Juha Kannisto wrote: Sonnar-7 wrote:
I begin to like it more, I’m not familiar with the notion of decentered lens, I read a bit here about it but I wondered if this one was, the smear effect seems to go further toward the center from the right then from the left.
Well, it’s all quirks.
MS-Optics Apoqualia 35mm 1.3 II Slim & Nikon Zf
How does it look if you shoot at f8 and try to maximize corner-to-corner sharpness on some cityscape shots? I think it would be easier to judge decentering based on such stopped down shots, checking if edge and corner sharpness is consistently worse on one side or the other. Wide open the lens is not going to be very sharp across most of the frame and it could be harder to judge centering from such shots.
I like to use this lens wide open for very close range (also utilizing helicoid adapter to get closer than 0.6m) but for longer distance I use it mostly stopped down.
I've enjoyed the lens quite a bit and I still keep it but later when I got Apollon 36/1.3 I liked it's bokeh rendering and ability to focus very close even more so I didn't use 35/1.3 as much afterwards. I should take it out for a spin over the New Year holidays again.
Thank you for those advices, I will try what you suggested in the upcoming days.
I bought the lens because it was available and there and it was a MS-Optics with some nice specs though, but that aside, I was not very drawn to it, the design of it, the fact that it looked so tiny and fragile. The few reviews were horrendous too.
But when I received it, I fell in love with it, it’s quite well made, the design is more ergonomic and pretty then it looks on paper and the rendering tends to be to my liking(well almost to a fault).
You really got to try a lens to have a feel of it, reviews and opinions can be so misleading sometimes.
I feel that the 36mm 1.3 is a better lens indeed but I got that one.
I will give it a go at f8 to see if there is a problem with it.
I use it with my TTArtisan 6bit adapter but it gives me some false readings, I don’t think it impacts the metering of the camera and it still gives me the green focus confirmation of the Zf.
I tried the lens on my Voigtlander close focus adapter but I have no infinity and worse, I have a lot of issues with that adapter, even with native Voigtlander lenses.
Dec 26, 2023 at 07:05 AM
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