Evening with the Yashinon 2/50

[Mos6502]

This is one of my favorite lenses on 35mm, I haven't played with it much on my DSLR because it can be hard to focus without a split screen.





I like the OOF rendering of this lens, both foreground and background.





You can just make out the shape of the aperture in the boke'





I think there is something about how there is just the faintest bright line around specular highlights - it's not the gaussian smooth OOF of some lens, but lacking the harshness of many other fast normals from the same period (think Mamiya 2/50, or Oreston) or the "chunkyness" of a Tessar. The boke' has character, but it is not distracting. The diaphragm blades are curved enough that the aperture is practically a perfect circle at f/2.8, and only slightly noticeable at f/4 which is another nice feature.

It is of course plenty sharp, my only complaint about this lens really is the mechanical quality is not great. There tends to be a slight looseness in the entire barrel which causes the lens shift back and forth each time one turns the focus ring.

[Attila]

Thank you for sharing it, very few people know this lens well I think.

[Mos6502]

Some macro shots... the Yashinon's beautiful rendering really shines in this sort of work.


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