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p.1 #1 · p.1 #1 · Which 24-28mm landscape/city A7?

Considering the recent Sony 28mm autofocus for the A7 but looking for something abit wider around the same price if possible. Considering the Minolta 24mm and a few others. Anyone have any recommendations?

Aug 03, 2015 at 11:57 AM

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p.1 #2 · p.1 #2 · Which 24-28mm landscape/city A7?

I am happy with the Olympus OM 24/2.8. Picked mine up here on FM in mint condition for well under $200 US. More contrast, punchier colors than my OM 21/3.5, 50/3.5 or 100/2.8 (but similar susceptibility to flare). I did a shootout vs. a Nikon 24/2.8 AiS and I preferred the OM (sharper edge to edge, took f/11 on the Nikon to match the OM at f/5.6).

Aug 03, 2015 at 12:12 PM

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p.1 #3 · p.1 #3 · Which 24-28mm landscape/city A7?

I use the Canon FD 24mm f/2.8. It's a very nice lens. Corners aren't super sharp, but it gets sharp to the edges stopped down and is very sharp in the center. Nice contrast and color, and it's pretty small and not very expensive.

A recent shot:
http://www.jordansteele.com/2015/columbus_wildflowers.jpg

Aug 03, 2015 at 01:09 PM

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p.1 #4 · p.1 #4 · Which 24-28mm landscape/city A7?

If you don't mind the size, the Samyang 24mm 1.4 is an excellent lens. Performance across the frame is very even and the corners do reach excellent levels.

Aug 03, 2015 at 01:33 PM

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p.1 #5 · p.1 #5 · Which 24-28mm landscape/city A7?

There are many good 24-28 mm MF lenses out there, some of them were described recently in this thread:

https://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/1373312

I personally like the Canon 28/2.8 FD lens a lot, too. My preference is still an older lens which is the Exakta 28/2.8 lens - very light, small, but powerful.

Aug 03, 2015 at 01:38 PM

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p.1 #6 · p.1 #6 · Which 24-28mm landscape/city A7?

Thanks. Leaning towards the Minolta MD 24 or FD 24. I've read many threads about this but mostly looking for something light, great corner to corner sharpness and minimal distortion. Maybe the Sony 28 is the way to go but not happy with the distortion from what I've read.

Aug 03, 2015 at 02:50 PM

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p.1 #7 · p.1 #7 · Which 24-28mm landscape/city A7?

I love the OM ergonomics. The 28/3.5 is good if you don't mind single coated. I don't know how to do it, but you can fix distortion in pp.

Some of the old Tamron zooms are nice at 28mm. Even the plastic 28-70 seemed good on a 5D at 28. Light, and you have the rest of the zoom if needed. Corners aren't good at70mm, got good stuff anyway

Aug 03, 2015 at 03:18 PM

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p.1 #8 · p.1 #8 · Which 24-28mm landscape/city A7?

I suspect the answer depends on which adapter(s) you have. Each of the MD, OM and FD have individual strengths. The OMs are very small and very crisp, the MD has the great Minolta colour. I own both of the 24/2.8s. Don't know about the FD I'm afraid. I think you'd best decide which range is best for you in general and go with that. (I've included a link below to a photozone survey which covers a lot of these old lenses. Very subjective, of course, but useful nevertheless) After all, this pick-and-mix choice we have today was never open to us in the old days when we chose an SLR manufacturer and went with its system lenses, for better or worse. My choice is OM for primes, particularly at the wide end, since the MD 20mm is no star while the OM 21/3.5 is, and Minolta MD for zooms and teles, the 35-70/3.5 macro and 135/2.8 MD I being remarkable. Going off topic here, but if you want to be truly eclectic, the FD 80-200/4 L is also exemplary, as is the Voigtlander 180/4 APO Lanthar SL which came in a number of mounts. Additionally, a beauty of these legacy lenses is that some of them are truly fabulous, yet many if not most can be bought in real terms (inflation adjusted) for peanuts by comparison with their original cost so it's no great financial burden to build up a collection, as I have done. The problem lies in finding time to use them all.

http://www.photozone.de/active/survey/querylens.jsp

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Aug 03, 2015 at 03:53 PM

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p.1 #9 · p.1 #9 · Which 24-28mm landscape/city A7?

Thanks for the link. Looks like the Nikkor AI-S 24mm f/2 performs rather well. I already have a nikon adapter for my stellar 105 2.5 so maybe I'll go with that.

Aug 03, 2015 at 04:08 PM

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p.1 #10 · p.1 #10 · Which 24-28mm landscape/city A7?

My choice is the SMC Pentax 28mm f/3.5 K. This isn't the Takumar or later M version.

-Tim

Aug 03, 2015 at 04:20 PM

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p.1 #11 · p.1 #11 · Which 24-28mm landscape/city A7?

rioni wrote:
Thanks for the link. Looks like the Nikkor AI-S 24mm f/2 performs rather well. I already have a nikon adapter for my stellar 105 2.5 so maybe I'll go with that.

Careful - I have owned two copies of that lens and although fine on film, the corners are very, very poor wide open on digital - which is why you buy an f2 in the first place, isn't it?

Aug 03, 2015 at 09:32 PM

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p.1 #12 · p.1 #12 · Which 24-28mm landscape/city A7?

Pentax K28/3.5 is really good.
Especially for the money.

Constructing the urban future by jenkwang, on Flickr

Full sized sample in my Flickr

Aug 04, 2015 at 05:40 PM

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p.1 #13 · p.1 #13 · Which 24-28mm landscape/city A7?

The new 28/2 is nice and compact. Smaller than my contax 28/2.8.

Aug 06, 2015 at 02:02 PM

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p.1 #14 · p.1 #14 · Which 24-28mm landscape/city A7?

I ended up going with the new 28 and will see how that works out. Anyone happen to have the fisheye "addon" for it? Was thinking about picking up a cheap fisheye as well but maybe this would work better if the iq isn't bad. Hard to find reviews on it.

Aug 06, 2015 at 05:32 PM

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p.1 #15 · p.1 #15 · Which 24-28mm landscape/city A7?

rioni wrote:
I ended up going with the new 28 and will see how that works out. Anyone happen to have the fisheye "addon" for it? Was thinking about picking up a cheap fisheye as well but maybe this would work better if the iq isn't bad. Hard to find reviews on it.

I don't have it and don't plan on it, though I do intend to get the UWA adapter at some point.

I did see some photos taken with the fisheye adapter on this Flickr group:

https://www.flickr.com/groups/sonysel28f20/

For some reason, there are three Sony FE 28mm f/2 groups on Flickr.

Aug 07, 2015 at 10:02 AM

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p.1 #16 · p.1 #16 · Which 24-28mm landscape/city A7?

I haven't seen Leica R in the posts. One of the best ever 28mm or 24mm for Sony

Aug 07, 2015 at 10:14 AM

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p.1 #17 · p.1 #17 · Which 24-28mm landscape/city A7?

Herbc wrote:
I haven't seen Leica R in the posts. One of the best ever 28mm or 24mm for Sony

These were all taken with my tripod mounted Leica R 28mm f2.8 Elmarit V2 and my Sony A7r all tripod mounted either to the camera L bracket or to the Novoflex ASTAT rotating collar attached to my Novoflex Leica R to NEX adapter. The last image also used a Singh-Ray Combo Lighter Brighter Warm Polarizing Filter with a Color intensifier built in to the filter.

Rich

Aug 07, 2015 at 11:38 AM


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