Japanexposures.com has them for 125,900yen, or around 1106.31$
46mm cap. It uses same cap as the cv 35 1.7 and cv 28 f2. All use 46mm filters/caps.
For those curious, the lens has an adjustable coma setting. You twist the rear mount. 3 is "good" as the documentation says, but you can go down to 1. This is a portrait at 1--the softest. I have since turned it back to 3. I liked 1, but subjects at mid distance get wonky. And I found it extremely difficult to focus on my a7rii, even with magnification. It's noticeably better corrected at 3, the default. All photos I posted before this post are with the setting at 3.
Just placed my order. I have been debating between getting this lens or pay a little more for the Macro Elmar. From the MTF, this lens seems to be perfect for landscape from f/4 on. Can any of the current owner confirm this? I think the 50/1.1 is not as well rounded as this 73.
@inglis: if you're into lensbaby/lomo style of lens, their pancake Apoqualia/Perar series would be perfect. Particularly, the Apoqualia series has strong, wavy field curvature stopping down, even on a Leica digital body. They're mainly for street which is not very demanding for flat field sharpness.
hiepphotog wrote:
Just placed my order. I have been debating between getting this lens or pay a little more for the Macro Elmar. From the MTF, this lens seems to be perfect for landscape from f/4 on. Can any of the current owner confirm this? I think the 50/1.1 is not as well rounded as this 73.
Nice, I ordered one last week as well. Waiting for it to ship, looks like it will be a very fun lens.
I put the optics in an Industar 69 body, but they aren't deep enough in so it has odd vignetting on APS-C. Vignettes more as the lens is stopped down. Someday I'll redo it.
hiepphotog wrote:
Just placed my order. I have been debating between getting this lens or pay a little more for the Macro Elmar. From the MTF, this lens seems to be perfect for landscape from f/4 on. Can any of the current owner confirm this? I think the 50/1.1 is not as well rounded as this 73.
@inglis@: if you're into lensbaby/lomo style of lens, their pancake Apoqualia/Perar series would be perfect. Particularly, the Apoqualia series has strong, wavy field curvature stopping down, even on a Leica digital body. They're mainly for street which is not very demanding for flat field sharpness.
Looks sunny here tomorrow--I'll try to get outside and do some infinite shots and post crops.
I assume that MS Optics will not come out with a wide-angle Sonnetar.
If that is the case, then a 35 1.4 Apoqualia might be a great addition to have with the Sonnetars.
7artisans states their 35/2 lens is a Sonnar based design. Not sure how true to Sonnar rendering it is just yet, as I received one only a day ago and have not had the chance to do much with other than check rangefinder accuracy. Just playing a bit more with it and background rendering of OOF specular highlights has a Sonnar-like look and there is double-edging to higher contrast OOF transitions...
As an aside, quality of construction at first try is quite good and it's very reasonably priced. This actually surprised me somewhat. I'd say it's comparable build quality to anything from Voigtlander or Zeiss ZM. The ability to tweak the RF cam to fine-tune camera-specific focus accuracy is a really nice touch. Both this and their 50/1.1 should have focus shift. This fine-tuning would also allow one to choose the desired working aperture with perfect RF focus. IIRC, Zeiss used to set correct RF focus at f/2.8 for the 50/1.5 so that wide open there would be a touch of front focus and f/4 would be slightly back focused but likely almost within DOF. My understanding is the ZM50/1.5 now ships with RF calibration at wide open.
I put the optics in an Industar 69 body, but they aren't deep enough in so it has odd vignetting on APS-C. Vignettes more as the lens is stopped down. Someday I'll redo it.
The lens I'd really like to convert is the 38mm Sonnar from the Contax T. MS Optics doesn't do that one though. I have a couple of the lenses.
Shawn
thanks, i was hoping for pics with the lens, but i guess i can go to flickr for that. i convert a bunch of lenses for myself (including that contax 35/3.5 from the T4 mentioned on your 35mmc link, so i would just convert it myself. seems like there might be some busted L35AFs on eBay for around $20 ...
i would really like a contax T3 lens to try, but have not been able to find one of those cheap.
Crops from an a7rii. ISO 100, -2/3 EV comp, manual focus at center and infinite. Default sharpening, and +.15 exposure, no fringing correction.
At f4, extreme corners look good, not great. At f5.6, very good, f8 is crispy. Diffraction at f11. Unless you're looking at crops in the extreme corners at 42mp, f4 is perfectly fine IMO. Midzone doesn't change much from f4-f11.
This gotta seal the deal for a lot more people on the fence right now. I don't think the Sonnetar 50 is as good. This is the shortest, lightest fast 75.
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