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Auto Soligor 50mm f/1.8
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 04, 2012 12:25 am    Post subject: Auto Soligor 50mm f/1.8 Reply with quote
I've been collecting Soligors for a while now, so thought it time I put some of them through their paces. Today I took out the rather hard to find Soligor 50/1.8 prime lens, which presumably was sold with the Soligor SLR series of cameras.

Here's the lens:





And here are some example photos, all of which can be clicked on for my preferred enlarged 1500x1000 image size.

Some shots from a walk today (all f/4 or f/5.6). Note, there were a lot of hills, I'm bad at horizons, but not that bad Laughing:

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Here's some from last night. Sorry about the image quality, but such was the light, I was required to shoot at f/1.8 @ ISO 3200 pushed by 2/3rds of a stop = about ISO 5000 Shocked On a camera with a maximum native ISO of 1600 Laughing

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Now, last night I was seriously impressed by this lens. It is very sharp at f/1.8 and produced decent contrast. Outdoors, however, the lens struggles without a hood (I forgot to take one Rolling Eyes ). For all my walk shots today, I needed to boost contrast. I'm not used to doing that, but it seems to have worked OK. I will post some crops tomorrow to show corner performance.

Overall, pretty pleased at this stage!


PostPosted: Tue Mar 06, 2012 12:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I have this lens under the Miranda brand in M42 mount (not M44). I bought it because I thought it would be the same optically as the Miranda bayonet 50mm f1,8 lens, which is a great lens, and would be useable on more than m4/3. But I haven't got round to comparing the two yet.

I always use a hood with the bayonet version and find a slight levels tweak is still necessary, but that is not unusual.

Mark


PostPosted: Tue Mar 06, 2012 8:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Looks the same as the Miranda lens to me, which is a very good performer.

Most of the Miranda lenses seem to have a Soligor branded M42 counterpart.

Hint - look for the Soligor 2.8/28 that is the same as the Miranda one as the Miranda is an excellent lens.


PostPosted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 7:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Forgetting a lens hood is like forgetting your trousers; you simply should never do it! Laughing


PostPosted: Thu Jan 21, 2016 8:29 am    Post subject: Re: Auto Soligor 50mm f/1.8 Reply with quote
ManualFocus-G wrote:
I've been collecting Soligors for a while now, so thought it time I put some of them through their paces. Today I took out the rather hard to find Soligor 50/1.8 prime lens, which presumably was sold with the Soligor SLR series of cameras.
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Now, last night I was seriously impressed by this lens. It is very sharp at f/1.8 and produced decent contrast. Outdoors, however, the lens struggles without a hood (I forgot to take one Rolling Eyes ). For all my walk shots today, I needed to boost contrast. I'm not used to doing that, but it seems to have worked OK. I will post some crops tomorrow to show corner performance.

Overall, pretty pleased at this stage!


I've always loved the Miranda lenses (I used them for about 30 years!), and I agree they're very sharp, though I generally preferred the f1.9 over the f1.8 - maybe because I had one first, and maybe because the 49mm filter thread matched the filters I had accumulated and I wasn't prepared to carry a second set around with me. The 135mm f2.8 were also extremely sharp, particularly the later ones with the green writing and built-in lens hood. I mostly used the Mirandas for colour slides and the odd 20x30 print and I was rarely disappointed (provided I got the exposures right!)

I don't use them so much nowadays, except the Miranda Focabell with the Soligor short-barrel 135mm telephoto here:

which still does an excellent job in extreme macro (5:1!! The eye of the needle is about 1mm long)

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