What are your oldest lenses?

Inspired by the topic "What's your oldest camera?" in the Film Photography Talk section by @Maoby and because of the fact that I don't really own any (interesting) old cameras myself, I wanted to ask everyone:

What are your oldest lenses?

Because not all lenses are easily dated (and perhaps also because your third oldest lens may be the most interesting,) I kept lens in plural form intentionally, so you can choose. And if you have any pictures of the lens or taken with the lens - no matter if on film or adapted to digital - please share them here as well!

Not very old compaired to others that will follow, but just like my oldest camera (Canon Eos 1000F) it's an Canon
Canon EF 50 mm F/1.8 mk1(the original canon nifty fifty) and one of the first that were produced back than for the Eos range.
Datecode: UB0200 which means produced in 02-1987 at their Utsunomiya factory in Japan and introduced worldwide in March 1987
Bought this one after getting the Eos 1000F back in the 90s

For me the 200 f4 macro I bought in 1999 when I switched to Nikon.

It is now manual focus only I have only Z bodies. Even so as yet I have found nothing better with such a narrow angle of view.

My next oldest are the TC 17E from 2007 and the 60mm macro from 2008.

Digressing I use mainly more recent lenses as things like nano coating have much greater flare resistance and the optical quality of some Z Mount lenses is in excess of what was possible with some F Mount lenses.

Here's one of mine:

Goerz Dagor Doppel-Anastigmat III 120 mm F 6.8 (roughly around 110 years old):

Historical reve-lens by simple.joy, on Flickr

This is an image I shot with it:

Some color in winter? Nature's got you covered! by simple.joy, on Flickr

Here's another one - not quite as old with 73 years - but very interesting with its aperture mechanism:

Som Berhiot Perigraphe 90 mm f/14

Diaphragme main-ifique by simplej.joy, on Flickr

Not a fast lens, but nice and lightweight. Here's a sample shot:

Built to last by simplej.joy, on Flickr

Very good start 😍

I have only one lens that comes to mind at the moment, and she is not very old.
This is for my digital cameras.

It's the nikkor AF 180mm f/2.8 D ED (1994-2007)

Here next to my Sigma 135mm f/1.8 DG HSM ART

Nikkor AF 180mm f/2.8 D ED / Sigma 135mm f/1.8 DG HSM ART by Marc Aubry, sur Flickr

Ensorceler by Marc Aubry, sur Flickr

I have a special affection for this lens ❤️

Nikkor AF 180mm f/2.8 D
www.flickr.com/photos/maoby/albums/72157650437133724

Like many, I bought some M42s, mainly pre-1980 models. M42 is good - there being adapters available for most cameras new or old.

Asahi Lens Co (Takumar) and a couple Helios 44s (sorta copies of a Zeiss-Jena classic)

Test of Takumar 24mm

I have adapters for Sigma SA mount and micro-four-thirds.

Most notable IMHO is my 400mm Super-Takumar which becomes 800mm on micro-four-thirds.

Taking an extended look at your album I totally get why you love that lens and it shows! I'm particularly impressed by this one:

flic.kr/p/frG73h

Just excellent.

I think you might be able to take way better use than me of the next lens I'm going to show...

Very interesting - thanks a lot! A good 800 mm lens is certainly nice to have... I don't have many long vintage lenses, the longest probably being a 360 mm Tele-Xenar. I also don't have much in terms of really wide angle, because most of the enlarging/repro and macro lenses (which I mainly go for) don't cover a significant enough image circle at distance. Your Takumar 24 mm looks nice. The whole Takumar line is certainly a big blind spot for me... there seem to be great lenses there across the whole range.

Here's another (at least in my opinion) interesting and quite old lens from a lesser known manufacturer from Munich:

Friedrich Doppelanastigmat Coronar 15 cm f/3.5

I've been told it's similar to a Xenar Typ-D (can't compare that myself) and great for portraits... not that I can show many, but here's something in the vein at least:

It's just light... don't let it take your breath away! by simple.joy, on Flickr

Olympus 12-100mm f/4 was the first lens I ever bought. I got on Boxing Day in 2019 and I still use it a lot.

I have quite a few I've been unable to date, of these the Petzval style projector lens may be the oldest I think it's from the late 1800s - However there is no labelling of any sort on this, so even the manufacturer is a complete mystery.

Of those I have some sort of age information available
A contender is my Bausch & Lomb F-8 series II rapid symmetrical (roughly a 190mm/8) which dates from between 1866 & 1920.
Nearly forgot the lens on my VPK (my oldest camera) would presumably be next, but it's not available to mount on other cameras..
I suspect my Taylor Hobson series II Cooke Astigmat 6"/4.5 from around 1925 might be next, but it might be the Zeiss Novar 135/6.3 triplet from 1926 too...

Some of the lenses I have I've owned since the 1980's but I don't think any of those are older than me.

My oldest lens could be this Ross Petzval wet plate lens:

On the other hand, this Dallmeyer Rapid Landscape, which was made between 1860 to 1880, could be as old. Unfortunately, I was not able to determine its actual year.

I have an article (in Traditional Chinese) here: Dallmeyer Rapid Landscape

I have a 19 century Zeiss Planar made by B&L which could be a little bit later.

CK

Wonderful looking lens and a really fascinating article - looks like a great amount of work (and love for the matter) went into that! Thanks a lot for sharing!