But... how do you turn the aperture ring? And in these pics taken from JCH, the red dot - which I assume indicates aperture selected - is wildly off:
The lens comes with a tiny hood, which you normally leave attached all the time, and you can twist the hood to turn the aperture ring. Otherwise you have to use your fingernail.
The aperture is smooth (declicked). Not sure why it's so far from the 1.7 mark though; my 28/2 doesn't do that. Maybe that's a prototype version; the production lens won't be available until July 1.
I have a few MS-Optics lenses where the aperture can be "opened further" than the wide-open aperture mark on the lens but the blades are already fully out-of-sight when reaching the wide-open mark so it's just extra leeway that doesn't make a real difference. In real use with those when I want to shoot wide open I can either park the aperture exactly on the wide-open mark or go further and in both cases the blades are entirely out of the way. My 28/2-II is like that too, but the leeway on that is not as extensive as shown in these 28/1.7 product images though.
I think these 2 samples that are shown at JCH are not prototypes but from the regular production (although possibly delivered early to JCH for product demo purposes) as any prototypes that MS-Optics make usually have serial number 0 or something different from the regular lenses but these are Silver #21 and Black #21.
Jun 29, 2023 at 08:43 PM
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