Bought a bunch of used Nikon film lenses to use on my new digital SLR. Results have been good so far. Nikon 70-210mm, Tamron 24-70mm, Rokinon 28mm, Sigma 24-50mm. Two of these were taken with the first UWA lens I have owned, Tokina 11-16 II. Used peoples Sigma 10-20mm in previous years, hated it and after using the Tokina it definitely blows the Sigma out of the water.


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Four bonus shots of some disused machines located in a closed part in an active machine shop that I photographed when when working on this companies brochure.





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Great Set! That Tokina is no joke, held on to one for as long as I could

Good stuff!

Awesome work.

OH man! That place is an urbex dream!!! I'd love to see a spot like that some day but until then these are awesome shots. Thanks for sharing.

Nice shots! Old lenses can be awesome. I've got a bunch of them and use them all the time, but I swear, I use my Tokina 11-16 more than anything else.

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Nice shots dude

Excellent work, as always. Nice to hear about that Tokina, I should look into acquiring one. Sometimes my 20mm just isn't wide enough.

Thank you everyone!

Post by Der_Krampus Excellent work, as always. Nice to hear about that Tokina, I should look into acquiring one. Sometimes my 20mm just isn't wide enough.

Posted by Punchy Nice shots! Old lenses can be awesome. I've got a bunch of them and use them all the time, but I swear, I use my Tokina 11-16 more than anything else.

#1 & #6 were with the Tokina 11-16.


Thank you. I prefer older lenses for a few reasons- They're cheap, they have good manual focus rings (I HATE autofocus) and manual aperture rings. You can't beat the metal build quality and durability. Also, I believe the optical quality of these lenses are superior to the majority of decent and relatively high end modern lenses. Final reason for me is that since I shoot lots of film, I can use all the same lenses on my Nikon dSLR and Nikon 35mm SLR.

The 11-16 is the only post 1998 lens I own. I needed it for business stuff and it's been really good in the couple times I have used it. I don't particularly like to shoot wide angle for abandoned stuff anymore as I just feel it's too wide. The edge to edge sharpness and minimal distortion on the 11-16 is amazing though.

I never get tired of shots like #1 no matter how many times I see them.

love these. love you.

I am really digging this set! The contrast between the well kept, almost not even abandoned looking buildings in 2-4 and the boarded up overgrown buildings in 5-8 is awesome! #6 is by far my favorite, I just love the looks of this building combined with the extreme overgrowth. Also I spy a smoke stack in the background. very cool shot!!