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Archive 2017 · SLR Magic 18mm

  
 
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p.1 #1 · p.1 #1 · SLR Magic 18mm


I saw this lens on Black Friday for $479 and decided to bite.

I have not used it extensively, but wanted to post some general feedback on it.

The good:

-Extremely well built. Very solid metal and glass.
-size - it's smaller (though heavier) than the Zeiss batis 18mm. This lens is about the same size as the FE 28mm f2.
-circular 10 blade aperture. OOF areas are generally rendered quite pleasantly.
-geared focus ring
-center is very sharp, even at 2.8


the bad:

-corners not sharp at 2.8. They clean up as you stop down, but aren't great until f8 or so.
-no electric connection for exif data.
-no bag/case (at this price though, whatever)
-vignetting almost the whole way through the aperture range.
-no LR lens profile yet



























Dec 11, 2017 at 06:36 PM
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p.1 #2 · p.1 #2 · SLR Magic 18mm


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Dec 11, 2017 at 06:37 PM
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p.1 #3 · p.1 #3 · SLR Magic 18mm


Thanks for this. I haven't found too much about this lens. Are you still enjoying it after all this time?


Jul 17, 2018 at 10:14 AM





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