I bought this lens on ebay for a very good price and I had high hopes for it when used on the Sony Nex cameras which are the best at present for using legacy manual focus lenses.
Since the Nex-7 has a purple cast to the images when using wide rangefinder lenses I decided to give this lens a go on the Nex-7, it being longer than a 35mm lens. Anything 35mm or wider will give you a nice purple image, which can be corrected is post but it really is a lot of work to do. My wide lenses have therefore been relegated to the Nex-5N or my m4/3 cameras. M4/3 cameras are harder to manual focus with, having no focus peaking (apart from the new models coming onto the market), but I still like using them. Another problem I have with the Nex is they only allow you to the 3:2 or 16:9 aspect ratio, whereas the m4/3 cameras allow 1:1, 4:3, 3:2 or 16:9. I really don't know what Sony were thinking here as I personally like the 4:3 and especially the 1:1 ratio options.
I digress, so back to the lens it is. I'm not sure really what to make of the lens. In some situations the image quality is brilliant and in others it lacks contrast. The image above took a lot of work to get it the way it looks, there was definately a lack of contrast when I opened it in Lightroom.
Since the Nex-7 has a purple cast to the images when using wide rangefinder lenses I decided to give this lens a go on the Nex-7, it being longer than a 35mm lens. Anything 35mm or wider will give you a nice purple image, which can be corrected is post but it really is a lot of work to do. My wide lenses have therefore been relegated to the Nex-5N or my m4/3 cameras. M4/3 cameras are harder to manual focus with, having no focus peaking (apart from the new models coming onto the market), but I still like using them. Another problem I have with the Nex is they only allow you to the 3:2 or 16:9 aspect ratio, whereas the m4/3 cameras allow 1:1, 4:3, 3:2 or 16:9. I really don't know what Sony were thinking here as I personally like the 4:3 and especially the 1:1 ratio options.
I digress, so back to the lens it is. I'm not sure really what to make of the lens. In some situations the image quality is brilliant and in others it lacks contrast. The image above took a lot of work to get it the way it looks, there was definately a lack of contrast when I opened it in Lightroom.
