New Member Registered: April, 2013 Posts: 3 | | Review Date: January 24, 2021 | Recommended | Price: $60.00
| Rating: 9 |
| Pros: | Size, Weight, Short Throw, Sharpness | | Cons: | Price | | Sharpness: 9
Aberrations: 9
Bokeh: 7
Handling: 10
Value: 7
Camera Used: Nikon Z6
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Once described as the sharpest prime lens available in it's day, wide open at close focus beats modern fast 50's even manaully using focus peaking. Very light and portable pancake design making it the same size as a normal prime when using an adaptor on a mirrorless camera. Lovely warm tones much like Pentax designs of the period and is most like the 50mm f1.7 M series in quality but lighter and slightly slower given it's 1.8 at 40mm.
Can only see the prices of these rising now that FF mirrlorless has arrived making adaption easy.
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New Member Registered: March, 2019 Posts: 2 | | Review Date: October 24, 2019 | Recommended | Price: $45.00
| Rating: 9 |
| Pros: | size, weight, fastest aperture of f1.8, value, sharpness stopped down | | Cons: | slight loss of sharpness probably due to its small size | | Sharpness: 9
Aberrations: 9
Handling: 9
Value: 10
Camera Used: Sony a6000 and Konica TCX
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This is a lovely little lens that can be bought for a great price. It is also readily available. Image quality from f2.8 is fantastic. Even at f1.8 it is entirely usable. Size and weight is low which means the lens remains small even once an adaptor is added. Focusing is easy, both with film cameras and also mirrorless cameras using focus peaking. Colours and contrast are lovely and warm. Its pancake design means the focus ring is narrow and the design compromise probably means a slight loss of sharpness, especially wide open.
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