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Attila
Joined: 24 Feb 2007 Posts: 57830 Location: Hungary
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Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2014 8:14 pm Post subject: Konica 35mm f2.0 |
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Attila wrote:
Konica Hexanon 35mm f2.0 EE AE all metal black finish, several shoots are wide open , visible well, a few stop down to f5.6
Great Manfrotto ballhead is present from member Nikos, thank you!!
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Oldhand
Joined: 01 Apr 2013 Posts: 6006 Location: Mid North Coast NSW - Australia
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Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2014 10:25 pm Post subject: |
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Oldhand wrote:
Results are very pleasing.
To be expected from Konica I suppose.
Sounds like a rare lens.
I really like the camera/lens supporting frame on the tripod.
Very good idea.
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Attila
Joined: 24 Feb 2007 Posts: 57830 Location: Hungary
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Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 1:52 am Post subject: |
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Attila wrote:
Pretty nice lens as all Hexanons, tripod support is new to me, I did receive it today, very pleasant and important tool to me, I did try today at first time. Now I can use many lenses what I could use only handheld before. _________________ -------------------------------
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Sony NEX-7 Carl Zeiss Planar 85mm f1.4, Minolta MD 35mm f1.8, Konica 135mm f2.5, Minolta MD 50mm f1.2, Minolta MD 250mm f5.6, Carl Zeiss Sonnar 180mm f2.8
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memetph
Joined: 01 Dec 2013 Posts: 942 Location: Poland
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Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 4:45 am Post subject: |
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memetph wrote:
Does it feel safe and solid? |
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Attila
Joined: 24 Feb 2007 Posts: 57830 Location: Hungary
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Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 8:47 am Post subject: |
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Attila wrote:
yes,absolutely. _________________ -------------------------------
Items on sale on Ebay
Sony NEX-7 Carl Zeiss Planar 85mm f1.4, Minolta MD 35mm f1.8, Konica 135mm f2.5, Minolta MD 50mm f1.2, Minolta MD 250mm f5.6, Carl Zeiss Sonnar 180mm f2.8
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kds315*
Joined: 12 Mar 2008 Posts: 16472 Location: Weinheim, Germany
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Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 7:28 pm Post subject: |
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kds315* wrote:
very good performance!! _________________ Klaus - Admin
"S'il vient a point, me souviendra" [Thomas Bohier (1460-1523)]
http://www.macrolenses.de for macro and special lens info
http://www.pbase.com/kds315/uv_photos for UV Images and lens/filter info
https://www.flickr.com/photos/kds315/albums my albums using various lenses
http://photographyoftheinvisibleworld.blogspot.com/ my UV BLOG
http://www.travelmeetsfood.com/blog Food + Travel BLOG
https://galeriafotografia.com Architecture + Drone photography
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X80QF f3.2/80mm
Hypergon f11/26mm
ELCAN UV f5.6/52mm
Zeiss UV-Planar f4/60mm
Zeiss UV-Planar f2/62mm
Lomo Уфар-12 f2.5/41mm
Lomo Зуфар-2 f4.0/350mm
Lomo ZIKAR-1A f1.2/100mm
Nikon UV Nikkor f4.5/105mm
Zeiss UV-Sonnar f4.3/105mm
CERCO UV-VIS-NIR f1.8/45mm
CERCO UV-VIS-NIR f4.1/94mm
CERCO UV-VIS-NIR f2.8/100mm
Steinheil Quarzobjektiv f1.8/50mm
Pentax Quartz Takumar f3.5/85mm
Carl Zeiss Jena UV-Objektiv f4/60mm
NYE OPTICAL Lyman-Alpha II f1.1/90mm
NYE OPTICAL Lyman-Alpha I f2.8/200mm
COASTAL OPTICS f4/60mm UV-VIS-IR Apo
COASTAL OPTICS f4.5/105mm UV-Micro-Apo
Pentax Ultra-Achromatic Takumar f4.5/85mm
Pentax Ultra-Achromatic Takumar f5.6/300mm
Rodenstock UV-Rodagon f5.6/60mm + 105mm + 150mm
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jamaeolus
Joined: 19 Mar 2014 Posts: 2908 Location: Eugene
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Posted: Wed May 25, 2022 9:10 pm Post subject: |
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jamaeolus wrote:
Had my copy out for a session with one of my bonsai azaleas 2hich are happily blooming right now.
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iangreenhalgh1
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Posted: Wed May 25, 2022 10:25 pm Post subject: |
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iangreenhalgh1 wrote:
Nice. I shot this rather large Azalea outside the local supermarket with a Fujinon-TV 1.7/35, for comparison:
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kymarto
Joined: 30 Nov 2016 Posts: 405 Location: Portland, OR and Milan, Italy
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Posted: Thu May 26, 2022 4:41 am Post subject: |
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kymarto wrote:
NB: Sometimes I am an idiot. The lens described below is an Olympus Zuiko 35mm f2 from a fixed rangefinder, which I misidentified as a Hexanon. Sorry. I have fixed the text immediately following this note to correct that.
I came across an old Olympus wide rangefinder camera in Japan some years ago, with a 35mm f2 Zuiko. I adapted it. A few pix wide open. And YES, for those who keep track of such things, they are post processed to my taste. Some nature shots, and some more at a conference in China with former Premier Wen Jiabao
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jamaeolus
Joined: 19 Mar 2014 Posts: 2908 Location: Eugene
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jamaeolus wrote:
_________________ photos are moments frozen in time |
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vivaldibow
Joined: 23 Jun 2018 Posts: 835
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Posted: Fri May 27, 2022 12:09 am Post subject: |
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vivaldibow wrote:
kymarto wrote: |
NB: Sometimes I am an idiot. The lens described below is an Olympus Zuiko 35mm f2 from a fixed rangefinder, which I misidentified as a Hexanon. Sorry. I have fixed the text immediately following this note to correct that.
I came across an old Olympus wide rangefinder camera in Japan some years ago, with a 35mm f2 Zuiko. I adapted it. A few pix wide open. And YES, for those who keep track of such things, they are post processed to my taste. Some nature shots, and some more at a conference in China with former Premier Wen Jiabao
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Wow, you must a famous reporter to be invited to the conference. I see the current Premier Li. |
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kymarto
Joined: 30 Nov 2016 Posts: 405 Location: Portland, OR and Milan, Italy
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Posted: Fri May 27, 2022 12:13 am Post subject: |
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kymarto wrote:
vivaldibow wrote: |
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NB: Sometimes I am an idiot. The lens described below is an Olympus Zuiko 35mm f2 from a fixed rangefinder, which I misidentified as a Hexanon. Sorry. I have fixed the text immediately following this note to correct that.
I came across an old Olympus wide rangefinder camera in Japan some years ago, with a 35mm f2 Zuiko. I adapted it. A few pix wide open. And YES, for those who keep track of such things, they are post processed to my taste. Some nature shots, and some more at a conference in China with former Premier Wen Jiabao
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Wow, you must a famous reporter to be invited to the conference. I see the current Premier Li. |
I was a cameraman in PRC for 10 years. This was just an economic conference or something. Very boring, so I had my still camera along. Usually with dignitaries no time to play with vintage lenses. _________________ Vintage lens aficionado |
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Manichaean
Joined: 03 Oct 2013 Posts: 68
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Posted: Sat May 28, 2022 12:05 pm Post subject: |
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Manichaean wrote:
I also have this lens. In my impression, it is one of the sharpest fast 35mm that I have. Pity is is rare and rather expensive ( |
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stevemark
Joined: 29 Apr 2011 Posts: 3747 Location: Switzerland
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Posted: Tue May 31, 2022 8:04 pm Post subject: |
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stevemark wrote:
Manichaean wrote: |
I also have this lens. In my impression, it is one of the sharpest fast 35mm that I have. Pity is is rare and rather expensive ( |
In my experience - landscape motives at infinity - it is one of the worst vintage 2/35mm I have. I have published those tests earlier here on mflenses ...
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iangreenhalgh1
Joined: 18 Mar 2011 Posts: 15685
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Posted: Tue May 31, 2022 9:20 pm Post subject: |
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iangreenhalgh1 wrote:
But you look at the corners with the aperture wide open, so your tests are meaningless.... _________________ I don't care who designed it, who made it or what country it comes from - I just enjoy using it! |
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Manichaean
Joined: 03 Oct 2013 Posts: 68
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Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2022 12:22 pm Post subject: |
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Manichaean wrote:
stevemark wrote: |
In my experience - landscape motives at infinity - it is one of the worst vintage 2/35mm I have. I have published those tests earlier here on mflenses ...
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I shoot portraits indoors with it. May be that is why our impressions differ. Also, sample variation may be the case. |
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Gerald
Joined: 25 Mar 2014 Posts: 1196 Location: Brazil
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Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2022 3:11 pm Post subject: |
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Gerald wrote:
Close your eyes to all the shortcomings of a lens and it will look perfect for you! So, if you're a less demanding photographer, you'll be a happy person, but you should know that's not how most lenses are designed.
Lens designers are highly knowledgeable people who use scientific methods to measure the performance of a lens. They pay special attention to performance at the corners and with full opening. Much of the cost of a lens comes precisely from the effort to improve the performance of a lens at the corners and edges when the lens is wide open.
In conclusion, pay attention to the performance of a lens at the corners and aperture wide open and you will know whether that particular lens is exceptional or mediocre. _________________ If raindrops were perfect lenses, the rainbow did not exist. |
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D1N0
Joined: 07 Aug 2012 Posts: 2483
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Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2022 3:28 pm Post subject: |
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D1N0 wrote:
Gerald wrote: |
Close your eyes to all the shortcomings of a lens and it will look perfect for you! So, if you're a less demanding photographer, you'll be a happy person, but you should know that's not how most lenses are designed.
Lens designers are highly knowledgeable people who use scientific methods to measure the performance of a lens. They pay special attention to performance at the corners and with full opening. Much of the cost of a lens comes precisely from the effort to improve the performance of a lens at the corners and edges when the lens is wide open.
In conclusion, pay attention to the performance of a lens at the corners and aperture wide open and you will know whether that particular lens is exceptional or mediocre. |
A lens might be exceptionally boring with poor contrast and still have sharp corners and thus it is the best lens. It doesn't matter what you think. A far smarter person than you designed it so whatever you think it's wrong. You also may only shoot RAW and SOOC otherwise you are not a photographer. _________________ pentaxian |
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Doc Sharptail
Joined: 23 Nov 2020 Posts: 975 Location: Winnipeg Canada
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Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2022 3:47 pm Post subject: |
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Doc Sharptail wrote:
D1N0 wrote: |
Gerald wrote: |
Close your eyes to all the shortcomings of a lens and it will look perfect for you! So, if you're a less demanding photographer, you'll be a happy person, but you should know that's not how most lenses are designed.
Lens designers are highly knowledgeable people who use scientific methods to measure the performance of a lens. They pay special attention to performance at the corners and with full opening. Much of the cost of a lens comes precisely from the effort to improve the performance of a lens at the corners and edges when the lens is wide open.
In conclusion, pay attention to the performance of a lens at the corners and aperture wide open and you will know whether that particular lens is exceptional or mediocre. |
A lens might be exceptionally boring with poor contrast and still have sharp corners and thus it is the best lens. It doesn't matter what you think. A far smarter person than you designed it so whatever you think it's wrong. You also may only shoot RAW and SOOC otherwise you are not a photographer. |
Strange discussion, and not what most of us are here for.
Place gets a bit crabby at times.
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D-810, F2, FTN.
35mm f2 O.C. nikkor
50 f2 H nikkor, 50 f 1.4 AI-s, 135 f3.5 Q,
50 f2 K nikkor 2x, 28-85mm f3.5-4.5 A/I-s, 35-105 3.5-4.5 A/I-s, 200mm f4 Micro A/I, partial list.
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iangreenhalgh1
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Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2022 4:16 pm Post subject: |
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iangreenhalgh1 wrote:
If all that mattered in photography was the quality of the image a lens projected on the peripheral of it's coverage then this website needn't exist.
Photography is all about aesthetics, not minute technical details that are scarcely relevant to anyone. _________________ I don't care who designed it, who made it or what country it comes from - I just enjoy using it! |
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Gerald
Joined: 25 Mar 2014 Posts: 1196 Location: Brazil
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Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2022 5:32 pm Post subject: |
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Gerald wrote:
Sorry to say, but photographic lenses are not designed by photographers. A photographic lens is the result of the work of engineers, mathematicians and scientists. The Double-Gauss lens was the brainchild of Carl Friedrich Gauss, the Prince of Mathematics. The Petzal lens was the result of the work of Hungarian mathematician Joseph Petzal. And so on...
The main objective of a lens designer is to reduce aberrations as much as possible in order to obtain the most perfect image possible. That goal hasn't changed since man discovered, centuries ago, that a piece of glass can form an image of the real world.
With very few exceptions, before being placed on the market, a lens is evaluated using OBJECTIVE scientific methods and high-precision instrumentation. In contrast, many photographers do, or are only able to do, a SUBJECTIVE evaluation of a lens, using vague qualifications like "aesthetically pleasing" or "nervous bokeh" or the like. However, there is not a fundamental contradiction between the objective and subjective evaluation of a photographic lens.A person who forgets that will spend his life adapting crappy lenses, hoping to find a photographic Holy Grail one day. _________________ If raindrops were perfect lenses, the rainbow did not exist. |
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D1N0
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Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2022 6:29 pm Post subject: |
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D1N0 wrote:
Many Lenses aren't designed to be objective. They are designed to make an image look pleasing to the eye. Objective lenses are boring. Aesthetics are designed into lenses. The way something is rendered albeit subject or bokeh is a design specification. In portraiture objectiveness is probably least wanted. You could argue that wide angle en Tele aren't objective because the field of view is distorted. _________________ pentaxian |
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Gerald
Joined: 25 Mar 2014 Posts: 1196 Location: Brazil
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Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2022 7:22 pm Post subject: |
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Gerald wrote:
A photographic lens is not designed "to make an image visually pleasing to the eye". Among other reasons, because it is practically impossible to objectively define what a pleasant image is. The "pleasantness" of an image is a subjective quality. It is up to the photographer to achieve an image that is pleasing to his eye. In fact, the photographer may be interested in precisely the opposite effect, that is, to produce an aggressive, provocative and even unpleasant image!
An ideal, fully corrected lens produces boring images only if it is in the hands of a mediocre photographer.
What a lens designer typically wants is to design a lens that suffers from minimal aberrations, subject to cost, weight, and price constraints. Rest assured that when a lens suffers from significant residual aberrations, this is NOT an imperfection purposely introduced by the designer, but a technical limitation of the design itself.
The important point, in my opinion, is not to keep saying that the aberrations at the corners are not important, but to recognize that in certain cases these aberrations can be tolerated.
The Konica 35mm F2.0 lens, in particular, was designed to be used by photo reporters who needed a fast lens. The technology of the time did not allow designing a relatively compact lens that would perform excellently at the corners at full aperture. That doesn't mean the Konica is a bad lens, but only a foolish person takes offense when someone mentions its poor performance at the corners and wide open. _________________ If raindrops were perfect lenses, the rainbow did not exist. |
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iangreenhalgh1
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Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2022 7:24 pm Post subject: |
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iangreenhalgh1 wrote:
Unless it is a technical form of photography, which is a different subject altogether, then all of the photography that is under discussion here is purely subjective. _________________ I don't care who designed it, who made it or what country it comes from - I just enjoy using it! |
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Gerald
Joined: 25 Mar 2014 Posts: 1196 Location: Brazil
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Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2022 7:59 pm Post subject: |
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Gerald wrote:
Of course, photography is not purely subjective, and I'm talking about photography in general, not technical photography. If non-technical photography were purely subjective, there would be no justification for the effort manufacturers continually make to design ever more perfect lenses.
What distinguishes a lens from another of the same focal length and aperture are the residual aberrations. As the lenses get more and more perfect, the images they produce also get more and more similar.
The proof that perfect lenses are not an impediment to a photographer's creativity are the thousands of photos taken by great photographers such as Adam Smith, Cartier Bresson, Ernest Hass, etc., who in terms of photographic lenses always used the crème de la crème. _________________ If raindrops were perfect lenses, the rainbow did not exist. |
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