Pherdinand
the snow must go on
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 disappointedbut certainly not in the lens, from what i have seen and read.
Is the hexar af rangefinder-close enough to post results here?
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
Back to film
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.
I was under the impression that the AF was considered acceptable for RFF, as it has (parallax-corrected) brightlines and so on.
HuubL
hunter-gatherer
A Jupiter-12 perhaps? They have an excellent reputation for a bargain price!
Pherdinand
the snow must go on
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 ...
Pherdinand said:
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.