Senior Member Registered: June, 2015 Posts: 235 | Review Date: October 19, 2015 | Recommended | Price: $5.00
| Rating: 6 |
Pros: | Color Rendition, Handling, Bokeh | Cons: | Sharpness, slow, | Sharpness: 4
Aberrations: 6
Bokeh: 10
Handling: 10
Value: 7
Camera Used: K-5
| | A friend picked this lens up at a flea market and let me take a look at it and give it a quick cleaning and check up. From what I gathered it was sold at one photo shop in Chicago during the 70's and was mainly solid in the UK under the Rexatar name. I was unable to locate another copy from another brand to check and see who made the optics.But it is an overall neat lens with interesting focal length of 36mm instead of the traditional 28mm or 35mm all the way to the 100mm end with labeled focal lengths of 36mm 50mm 60mm 70mm 80mm and 100mm. Has very filmic color rendition when shot in JPEG with no boosting in any catagory, but is a very unsharp lens almost so that it is like a soft focus portrait lens. In order to get close to a solid sharp picture you need to shoot it at f/11 at all focal lengths. At 35mm you should only shoot at f/8 or f/11 because it is very unsharp if not. Bokeh is very nice at all apertures and renders very circle like. Handles very nicely and is very well balanced for a lens of this nature. Overall a cool little lens that looks nice on my K-5 but shall be returned soon. Info is hard to come by for this brand so its really just throwing crap at the wall and seeing what sticks. Cool Lens though.
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