Desmolicious Offline Upload & Sell: Off
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rscheffler wrote:
Is that with or without the $8 Tiffen filter?
lol. No filter as I want to see how the lens performs au naturelle. Didn't want to make excuses for that filter.
Interestingly another smart dood pointed out that the knock off 36mm Leica lens cap - which is slightly too small for the lens (when not using the lens hood) - fits perfectly if you use the 34mm filter.
Now that I've shot with this lens quite a bit in the last few days (yesterday shot several rolls of film with it including Blue Ultra ISO 3!), I will say that it is a fiddly lens to use. The only place of contact to focus is the infinity release knob - it literally is impossible to focus using anything else. This is ok most of the time but gets awkward close to and at minimum focus.
I have to set the lens to infinity to lock the focus ring so I can change the aperture. With an AE camera not such a big deal, as changes in exposure are compensated for, and with non metered body (M3, M-A etc) not a big deal either as you set exposure 'off camera' before hand anyway.
But with a manual exposure camera with built in meter (MP, M6) it does slow things down as I first make sure the focus is locked, then view the scene through the VF looking at the meter reading, adjust the aperture/shutter until I am satisfied, then focus.
None of this would be an issue if Cosina built the lens so that the aperture ring did not move with focus - ya know pretty much like every other lens..
Still totally worth it as no-one else makes a tiny 40mm, the lens optically is lovely, it is so nicely made and looks great on camera.
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