Vintage Tokina Lens Test............

[Kelley (Texas)]

As some of you know, I anticipate in this great hobby on a budget, usually taking pictures with vintage Minolta lenses purchased at bargain prices. These old lenses are from the old film days and are attached to your camera using an adapter. I use a Sony NEX-6 camera and the adapter I use is for mounting vintage Minolta lenses to the camera, and can be purchased for around twelve dollars.

I recently bought a vintage Tokina 35-105mm F3.5/4.3 lens for thirty dollars that had the vintage Minolta mount. It was not a Minolta lens, but I figured I would give it a try. There was not very much information about this old lens on the Internet, and I suspect this lens was probably made in the 1970's.

The test pictures below were taken a few days ago. Please be reminded that these are just the first test pictures taken with this lens, and I will be taking more pictures to determine what kind of pictures this lens is capable of producing for me with my limited experiences in photography. I used my Sony Nex-6 camera set at ISO 200 so that I could limit noise, Manual Focus, Manual Mode. So far, I have found the pictures to be on the soft side, but found that I could overcome it by using "Unsharp Mask" when editing the pictures. I need to take more test pictures before I decide if it is a keeper. I really enjoy playing with these old lenses.

The first two test pictures were taken at a rock quarry a short distance North of San Antonio. The third test picture was an old house in Bracken, Texas. The picture of the lens is a stock picture and was not taken by me. Kelley (Texas)

 

[Nancy-IL]

Not bad at all Kelley. Can't wait to see more of your project. I really like that last picture of the scalloped siding.

 

[Kelley (Texas)]

caught my attention because of the door in the upper end of the house. It was a neat old house that was probably built back in the 1930's. I also thought the scalloped siding was neat. I would have loved to have been capable of metal detecting the large yard. Kelley (Texas)

 

[Nancy-IL]

Oh yes, that would be a great place to swing the detector. Too bad you don't know that owners. Maybe a little researching will open up the doors.

 

[Ron J]

Amazing how the Quarry businesses have their own Trains.
It is great to see your back on the road. You must be mending pretty well!
Ron

 

[Nauti]

Nice to see you using the old lenses and getting great results.I have some lovely old cameras including olympus om1's and a pentax mx.......i'm tempted to put some film in them and use them again but the cost of processing film is getting a bit silly.Some of the old lenses are brilliant and well worth using if you can adapt them to your camera.