New Member Registered: February, 2019 Posts: 15 | | Review Date: February 8, 2019 | Not Recommended | Price: $20.00
| Rating: 8 |
| Pros: | Engineering | | Cons: | limited good optical range | | Sharpness: 7
Aberrations: 7
Bokeh: 6
Handling: 10
Value: 9
Camera Used: ME Super Sony full frame digital
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Mine had a Pentax bayonet mount. It's heavy, wide, and metal with very heavy glass and it feels like a magnificent piece of engineering; which it is. Everything has smooth and easy function of all moving parts makes this a very comfortable focussing and adjusting lens across the focal and zoom range. Beautiful multi-coating on the glass. The promised excellent focal range is impressive. But it does not deliver equally.
The actual focal range manages good-to-very good images at around 50mm to 70/80mm in terms of sharpness, colour resolution, warmth and aberration at f5.6 and f8. You can get some lovely fuzzy atmospheric images outside of that range; many of which can look really nostalgic. I could only realistically manage sharp images at around 50mm to 70mm but outside of that range imaging dropped off. Macro function is very good.
It's often a cheaply sold secondhand lens, and that's fair. Don't pay more than $15-25 for this as it's just not worth it.
Probably best for folks starting in film photography who want to learn without lugging heaps of cumbersome lenses around.
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