My Favorite Vintage Lenses for Creative Photography

Derrick Story
5 min readJul 13, 2022

If you don’t think that a 30-year-old Zeiss lens on your mirrorless camera will add a dash of magic to your images, then, you probably haven’t tried it. I’m hoping to change that. And I would go so far as to say that vintage optics will affect your entire creative imaging process.

Here’s what happens. First, the optics are designed differently than what we buy today. The high…

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