New Member Registered: November, 2013 Posts: 14 1 user found this helpful | Review Date: April 1, 2014 | Recommended | Price: $25.00
| Rating: 10 |
Pros: | very sharp, nearly no CAs | Cons: | wide open a few weak | Sharpness: 10
Aberrations: 10
Bokeh: 8
Handling: 9
Value: 10
Camera Used: k2,k-x
| | Very similar to CARENAR 1.8/50 (double Gauß design 6/4)
++ good colours,
++ nice bokeh
++ very few CA's wide open ,,
+++ an excellent lens, stopped down to f 5,6 - f11 extremely sharp
my item is very clear in glass, high contrast at f5,6
Better coating as SUPER CARENAR. - but both well corrected an very sharp.
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Pentaxian Registered: April, 2011 Location: Lost in translation ... Posts: 18,076 1 user found this helpful | Review Date: April 28, 2012 | Recommended | Price: $15.00
| Rating: 7 |
Pros: | Build, general sharpness | Cons: | Had to be cleaned & modified | Sharpness: 7
Aberrations: 7
Bokeh: 7
Handling: 7
Value: 7
| | Bonjour,
I bought this lens over a year ago on a LBA whim ... it had very oily blades that would seize and/or move erratically. Finally found the time to clean ... my first endeavor here and it took some time, but learned a lot.
First post cleaning tests look promising and I'll conservatively rate as a "7" across the board with the promise to test further once the bright sunny spring weather arrives ... indoors tests seem "OK" for their limited extent. Allez et à plus tard, John le Frog
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