Does anyone have tips, leads regarding buying vintage lenses (I might know someone in Lebanon who has some)?
They are picking up in value, with adapters making it possible to fit any of them to newer digital mirrorless cameras. Also it's a reaction to manufacturers going crazy with electronics, variable ratio "fly by wire" focus, plastics, obsession with sharpness, and software distortion correction.
Basically new lenses are all about beating competitors on sharpness graphs and on focus speed (by a few milliseconds), all at the expense of experience and character. Isn't photography supposed to be an art?
Anyway if you have any of these old lenses in a good state (ie no weird alien life-forms growing inside), then you can make some money reselling them.
I am looking for the Pentax asahi 28mm 2.8, just in case! The ones I found are quite expensive for an old lens:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Pentax-Asahi-28mm-f-2-8-Prime-Lens-for-MFT-Micro-Four-Thirds-Olympus-Panasonic/281944749906?_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20140122125356%26meid%3D7b94ff2591cd420c97258be975650942%26pid%3D100005%26rk%3D3%26rkt%3D6%26sd%3D191816807273