Canon 28 3.5 and Velvia 50

[naruto]

This was shot a long time back, and I forgot about the roll. In a recent cleanup, I found the roll stashed into one of the camera bags. The slides look much better than scans.

Edit:this was shot using a M2 and metered with a GE lightmeter.

 

[gdi]

Nice shots - I like the look of the lens. Though shots could be bigger! 🙂

 

[raid]

The combination of a low contrast lens with a high contrast film works very well. The photos look very good. I often use a vintage lens with Velvia 50 slide film. With negative film, I like using Fuji Reala 100 with a vintage lens.

 

[squirrel$$$bandit]

Good. Excellent compared to Canon's lower-cost consumer zooms like the 28-80 and 35-80, and noticeably better than most of the third-party offerings. If you want your pictures to look better than the ones your Mom is taking with her $170 point & shoot, get this lens.
Contrast and sharpness are quite good throughout the zoom range. I'm not equipped to perform critical sharpness tests, but slide images under a 4x and 8x loupe and projected big (30" wide) on a screen look razor-sharp.
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The magazine reviews mention some minor barrel or pincushion distortion, but I've never taken a picture with this lens in which the distortion could be detected. You'd probably have to take a picture of a bunch of straight lines near the edge of the frame to notice it. (Hint: if your preferred subject matter is graph paper, you might be better off finding another hobby.)

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