1/1/2023 0 Comments Konica hexanon ar 35mm f2![]() ![]() ![]() With this lens I have found the resulting contrast of the images to be a little weak, but nothing a bit of work in post couldn’t address. ![]() Since I like to shoot mostly B&W with the vintage lenses I can only comment on colour results with my brief experience shooting colour. Sometimes the edges can get pretty soft on low cost glass (regardless of age) but this lens has very good edge-to-edge sharpness and very little distortion (I have done no distortion correction in these images). These old primes lenses don’t perform well wide open, but stopped down one or two stops and they usually are great. I have used it as a casual walk around lens, so I usually have the aperture at f4 or f5.6 and the resulting images are quite sharp. ![]() For being a very low cost vintage lens … it holds up quite well. In the short time I have used this lens, I’ve been impressed with the results. This is the smallest and lightest vintage lens I own as of this write-up. What’s nice about this lens is the size and weight savings. Both are well built, have solid aperture rings and smooth focus. Since this lenses widest aperture is 3.5 versus 2.8, it is noticeably smaller and lighter than my Canon FD 24mm f2.8. But I have read on forums where people have found 28mm primes at pawn shops, antique shops and thrift stores for less than $10 USD. The models that get to be a bit pricey (over $50 Canadian) are the ones that are either in mint condition, have a rare storage case and/or lens hood or are a rare version. Do an ebay search and you’ll see there is no shortage of vintage 28mm primes as it appeared to be a very common, low cost wide angle lens. But for being given the lens … or for someone wanting to pickup a very cheap classic prime lens, the 28mm does the job well. So that puts this lens in an odd place between the common 35mm and the common 50mm (the ‘Nifty Fifty’). I personally find 30mm – 35mm to be a preferred casual use focal length. I find 40mm to be a bit of an odd length. On my Fujifilm XT1 and XT2 bodies this lens produces an effective focal length of approx 40mm (in full frame and 35mm film terms). However this little write-up covers my experience with the Konica 28mm f3.5 prime lens. The only difference was there was an additional 35mm f2.0 in his Canon bag. He obviously had certain focal lengths he liked since both camera bodies had 28mm, 50mm and 135mm prime lenses. His camera bags consisted of two Canon and one Konica SLR bodies and pretty much the same lenses in each. This was another lens that was in a camera bag of my grandfathers. ![]()
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