Industar 50-2 50mm f/3.5 (M42) (KMZ) [K450] & NEX5

[fotomachi]

Very nice lens for its size and price!

The adapter for M42 > NEX is even more voluminous than the lens itself









There is a special gallery for pictures taken with this lens on display on my website, but at this time, it only contains images of the lens and of the combo with NEX5.

[PaulC]

It's a very nice lens. I like the colour and the rendition in the centre (which is very sharp on a 5D Mk2), unfortunately it does lose the plot a bit in the edges and corners. I think it would be very good indeed on a crop-sensor DSLR.

This is most of the frame from my 5d/2:



(I've just cropped the bottom a bit to remove a distracting head)

Here is a 72dpi crop from near the centre of the frame:



But here is a 72dpi example from the left edge, where it has done very funny things to the treetrunk.



The shot was taken at an undemanding f11 or thereabouts.

There's also some fairly obvious vignetting, but that can easily be corrected in photoshop.

[kansalliskala]

Just can't understand how small the NEX is, how do you handle it? I couldn't fit more than two fingers around the handle.

Luckily I have this:
Unfortunately I think you might have a better image quality ..

[56 DIN]

regarding the use on NEX it has an important advantage: it is the lightweight even with the adapter it is ( 140gr) 50 % of the NEX ( 300gr ) - good to balance