thafred
silver addict
Yesterday my lens arrived and luckily I could take a coffee-brake walk into the backwoods near vienna! I loaded a roll of APX 100 and souped it in RHS developer 1:15 8min. now I´m very impressed! my expectations havent been too high but I was curious how it would look esp. after reading Tom A´s post about the lens in my thread : http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=45798
now I´m baffled! I had to shoot everything at 3.5 since the light was weak (did some shots at 5.6 - 16 too) and their plenty sharp! what I´m most surprised is how bokeh came out! wow, beats most my other lenses hands down 😛 contrast is low to medium but I prefer that in a lens anyway.
handling is ok, thou I´d prefer a not turning front (it has 2 aperture scales like the late Jupiter8) because focusing is so smooth that you have to hold the barrel when changing aperture! the click stops are soft and well defined but nevertheless the lens turns when changing f-stop. otherwise it looks and feels like new and the glass is very clean and scratchfree!
so, here are some of my boring first test shots: (all wide open)
now I´m baffled! I had to shoot everything at 3.5 since the light was weak (did some shots at 5.6 - 16 too) and their plenty sharp! what I´m most surprised is how bokeh came out! wow, beats most my other lenses hands down 😛 contrast is low to medium but I prefer that in a lens anyway.
handling is ok, thou I´d prefer a not turning front (it has 2 aperture scales like the late Jupiter8) because focusing is so smooth that you have to hold the barrel when changing aperture! the click stops are soft and well defined but nevertheless the lens turns when changing f-stop. otherwise it looks and feels like new and the glass is very clean and scratchfree!
so, here are some of my boring first test shots: (all wide open)