A Wide Angle Alternative For Your Canon: The Pentacon 29mm f/2.8 M42 Lens

www.robnunnphoto.com/ With a cheap M42/EF lens mount converter you can use old, cheap glass on your Canon dSLR.
Pentacons can be found at car-boot sales, flea markets and eBay for bargain prices, so if you see the 29mm f/2.8 snap it up.
You'll be using manual focus, and setting the aperture on the lens, but put your Canon in aperture priority mode and it'll meter automatically, changing the shutter speed for a correct exposure.
I'm not saying this is the best glass in the world, but it's great to play around with and using a prime lens (no zoom) will improve anyones photography.

[@vicpico1]

Hi Rob! I had this lens 4 yrs. ago. Very nice lens, which you could focus closer, better than, in my opinion than my Konica 28mm f/3.5. Cheap & a very good lens. Thanks for sharing.

[@MasticinaAkicta]

I am getting this one and a 55mm 1,8.. super takumar.
I really have a good feeling about all this. Old lenses manual focus, manual settings. Not as quick as those super quick focussing AF bodies obviously but for slow photography such is just fine. Not to mention METAL BODIES!

[@beteltree]

Thanks Rob for your wonderful video. I'll keep an eye out for this wide angle lens for my Canon 450D and 550D. Looking forward to shooting HD with it.

[@Geoff]

This was really helpful for me! I just bought an m42 mount elicar 35mm f/2.8 as a standard lens (really, I should have gone with a 28mm for walk-around, but not a big difference either way) and I was looking around about how to read the numerical values on the manual lenses! So, this was very informative to go over the fstop, Dof, and aperture rings! The focusing tips are worth knowing too! You have a nice collapsable lens hood there, btw! Thanks for sharing this video!

[@christopherbergner7519]

I agree with the 1.6x crop factor, a 28mm or as you have a 29mm is really a slightly wide standard sized lens for APS-C sensor cameras. These are especially important for tighter shots, like indoors too. With a 50mm lens indoors you don't get much width, because with the crop factor making it higher, it comes in as an 80mm lens's view, which is zoomed in somewhat.

[@zlymaciek]

Well, I love using m42 lens and I want to change my Kit 18-55 to some m42. Is there a good alternative with same(or better)zoom and same frame?

[@Zamsky39]

Unfortunately no. Zoom lenses were very uncommon in these days and there were no zooms starting from 18mm. I recommend You to get some 37 or 55mm manual m42 lens and see if You like it.

[@js740419]

I have this lens, and feel it's very nice.

[@Amineshoot]

hello thx for video i like can u help me wht the adaptator for Lumix gh1 using this lense

[@zatoichiable]

Is the focus long throw?

[@emilijen]

Do you have somewhere a galery with photos with this lens?

[@ThrowFence]

@beteltree
I just gotta ask, why the hell would you want it? :S why not use the kit lense??? it is wider and have more focus than this prime :S

[@BradGerrard]

I have the same lens. How much is exposure compensation do you use each time? How did it compare with your canon 28mm?
Thanks for the video.
Brad.

[@petrub27]

great video. no sample pictures

[@richklmn]

nah, you could have put up some photos too, im curious bout this lens :)

[@TheStoriesWeTell]

thanks, helpfull, I can get this lens for 7,50 euros.

[@petrub27]

The numbers written on the lens will give you the hyperfocal distance . Not very helpful if you're looking for bokeh