Any good legacy C/Y lenses?

[historicalpoultry]

Hi,

 

So still playing around with legacy lenses on my a6500 and realised that my mother had a couple lenses for an old Yashica slr. Namely a Tamron adaptall 2 28mm f2.5, a Tokina 80-200mm f4 and a Tokina 35-70mm f4. So I bought an adapter to try them out and to be honest, all of them are not great and I have better alternatives. So to get to the point, is there anything in terms of legacy lenses that may be easier and more cheaply to obtain with a C/Y mount than with other legacy mounts? Otherwise I'm just going to flip the adapter and be done with it.

 

Thanks!

[xQubeZx]

5 hours ago, historicalpoultry said:

Hi,

 

So still playing around with legacy lenses on my a6500 and realised that my mother had a couple lenses for an old Yashica slr. Namely a Tamron adaptall 2 28mm f2.5, a Tokina 80-200mm f4 and a Tokina 35-70mm f4. So I bought an adapter to try them out and to be honest, all of them are not great and I have better alternatives. So to get to the point, is there anything in terms of legacy lenses that may be easier and more cheaply to obtain with a C/Y mount than with other legacy mounts? Otherwise I'm just going to flip the adapter and be done with it.

 

Thanks!

Doubt it. The Canon FD and Nikon F mount has a lot of great lenses avalible for quite decent prices. The Leica-M mount is also quite popular but those seems to be hard to find for cheap. 

 

 

[cc143]

I'm sure you'll find something if you look hard enough, but I wouldn't expect a dumb adapter for the CY mount to have cost more than $10 anyway so its not like you've sunk that much into it anyway. 

 

M42 has some pretty cheap gems as well, like the pentacon 50mm 1.8 and helios 58mm f/2. 

 

For FD, here is a handy list of all FD lenses ever made: 

 

https://www.cameraplex.com/list-every-canon-fd-lens-ever-made/

[iEatBalls]

C/Y mount Contax Zeiss glass is what you would expect from Zeiss, but obviously not cheap. There's a good thread on the reduser forums here: http://www.reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?92044-Contax-Zeiss-Survival-Guide . If I were to build a set of lenses for video I'd be looking at finding some and adapting. Cheap compared to cine lenses but more expensive than a new lens from Nikon/Canon.