a step backwards, but a good step!

[Pherdinand]

i was looking silently for a 35 to 28mm wide for my M2...
With not too much success - the wides seem unreasonably expensive. OK you can talk to me about rarity induced value and excellent quality and so on, but a 28/3.5 lens is rather...slow...for over 200 bucks... and any leitz under the 50mm focla length is out of my budget... Of course i fantasized about the 35/1.2 voigtlander currently for sale, and similar exotic islands...
So what to do?

Seems I have found a very good and reasonably priced 35/2 lens... A konica hexanon, glued to the black hexar af body...🙂
if all goes fine i'm going to pick it up in amsterdam in the following days.
Why a step backwards? I haven't bought an autofocus thing since 3-4 years i think... And have not used the existing one since a year. I hope i won't get disappointed 😀but certainly not in the lens, from what i have seen and read.

Is the hexar af rangefinder-close enough to post results here?

 

[wintoid]

Oh what a camera! Of course this is all personal, but for me it's one of the all time greats, and singlehandedly responsible for forcing me to reevaluate the rush towards digital everything.

I was under the impression that the AF was considered acceptable for RFF, as it has (parallax-corrected) brightlines and so on.

 

[HuubL]

A Jupiter-12 perhaps? They have an excellent reputation for a bargain price!

 

[Pherdinand]

Thought about that, Huub...but... it is a bit slower I would wish for (also for DOF, not only low light reasons), and its ergonomics did not appeal too much to me(focus and aperture ring). And i also don't know if it is useable on an M mount camera. And i would need a LTM to M adapter. All toghether might cost just as much as the hexar af ...

 

[rover]

Thought about that, Huub...but... it is a bit slower I would wish for (also for DOF, not only low light reasons), and its ergonomics did not appeal too much to me(focus and aperture ring). And i also don't know if it is useable on an M mount camera. And i would need a LTM to M adapter. All toghether might cost just as much as the hexar af ...

Well, all that will be true for the Canon 35/2.8 also. But it is an excellent lens at a reasonable price.

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/photopost-classifieds/showproduct.php?product=4441

The older chrome version is even less expensive.

35mm is not an inexpensive focal length if you want anything faster than these or the CV Skopars.