I was wondering if Cosina had originally been thinking about making a more compact and slower version of the CV 35 f/2 APO, similar to what they did with the CV 50 f/3.5 APO, and eventually ended up designing the ultra compact 35 f/3.5 Color-Skopar instead. Honestly, I consider this Color Skopar to be an APO lens in terms of color-error correction. In the images I took with it, even in high contrast lighting, I only noticed slight traces of axial CA and that's analyzing them at pixel level.
Fred Miranda wrote:
I was wondering if Cosina had originally been thinking about making a more compact and slower version of the CV 35 f/2 APO, similar to what they did with the CV 50 f/3.5 APO, and eventually ended up designing the ultra compact 35 f/3.5 Color-Skopar instead. Honestly, I consider this Color Skopar to be an APO lens in terms of color-error correction. In the images I took with it, even in high contrast lighting, I only noticed slight traces of axial CA and that's analyzing them at pixel level.
Don't you love it when the little, slower, less expensive lenses give you aspects of performance you weren't expecting?
Fred Miranda wrote:
I was wondering if Cosina had originally been thinking about making a more compact and slower version of the CV 35 f/2 APO, similar to what they did with the CV 50 f/3.5 APO, and eventually ended up designing the ultra compact 35 f/3.5 Color-Skopar instead. Honestly, I consider this Color Skopar to be an APO lens in terms of color-error correction. In the images I took with it, even in high contrast lighting, I only noticed slight traces of axial CA and that's analyzing them at pixel level.
And instead they made a Mark II that is LESS compact, at least for Nikon
Would I be insane to sell my 35/1.4 GM lens and instead pick up one of these? I find increasingly I'm leaving the GM home because I just don't care to lug it around. I have some manual focus lenses, so not really afraid of that. I have the VC 40/1.2, but honestly I never shoot at that aperture anyway. I like the idea of a lens smaller than the GM, but solidly sharp wide open at F2.
goo0h wrote:
Would I be insane to sell my 35/1.4 GM lens and instead pick up one of these? I find increasingly I'm leaving the GM home because I just don't care to lug it around. I have some manual focus lenses, so not really afraid of that. I have the VC 40/1.2, but honestly I never shoot at that aperture anyway. I like the idea of a lens smaller than the GM, but solidly sharp wide open at F2.
I ditched the 40/1.2 for the same reason...I found I was having to stop it down to 2-2.8 to rid it of the bulk of nasties that come with it if I absolutely didn't require the atmospherics 1.2 provides...why not carry a much "better" APO that bests it even wide open?
I don't think I'd sell off the GM, but I'd for sure just pick up a used APO if it interests you. Sometimes you want AF.
RoamingScott wrote:
I ditched the 40/1.2 for the same reason...I found I was having to stop it down to 2-2.8 to rid it of the bulk of nasties that come with it if I absolutely didn't require the atmospherics 1.2 provides...why not carry a much "better" APO that bests it even wide open?
I don't think I'd sell off the GM, but I'd for sure just pick up a used APO if it interests you. Sometimes you want AF.
+1 with Scott here.
I used to own the CV 40/1.2 but could never warm up to it. I owned it alongside the CV 35 APO and found that lens to be so remarkable that I finally sold the 40. I think its important to have an AF near that FL (35-50) so I'd keep the GM for a while until you've had the APO in hand and played with it for a while. Besides its big brother, the CV 65, the 35 is one of my favorite lenses.
