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p.3 #6 · p.3 #6 · Best bang for buck 24mm or 28mm old lenses for landscape. | |
Flav wrote:
I want to ask from experienced users of old manual focus lenses - hopefully used on new high resolution cameras, what is in their regards the best bang for buck manual focus 24 or 28 mm lens for landscape (or 21, why not).
I've just bought a Sony A7 with the 55/1.8 and added a rokinon 14/2.8 for ultra wide, but i'm missing a wide angle, and my budget is too limited at the moment
on the a7r... 28mm or longer is much better than 24mm, and there are a metric ton of cheap 28mm primes out there.
you want cheap... bottom of the barrel: 28mm generics can be surprising, but not the 49mm filter thread versions, nor the old 58mm filter thread versions, like soligor, unless you get lucky... i think that the other filter size for the generics is 52mm? think albinar adg, it's clean across the frame, but it still has slight vignetting at ~f10... my copy is slightly decentered.
i have three 28mm/f2.0 kiron/viv lenses, that have a 55mm filter thread... not pretty on the sides wide open, but by ~f10, they are good across the frame, probably keepers... just watch out for oily aperture blades.
the pentax-m 28mm f/3.5 is fairly sharp wide open, great lens, but it only has five aperture blades, so the bokeh can get downright ugly on rare occasions, like when you are shooting a center-focused object, with a close background... unfortunately the SMC Pentax-A 28mm f/2.8 also has five blades, so possibly all of the old pentax 28mm slr primes are the same?
i have a pristine konica hexanon 28mm f/3.5, it's contrasty and sharp, but vignettes badly wide open on the a7r... plus it's decentered.
the oly 28mm f/3.5 has a kind of similar contrasty look to that konica, so it has potential, but both of the wide oly lenses that i have are decentered, so no more oly; there are more reliable alternatives.
lately i've been evaluating a minolta celtic 28mm f/2.8; they go for cheap, and they don't have that funky five blade aperture setup.
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Aug 03, 2014 at 12:09 AM |
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