New Member Registered: November, 2013 Posts: 14
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| | Review Date: August 24, 2015 | Recommended | Price: $15.00
| Rating: 9 |
| Pros: | excellent sharpness | | Cons: | small visible CA's, some few flare wide open | | Sharpness: 10
Aberrations: 9
Bokeh: 8
Handling: 8
Value: 9
Camera Used: k-5, k-S1, k200 kx, fuji x-e1, X-T100
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O/+ against the light some few flare and some CA's wide open, both disappearing nearly totally with f 4
+++ sharpness from f5.6 to 8 excellent because of 6/4 element construction
+/++ very small CA's wide open, disappearing if stopped down a few
++ nice color rendition
++ very nice bokeh wde open
++ high contrast, stopped down to f4 - 11
an excellent performer at very low costs
Highly recommended with 9 points
Cosina has produced yet for so many famous professional brands, so that their lenses are really of high quality. My favorite is Cosinon 3.5/100 macro for 50 e with similar excellent results - an absolutely underrated macro lens because of plastic housing, but pretty sharp.
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Junior Member Registered: January, 2013 Posts: 28
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| | Review Date: June 20, 2013 | Recommended | Price: $10.00
| Rating: 9 |
| Pros: | Amazing Bokeh! Pretty sharp and excellent build quality! | | Cons: | Has CA issues wide open. | | Sharpness: 8
Aberrations: 7
Bokeh: 10
Handling: 10
Value: 10
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This was my first vintage prime, picked it up along with a STL 1000 body for $25 shipped. (I've seen the lens sell by itself for $5-10 on ebay)
Cosina, the most underrated camera manufacture out there! They make bloody Carl Zeiss and Leica Voigtlander lenses for crying out loud but nobody knows!
They also made lenses and bodies for other manufactures like Nikon, Canon, Epson and Vivitar, yet they received no credit.
Onto the lens, this one is the older single coated M42 mount version. (not to be confused with the multi coated K mount version)
Pretty fast at F1.7, really awesome bokeh! It will even swirl it under the right conditions.
I was offered $200 once for this lens and turned it down(I should have taken it because copies of this pop up all the time on ebay)
It's decently sharp at f/1.7, but really sharp at 2.8.
Suffers from chromatic aberrations when shooting in direct sunlight(fixable in post), by F/4 it's mostly all gone.
Aperture is only rounded wide open, by 2.8 the six sides are noticeable.
Build quality is really similar to the modern Voigtlanders lenses they make for the Leica system, the numbers and focus ring look identical on some lenses!
Awesome feel and very nicely weighted
Great starter lens if you want to get into manual focus primes, I'm glad it was my first!
NOTE: lens was tested on a crop digital body(Canon 10D), have no clue how the edges perform on a full frame or on film.
UPDATE: since this review was written I have used it on a 7D and it performed just as nice, I also used it on a full frame 35mm EOS film body. It's even more stunning when used on full frame!
Did run into a problem, the mirror hit it when used at infinity. Not enough to make a big issue but it does hit it, I rarely ever use a 50mm at infinity so this was not a huge problem for me. (literally only used my lens at infinity once this whole entire year to give you a clue)
1.7 samples
Rocky by AlexxxCorona, on Flickr
Gigi by AlexxxCorona, on Flickr
Untitled by AlexxxCorona, on Flickr
Jonny Sniper by AlexxxCorona, on Flickr
With a Vivitar M42 2x teleconverter(still wide open):
Vivitar 2X1 test shot by AlexxxCorona, on Flickr
Reversed for macro at F8/F16(cant remember exactly):
Spider by AlexxxCorona, on Flickr
Full flick set with this lens:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexcorona/sets/72157630767519634/
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