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50mm range Manual Lens Test on M Mount ( 17 lenses!)

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olch

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Having recently a couple hours of free time made a test of 17 (!) 50mm range MF lenses on M mount ;)

ISO400, window light, F 1.8-2.0, but Skopar and Tessar since they are F2.5 and F2.8)

Verdict- cheapo lenses are not so bad agains grandes ;)




1. Cosina MC 55/1.2 PK


2. Voigtlander Color-Skopar 50/2.5 LTM


3. Voigtlander Nokton 50/1.5 LTM


4. Helios-44-2 58/2 М42 USSR


5. Helios-44М-4 58/2 М42 USSR


6. Kodak Schneider-Retina 50/1.9 Retina


7. Konica Hexanon AR 50/1.7 AR


8. Leica R Summicron 50/2 LR


9. Leica Summitar50/2 LTM


10. Minolta Rokkor MC 58/1.2 MC


11. Asahi Takumar 55/1.8 M42


12. Petri Color CC 55/1.8 M42


13. Porst 50/1.2 EOS mod.


14. Topcor 58/1.4 M42 mod.


15. Yashica Yashinon-DX 50/1.7 M42


16. Carl Zeiss Sonnar 50/15 ZM


17. Carl Zeiss Tessar 45/2.8 Pancake C/Y


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hell, whats the porst for a lens ? thats a really great pic from that....sure f1.2, but still !
great job by the way !!!
 
The Helios-44-2-58-2-f2 seem pretty cool, as does the Leica R Summicron 50/2 LR. Would need to download the files and have another careful look again though...thanks for this input! :D
 
Hmh, interesting. It`s widely known that the norrmal lens (around 45-58), most of them built around Gauss or Sonnar scheme, when properly centered, will exhibit good quality. Your comparison demonstrate just that. The motive itself makes it a bit difficult to evaluate particular lens. It would help to include a 2 dimensional element and focus on that. In your case I tried to use the grooved ridge of the flower vase but I`m not sure you focused just on that. Take the two Helioses. The picture taken with Helios 44-2 shows superb sharpness on vase while Helios 44M-4 doesn`t. Another thing is aperture. I would rather show every lens at it`s max. aperture just to show differencess between 1.2 and 1.8 or 2.(bokeh!). All in all, your shots prove, that with 3D objects ( flowers, portraits) centered in the picture, where the edge sharpness doesn`t matter, most of the normal lenses are more then O.K. Finally, one lens stands out due to it`s low contrast, Summitar. I guess that`s because it`s uncoated. Interesting enough, the renoved movie lens maker Cooke makes the lens line with interchangable front elements, coated and uncoated. Very expensive like all of their products. Well, we can offer one of those bargain normal lenses and rub the front coating of. Anyway, many thanks for your contribution. Stanis
 
An interesting test and unique bunch of candidates. Thanks for posting.

9. Leica Summitar50/2 LTM has a real haze. Maybe just the way it works with digital or lack of coatings?
As far as detail and bokeh goes, I like the Zeiss Sonnar. Out of all of them, this is what I'd choose.
 
meditate":1awj6s0t said:
hell, whats the porst for a lens ? thats a really great pic from that....sure f1.2, but still !
great job by the way !!!
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The Porst was a retail line rebranding of a number of other known brands by the German firm Revue which also sold under the Revuenon brand. They sold rebranded German Enna and Japanese Tomioka lenses at least. I am far from an expert on this and would be happy to be corrected. The Tomioka 50mm f1.2 sold under a number of brand names and seems highly regarded.

Tom
 
Great!

Thanks for giving up your time to show this cross section of lenses.

Bang for bucks the Helios Ziess Biotar clone wins hands down.

So if we re-arranged this into lens-cost order what night the judgement then be? Ah! the expensive ones ... why? Simply because they are expensive they must be good?

Tom
 
*scroll... scroll... scr..... snag!*

*read label*: "Zeiss Sonnar 50mm/1.5"

It seems I can pick a Zeiss lens out of a lot of 17 lenses instantly now. Never expected that. But it's colors do stand out: much warmer than any other lens in the test.

Damn. I love that lens maker. Pity that their 15mm/2.8 and 85mm/2.0 are both over €2500 (with the 85 out of production even), or I would replace my CV15/4.5 and 75/2.5 at once, even though they are fine lenses, especially for the price. And I'd like them to start making AF primes for Canon... I'd probably never even consider an L-lens if they did.

Thanks for the test :)
 
Fantastic work.

I like very much the 58mm rokkor f1.2, creamy bokeh master.

I use nFD Canon lenses in my GXR.

50mm F1.4 is sharp at f1.4, excellent bokeh and high iso render.

Greetings.
 
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