| Review of: Soligor Multi-coated Gold Series Auto Lens 24mm F2.5 by AntonioS on Thu August 11, 2022 | Rating: 0 | View more reviews | |
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What to say ? Well, first of all, it's an inexpensive lens, so you can't complain too much. The main problems with it are flare and chromatic aberration.
Mechanically it's very well made and smooth operation. This lens was made by SUN Optical, Japan.
But not a bad choice if you're looking for a very inexpensive lens for an APS sized sensor camera. On a small sensor it delivers a fair quality image. I would not recommend it for a full-frame camera.
First thing is to get a lens hood. It's not an option, it's mandatory.
Second thing is to relax and use it on middle apertures.
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| Review of: Leica Vario-Elmar-R 35-70mm F4 by AntonioS on Wed May 15, 2019 | Rating: 10 | View more reviews | |
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This was the first Leica zoom I had. Bought it in Vienna in pristine condition some years ago.
The main reason I decided to buy it was goes back to when I bought a Sigma SD15 camera from Sigma. This camera uses a Foveon sensor and when I bought it, it came with a Sigma 18-50 2.8 Sigma lens and besides costing $480 this lens was a lemon, horrible at the corners.
I had a Leica R6 with three primes, a Sumicron-R 50/2, an Elmarit-R 28/2.8 and an Elmar-R 90/4, and since I used them before with my EOS 5D I decided do give them a try with the SD15. The result was a big WOW ! Perfect images, extremely sharp and very pleasant rendering. Then I decided to go for a Leica Zoom.
When I was in Vienna, I went to Leicashop and asked for the best zoom they had (used). The manager came with 3 lenses, the 35-70 F3.5, the 35-70 F4 and a 28-70 F-something.
I asked him about which one he would pick for himself, he smiled and pointed to the 35-70 F4. Then I bought it.
First I used it on the 5D. This lens is much better than the 24-70 F2.8 L in definition. On the Sigma SD15 the images were amazing, on par with the Leica primes I had at that time.
The building quality can't be better, no woobing, very precise. Manual focus was very easy with Haoda custom cut focusing screens. Too bad my K3-II and K5-II don't have decent focusing screens.
This zoom is an optical marvel.
P.S.
I used a Leica-R to Canon EF adapter first, then I ordered Leitax mounts for SA and K mount. Leitax adapters are expensive, about 70 Euro each, but they are perfect and extremely high quality.
The SD15 is an APS sensor size camera. Images were absolutely sharp from center to corners, even wide open. Same with the K3-II and K5-II
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| Review of: Sigma 18-35mm F1.8 DC HSM (Art) by AntonioS on Wed May 8, 2019 | Rating: 9 | View more reviews | |
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This lens is a case of love and hate.
It's extremely sharp IF you have it properly focused.
It works reasonably well with my K5-II but awfully bad AF with my K3-II, the success ratio is something like 30% when using PDAF but works well with CDAF.
I use it mostly in manual focus, with a manual focusing screen in my K3-II what is ridiculous.
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