Samuli Vahonen Offline Upload & Sell: Off
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MRosth, nice idea in bridge picture - is the sky with stars "organic" or did you photoshop it?
I got Canon FD 35mm f/2 S.S.C. with expectation to get some special effects like swirly bokeh. I'm little disappointed; it seems this lens is very good 35mm lens without anything odd. So this might be good option for someone who wants to save money - based on ~100 frames shoot lens for example has better CA-behaviour than Zeiss ZE/ZF 2/35, so for 150-200EUR this lens definetly brings great valye.
For me this really doesn't provide anything new as I have Zeiss ZE 2/35 and 1.4/35, and FE35 is also OK (with some limitations, like bokeh in complex environments).
I'm not sure what Canon did "wrong" on EF lenses; it seems rendering of FD lenses is strong with quite nice characteristics. For me EF lenses have always been just boring or bad looking. The environmental things (removing lead from glass) or something? Or AF-requiring to design acceptable DOF longer in expense of peak contrast/microcontrast? Most likely if EF lenses would have FD lens "look" I most likely would be happily shooting Canon and have never tried Zeiss, Leica, Voigtländer, etc.
I hope my samples provide some light if somebody is trying to figure out small and cheap 35mm f/2 lens. Images not processed otherwise except white balance and took exposure down 0.3-0.6 stops (I was experimenting with A7 autoexposure and it was very very good, but all the time overexposing 1/3 stop, which I didn't know at the time of shooting these)
Canon FD 35mm f/2 S.S.C. @ f/2, ISO 800 - nice structural bokeh, not boring gaussian blur, me likes...

Canon FD 35mm f/2 S.S.C. @ f/2, ISO 100 - no CA wide open even corners

Canon FD 35mm f/2 S.S.C. @ f/5.6, ISO 100 - high sharpness and no CA for landscape use

Canon FD 35mm f/2 S.S.C. @ f/2, ISO 100 - not as much "kick" as Zeiss lenses, but would take nicely local contrast enhancement (USM 15%, 40px to fullsize image)

Canon FD 35mm f/2 S.S.C. @ f/2, ISO 100 - Close up with f/2 and below f/5.6, I find bokeh good on both, but area inside DOF improves in close-ups when closing down to f/5.6 quite a lot (no floating elements etc. so close-up at f/2 can't be expected to be great)

Canon FD 35mm f/2 S.S.C. @ f/5.6, ISO 100 - see above

Canon FD 35mm f/2 S.S.C. @ f/2, ISO 100 - bokeh with structure and "texture", should have shoot this f/2.8 to make bokeh slightly more "calm"

If people have Contax G 45 and G 90 samples in full frame, I would not mind viewing them...
Samuli
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