New Member Registered: November, 2013 Posts: 14 | | Review Date: July 31, 2017 | Recommended | Price: $65.00
| Rating: 9 |
| Pros: | stopped down to f8-11 really very sharp | | Cons: | CA's wide open and some flare | | Sharpness: 9
Aberrations: 7
Bokeh: 10
Handling: 9
Value: 10
Camera Used: k-x, k200, k5, K-S1, Fuji x-T100,x-e1
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Similar to Panagor and Kiron 3.8/80-200 and Makinon 3.5/80-200. Produced by KOMINE oder COSINA?
++ very good sharpness
++ very good color rendition and contrast
O/+ some flare against the sun light and some CA's wide open
++ wide open phantastic soft bokeh
inspite of visible CA's wide open ans some flare it is a good performer for those Photographers, who stop down normally to f8-11. Doing this, shootings will become very sharp.
((Even modern tele lenses need to stop down a few, because of their plastic elements thererin in order to minimize costs of production. Nevertheless they perform with high optical capabilities - because of some ED-elements.))
But this vintage lens is made of glass and metal.
8,5 points
Ps.:I've got (as teacher of digital photography at a private high school) some dozens of lenses and many analogue and digital cameras, My digital cams are fitted all together to highest sharpness, contrast and color saturation, because students don't like unsharp pictures in high magnification.
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Senior Member Registered: April, 2010 Location: Tamworth, NSW Posts: 158 | | Review Date: November 29, 2010 | Recommended | Price: $30.00
| Rating: 6 |
| Pros: | Decent IQ when stopped down, good value | | Cons: | Pretty ordinary wide open, very heavy, manual aperture only | |
This is a big solid fully manual lens. Weighing in at 990 grams and being all metal in construction you would expect a tripod mount, but there isn't one, not even enough room to fit an aftermarket one.
The lens I bought was originally M42 screw mount, but I found a dead Soligor C/D 28mm lens and removed the mount from it and swapped over to the zoom. The lens does still have to be stopped down manually before taking the photo. The aperture ring is easily gripped and nice and clicky for stopping down though.
There is 9 aperture blades and at low-mid apertures there is a funky shape to the blades which shows through on the highlights in oof areas.
Wide open the lens is pretty ordinary, quite soft and a lot of purple fringing
I took a bunch of test images.
f3.5 80mm iso80
100% Crop
f8 80mm iso80
100% Crop
f3.5 200mm iso80
100% Crop
f8 200mm iso80
100% Crop
All images above were taken on a tripod using a remote shutter cable, mirror lock-up and is a K-5
Stopped down it is a very usable lens and does well enough for 6x4 prints, probably larger for some shots. I'm glad I bought it and would recommend that if you saw one and were in the market for that range that you buy it as it will be cheap and it does alright.
couple of other images
Images above taken with *ist DS handheld
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Senior Member Registered: July, 2008 Location: montreal Posts: 136 | | Review Date: July 30, 2008 | Recommended | Price: None indicated
| Rating: 9 |
| Pros: | Sharp and good color rendition,contrast | | Cons: | heavy,need a tripod colar | |
I bought this lens nearly 2 years ago out of curiosity when i found it in a store,i did know the name of Soligor but that's it.The C/D series is for computer design , it was to compete Vivitar series 1,mine is an M42.
That lens is big ,heavy and longggg!Would need a tripod colar.
But that lens is very sharp at any focal lenght,it's as sharp as my FA135 at 135mm,as sharp as my M-200mm at 200mm.I like it's contrast and color cast also.
At f/3.5 it has a strange gosthing effect that i saw in my Viewfinder so i never use it at that f/stop,but from f/4.0 it's plenty sharp.I tried it at 200mm at f/4 with my pentax TC 1.4X-S and is certainly sharp for an 8X10 enlargement!
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