24/25mm lens for A7s query?

[kuuan]

Just one more thought: The OM 24mm f/2.8 is a good lens, but I don't know that it's that much better than other SLR lenses, except for being smaller.

according to my own tests but performed on APS-C sensor, and according to the test at 16-9 linked above on Canon FF it most likely is.
if wanted an f2 I read ( don't have the lens ) that's not too expensive but said to be very good Canon comes in

 

[Peter David Grant]

One final question: Kuuan, or anyone else, do you have a suggested adapter to go from OM to E?

Just going to buy the lens now.

Peter

 

[kuuan]

One final question: Kuuan, or anyone else, do you have a suggested adapter to go from OM to E?

Just going to buy the lens now.

Peter

hm..I may be the wrong person to ask as I am sure that others would warn against this. I have read reports again and again that it 'also' happened that an adapter from a more expensive brand had been worse than a cheap one. My strategy therefore has been to just to buy the cheapest one I could find from China on ebay and if it's not good enough to simply buy a different one. That have been some 20+ different adapters in total for Sony E, Leica M and Pentax K mounts. I have been happy with all of them but two, a Pen-F>E mount adapter which only fit some but not all lenses, and that, as I had to find out, was because the Pen-F lenses have, most surprisingly, two variations of bajonets, and a Leica M>E mount adapter, the only one which was not just the cheapest but from a bit reputed brand, which simply was too tight.

can't recommend the seller I had bought my OM>E mount adapter from because right now he isn't offering any

 

[ColSebastianMoran]

Just to confirm, Kuuan was right about the Fordes lens. It's an f/2 and it is multi-coated.

Adapters: If you want to scale-focus, you'll want one that's quite precise. In any case, you want one that will reach to infinity. I never scale-focus, so I have been using cheap adapters with good success.

 

[cz23]

I don't think anyone has mentioned the Voigtlander 25. If have the first version and used it for the brief time I had an A7. It's not RF coupled but focuses on the Sonys.

The thing I like about it, and the reason I have kept it, is because of the focus click stops at 1m, 1.5m and 3m for working hyperfocally. Love that feature.

I shoot all BW, so wasn't concerned about color shift, if there even was any. It's also tiny and has a focus tab.

John

 

[kuuan]

I don't think anyone has mentioned the Voigtlander 25. If have the first version and used it for the brief time I had an A7. It's not RF coupled but focuses on the Sonys.

The thing I like about it, and the reason I have kept it, is because of the focus click stops at 1m, 1.5m and 3m for working hyperfocally. Love that feature.

I shoot all BW, so wasn't concerned about color shift, if there even was any. It's also tiny and has a focus tab.

John

John Peter had specifically asked about this lens in his original query and there had been mention of it a few times and I linked to my photos I had taken with it:

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in comparison the 'album' with the photos taken with the CV 4/25 you are interested in. Right now about the first 30 seen had been taken on FF Sony A7, the rest on APS-C ( the first one taken on APS-C is the mirrorimage showing my hand and a 'tube' ): https://www.flickr.com/photos/kuuan/sets/72157633352494287/

I have been defending this lens for use on an A7 but many don't agree and therefore I have become hesitant to recommend it. Corners are critical but it really depends on personal use and views, I think best for anyone is to view samples and see for himself

 

[ColSebastianMoran]

Kuuan, I am jealous of all the color in your locations! Very nice shots in these sample albums.
Thank you for the samples.

 

[kuuan]

Kuuan, I am jealous of all the color in your locations! Very nice shots in these sample albums.
Thank you for the samples.

thank you for the thumbs up Colonel 😉 These had been taken in the colourful places Bali and Vietnam with lot's of sun. - which actually makes the use of old lenses, which I like, a bit tricky at times but the CV, being a rather modern lens is doing great and in this respect has an advantage over the OM. I feel a bit guilty of not having recommended the CV, it really is a fantastic lens and as I had written earlier about the colour shift resp. corner problematic: "there also is loss of sharpness usually referred to as 'smearing'. might not disturb for the majority of photos, but...for some it will". Good corners are the biggest advantage of the OM and it's up for the user to decide which factors are decisive for him.

 

[Peter David Grant]

post some photos from whatever you end up with!

Will do! It arrives tomorrow, along with a cheap adapter from Amazon. I never scale focus, and frankly the peaking is so good on the Sony, I don't think it'll matter.

ColSebastianMoran thanks for confirmation of MC! It should arrive tomorrow.

Thanks again! I'll post some pictures here once I've taken anything of worth with it!

Peter

 

[Peter David Grant]

Hey all,

Lens and adapter arrived yesterday. Seems good, need to get used to focusing with it, but shouldn't take to long.

Hopefully soon I'll do some documentary stuff with it, I'm due to spend a day in a train cab with a driver, so will be better than a 35mm for the cramped conditions, but for now here are four from a quick walk around Oxford this morning:

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