I'm going out, okay? I've got a vintage Pentax 50mm here and we're going to take a little deeper day even to vintage lens and lenses and modern cameras to hopefully give you guys more options when it comes to buying your lenses because I know that's what these have provided for me. I'm going to buy it comes. So yeah, my name is Owen, I'm a photographer in general, I do are a serious based on the island of Ireland. I work with this as a bit of an Egypt but I do love to take the art photograph which you'll find below at my Instagram which is near below and my website orinbell.com. And yeah, again, enough with the blabbering, let's crack on with this video. As I said today we're going to take a look at my vintage 50mm that I got and I'm going to the benefits of all things vintage when it comes to lenses and photography and I'm going to challenge myself today while we're at the beautiful Killery Ford. Try and get seven, we'll go for seven, seven days a week. Try and get seven shots that I'm going to be happy with today while using this little beautiful lens and let's crack on, get some locations. Back to it, the weather went too absolute crap I didn't expect. I fell into like the whole vintage landscape purely by accident. I never really went out looking for one. This will Pintax P30. My dad had it sitting in a camera bag and he said oh yeah, take it with you and it's sat on a shelf there and then I realized I was like oh, there's actually a little lens on that thing. This little barboy, this 50mm and for 20 quid I'm going to buy this adapter ring. It's a PK-T-NEX so NEX is e-mount. So having this lens and how well it worked and the feeling enjoyed off it, gave me some really scope into looking into more lenses, more vintage lenses and seeing where we could go from there. So obviously your best place for finding these lenses I found was at eBay so there's a host of them on there and you'll find them. That brings into like five reasons why I would be all on the board for vintage lenses where I'd be like yes, sweet and shoot grandma, pick it up. But like the first reason I would have is price. They are cheap. You can find these lens anywhere from about 12 pounds to about 200 pounds. You'll find like a nice array of bunchet lenses there. You'll get all like there's 30, the loads of 35s and 50s. You'll find them everywhere and then going up you'll get some like macro lenses and the 100mm and 135mm range. Oh shit, newsly around F28, F2. You may get lucky and find some F18s there as well but they're all cheap and it's a great way to get into some focal lengths that you may never have used on the cheap. No, no, no, no. So build quality, these things are built really, really well. You want to hold them on your nose straight away. A lot of them are built out of metal with like some plastic pieces in them so you have like you'll see on this one's got the metal finish on them. A lot of my cheaper lenses aren't like that, they've just got that plastic. There's a few things you need to look out for on them with the built in regards to the build quality. They do tend to find some of them may have fungus or something growing on them and potentially the fungus could spread to other lenses in your kit if you store them all together. Usually down to lenses that may have been stored in moist environments for a long period of time and just haven't been taken care of the way they needed to be, you know. The third thing I find that is really good with these lenses is the skill improvements that it gives. They take away like you need to shoot these things pretty much manual or you need to think about how you're going to shoot them more often. So none of them will have auto focus and most of them will have like a separate aperture ring. So you set your aperture on the lens, not on the camera. So you'll find that the camera bodies just don't pick them up. They don't know what aperture you're shooting at. So you either shoot an aperture priority and just adjust your aperture on the lens or you go fully manual like I tend to do and work from there, you know. Focus peeking at on these Sony S7 3s is awesome and it works with these vintage lenses. So you get like a red outline around what's in focus and it's absolutely unreal. It's class-refocus and vintage lenses. So yeah, number four, I don't know, only four I've realised I've really got four so that's a big fail in my part. You know, a lot of the, like as manufacturing techniques and things have changed over the years, a lot of these lenses don't have the coatings that maybe some modern lenses have and because of that they give off a different feel now. What this one, this gets a very magenta, tinge to it, I find. That's not a good thing or a bad thing. It's more a style thing. Like that's what I find is like when you take these lenses out you end up getting like a really nice look. The lenses tend to be very soft around the edges. They're not going to be like absolutely really so sharp. You remember a lot of these lenses were built as budget lenses anyway and you know, they're not your L series or they're not like built optically perfect. So you know, with that because of that they filter the light differently because of all those things and you know, some of them kind of let them more light in, have like little light anomalies that we'll bring in and they can produce amazing lens flare as well as like really colorful flares as well. And interesting bokeh, you know, very very different to what you'd be expecting. Obviously I'll be throwing in a few test shots from this. You'll see the shots that I've taken today. So that was my take on vintage lenses. Good for price. You know, the build quality on the majority of them is great. Number three, you'll learn stuff out of them. And four, they've got that vintage look, the vintage feel, the vintage thing that everybody wants. So yeah, if you enjoyed this video do let me know. Like it's, you know, obviously is the given here on YouTube, give it a little thumbs up. That likes YouTube, know that this video was worth watching. Subscribe to let me know that you liked it and you want more of these videos. And yeah, tell me about your experiences with vintage lenses or lenses in general. What do you want? But what do you recommend next beyond the fifth, the good old Nifty 50? My, you know, ever growing 50 millimeter collection is getting bigger and bigger. Yeah, so if you want more go to my Instagram as well. I post their Monday Wednesday Friday and stories on a daily basis of whatever photography things I'm doing. Some of these 50 militias that I took today from Conamara and Kilarie Ford will be on my Instagram feed our stories. So yeah, really if you liked it, you know, let me know.