![]() ![]() They also hold their value much better than modern lenses. With some patience you can sell most manual lenses without a loss but with new lenses you can expect to lose 30% in the first year.They can last a lot longer than modern lenses which are full of electronics and very complex designs, both of which make them more likely to fail. Old lenses are usually beautifully built from nothing but metal and glass which makes it a joy to handle them.Of course progress has happened in recent years but still affordable primes are often sharper than very expensive modern zooms. There are 30-year-old primes with better image quality than many modern lenses.You have a huge choice between thousands of lenses ranging from exotic ones with lots of “character” to some of the very best lenses available. ![]() For the $1000 you would have to pay for that Zeiss you can buy an excellent set of five lenses from 20 to 300mm. For most applications such a lens will give you 90% of the performance of a $1000 Zeiss 1.8/55 FE. They can be very cheap, you can get a great 1.4/50 lens for $50. ![]()
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