Vintage Lenses

Hi there. All you outdoor photographers. It's Matt Bishop today. Pro landscape photographer for outdoor photography guide. Coming you directly from Senna in beautiful Italy. I've got a little tip for everyone today. Vintage lenses. I don't know if you guys know much about vintage lenses out there, but they're an incredible lens and they're a great uh cheap alternative to mix it up and play around a little bit with your photography. Uh This one here is the Pentax S MC, 1.7 50 mil lens. Now, these lenses are a great old vintage lens from the, ah, film era. They're a beautiful, beautiful piece of glass and they're a very, very common lens to use back in university days when the university students who were studying photography, they use these lenses because 50 mil is very close to the eye, but there's many focal leaks out there. 24 85. Um The beautiful thing is F 1.7. That's a wide, lovely aperture. You can get in really, really close to a scene and have this really, really beautiful bouquet in the background. The only, yeah, the downside is they're manual lenses but having manual gives you the appreciation and the possibility to get creative in your outdoor photography. So, uh you can find these lenses all over on the web, even go into your local old secondhand camera store and see whether you can pick up something nice and cheap a lens like this. If you look hard enough, you can get it be between 80 100 $150. And so it's a cheap alternative to get creative. So I'm gonna walk around this little lake area and take a couple of intimate shots and kind of show you um what these type of lenses can do. And it's really, really exciting stuff and it's lovely to get in and concentrate on some details and get creative using an old vintage lens. So there's my tip for the day. Hope you're all well, bye for now.