Nikkor lenses can be used on it with no problems, Practika or M20 lenses have to have an adapter with an auxiliary lens incorporated into it to allow for the shallower body if focus at infinity is required. Not many people don't want to focus at infinty!
Another lens behind the main lens unfortunately degrades the image and they are much softer than I remember and have proof of.
I have bought cheap and middle price range adapters and there isn't much difference between them.
I haven't used the expensive ones as I might as well buy a new lens.
The only lens I couldn't use at all was my Helios 50mm which came with my first SLR a Zenit B as the back elements of the lens go into the camera body when focusing.
It hits the auxiliary lens before full travel and I am worried about it hitting the mirror if used without the adapter.

I have been looking at photos taken with older Nikon and Canon lenses on my digital cameras.
I know my modern EL L series lenses are sharp and excellent.
But I notice the older lenses have a look that just can't be described.
Have those of you who use older lenses noticed this. I don't mean your sharp 105 mm lens but the other feel the lens gives.
I use my FLM 100mm f4.0 lens and my EF 100mm f2.8 L lens and for some reason like the older lens for the look it does.
Nothing wrong with the EF lens, incredibly sharp etc. but just the feel imposed on the photos.
I will not post any photos but just want to know if others like older lenses for different reasons.