The Canon FD 20mm 2.8 is an affordable wideangle lens (around $200 mid 2015) which performs well on the Alpha 7. I have owned and used my copy for more than a year now and wanted to share my experience with you.
| CANON FD 20 2.8 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Length | 62mm | |
| Diameter | 78mm | |
| Weight | 305g | |
| Filter Thread | 72mm | |
| Aperture Blades | 6 | |
| Short focusing distance | 25cm |
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I wanted to see how my new FE 2/28 compares against my older manual lenses, so I ran a comparison between four lenses:
Continue reading Old against New: Zeiss 2.8/28 vs Sony FE 2/28 vs Minolta MC 2/28
I like and use Minolta SR lenses a lot and this is a growing database of them.
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All ratings are based on my experience with these lenses on my fullframe Sony Alpha 7.
f/2.8: The center is excellent, and most of the image sharp enough, midframe sharpness is actually lower than near corner sharpness wile the far corners are unsharp. Vignetting is surprisingly low.Fisheye lenses are very hard to master, I wasn’t really succesfull at it. But this is a good lens, so good in fact that it also came in Leica R-mount and the same optical design is still used by the current Sony 2.8/16 Fisheye.
There is a younger MD version which is supposedly not as good.
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At f/2.8 a small central region is sharp, bokeh is ugly and vignetting very noticeableIt might be that the copy I tested had an issue with the floating elements design which caused the midzone dip.
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Continue reading The rated List of Minolta MD/MC Lenses on the Sony a7
The Tokina AT-X 90mm 1:2.5 Macro is a manual focus lens, with a maximal magnification of 1:2. It is well know for it’s supposedly great bokeh, it was even nicknamed Bokina because of this.
It was produced in any major mount like Canon FD, Nikon F etc., my copy has a Minolta SR mount.
Their wide range of applications make macro lenses in the 100mm range quite popular, so I will show you in this review if the Tokina AT-X Macro 90 mm 1:2.5 could be a good option for you.
Is the Novoflex adapter worth a three digit figure when I can get one from China for 10 bucks? That was the question I had in mind when I bought it.
Currently I don’t own a single lens with an E-mount for my Sony Alpha 7, so every lens I use is adapted and I use adapters all the time. Over the last three years I have gained some experience with cheap adapters but I hadn’t used one of the more expensive ones. So I decided to buy a Novoflex NEX/CAN adapter, which was made in Germany and put it to the test. Continue reading Novoflex Adapter E-Mount Review