Honestly, it's very good advice... but I've always been one to try to get prepared right off the bat, it's a bad habit I have. It's a massive headache and very time consuming at the start.
I like to put in the work in the beginning to make life a little easier later on, with less to have to think about. Even if I need to make (hopefully only) slight adjustments.
It drives the people around me mad as it's a lot of details when you're starting from almost scratch.
The Simera 28mm I think beats out the 28mm nokton for me...and it's nothing to do with corner sharpness or midframe sharpness - even though I did check that stuff when trying to make a decision between the two, and was surprised with the Thypoch mid-frame being better than the Nokton native e-mount at 2-8m in my own testing.
I'm not really asking about that here other than advice about PCX filters, I'm more interested just generally what people are liking these days for 35mm after using this one.
I love the lenses that I've gotten so far and think I've done a reasonably good job getting set up for some good variety, different usecases, of focal lengths I'd actually use 28-50 for the most part.
The only one I think I should lose is the Sigma 50mm f2 dg dn. I just enjoy using the 50mm f2 apo lanthar more for the same purpose and I don't love sigma's bokeh rendering (smooth but I find it distracting for a weird reason when it's a significant part of the frame) + it's not weather sealed for long-term durability. If I need AF I have the viltrox f2 air, by the time that fails, they might actually put weather sealing in their compact(ish) f2 lens.
On the Simera - the overall look of the Simera I prefer it to the Nokton. It's cleaner. It's just hard to let go of the nokton. It was a good price and I like the more crunchy look sometimes:
Honestly, my favourite 28mm I think is the x100vi with the WCL adaptor, and the image iq can be summed up as generally dogshite :
But I'm just missing something fun and fast around 35mm. And a different look with the zeiss is making sense to me despite the size. I don't have anything like that. It's going to be different to my other lenses. And it won't make me regret taking out a 35mm for a change... I don't think.
I think it's the last piece of getting setup for me. --- And the holiday is coming next, I definitely need it. I'll follow your advice, take one or two lenses and just shoot with one a day and experiment.
But this one is calling to me. It's just the enthusiasm people had seems to have mostly dried up. I'm wondering if they sold or held onto it. Or they just scatterred to different lenses elsewhere and are happier with where they landed.
This would be the most expensive one for me, figured it wouldn't hurt to check in with the seasoned shooters.
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