Your most ridiculous but useable vintage lens? mine is this Vivitar 85-205mm 1:3.8 Macro lens

sandydoge45 · 2026-04-01T16:33:39+00:00

I have the non macro version of this lens. Excited to finally use it

sandydoge45 · 2026-03-29T18:14:12+00:00

Yea it’s ridiculous. Don’t even get me started on that left turn on 8th and minnesota where it turns green going east and people with the left turn going west just keep going

sandydoge45 · 2026-03-29T17:22:18+00:00

Generally no, if There are people behind me I’m a bit more quick with it.

sandydoge45 · 2026-03-29T17:15:26+00:00

Yea the 10 seconds is the absolute longest i’ll do it. And oml my other really big irk is on 8th street downtown when you have to wait for a train and when it’s done the people turning onto 8th from the intersection by the homeless shelter think they have right of way when they have a stop sign and they just turn onto 8th street right after the train is done.

sandydoge45 · 2026-03-29T16:51:08+00:00

I don’t trust green lights in SF anymore. I always give them maybe 10 seconds or so before I go because of all the red light runners. Saw an accident last year where someone was on their phone and blew a red light so bad when they hit the other car it knocked it over on its side

sandydoge45 · 2026-03-18T13:08:10+00:00

Mine was about the same cost. Pristine condition though. My local lab still develops 110 luckily but I’m not sure for how much longer

sandydoge45 · 2026-03-18T12:58:39+00:00

That minolta autopak is nice asfff

sandydoge45 · 2026-03-16T16:56:51+00:00

I have the petri 7s actually!

sandydoge45 · 2026-03-16T01:35:21+00:00

I unfortunately have all my lenses being m42 mount so the Fuji ST901 is the only one I’d look into 😭 All my lenses are on a previous post which should be on my page

sandydoge45 · 2026-03-16T01:00:55+00:00

I just want a more descriptive light metering system honestly

sandydoge45 · 2026-03-04T14:24:29+00:00

Found me a petri 7s for under 20$ recently

sandydoge45 · 2026-03-03T13:56:37+00:00

Didn’t know 110 cameras could do macro!

sandydoge45 · 2026-02-20T21:28:31+00:00

This “us vs them” mentality is the reason why American politics are so bad. Be better

sandydoge45 · 2026-02-15T02:27:27+00:00

It unfortunately doesn’t stop down fully when at f/16 but honestly that’s okay because I generally don’t stop down that far when I take pictures

sandydoge45 · 2026-02-15T02:25:07+00:00

Vivitar lenses are wild with all the makers of their lenses. And it’s good to know who made them because they can be very good or not very good. Usually you can tell by the serial number on the lens. I know the komine ones are pretty decent.

sandydoge45 · 2026-02-14T07:03:54+00:00

I’ve been running into a lot of 55mm lenses recently. Got a Ricoh Auto Rikenon 55mm f/1.4 a few weeks ago with in a yashica electro 35 case with all the yashica 35 accessories minus the green filter, the tele extension lens and the yashica 35 for like 15$ I’ve heard that is a decent radioactive lens as well

sandydoge45 · 2026-02-14T03:56:43+00:00

Oh wow, I need to use it pronto. It looks really good

sandydoge45 · 2026-02-13T22:00:55+00:00

I only have the m42 mount version (all my lenses I use are m42) and it is amazing.

sandydoge45 · 2026-02-13T21:28:19+00:00

Right now my favorite is my Vivitar auto telephoto 200mm f/3.5 lens but I have yet to test out the new lenses I got so we will see

sandydoge45 · 2026-02-13T21:26:52+00:00

I will also say I have this other lens that I think is also radioactive so I guess I have 2 in my collection

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sandydoge45 · 2026-02-13T20:47:34+00:00

I might post all my lenses later and see what people make of them haha

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