Konica hexanon ar 57mm f1.4 full#

Another hour or so of cleaning and the lens looked virtually new.

I searched ebay and found another dirty one with a stuck aperture for a great price.

I was still curious about whether my particular lens was special in some way, however. Could it be possible that I got a particularly good example, one from the top 1%? At this point I remembered to consult with the other Konica encyclopedia, and found out that Jean-Jacques Granas states that вЂњIt performs extremely well, but in other ways than the 50/1.4вЂќ.В I could immediately relate to this вЂ“ my thoughts exactly. The following morning I got one of my other cats вЂ“ the grey-brown tabby with a pink collar вЂ“ to pose for some outdoor shots. And the somewhat unique, warm and old-fashioned color rendition. The almost complete lack of chromatic aberration. But it was not just that вЂ“ the soft, fluffy bokeh!! The seamless transition from in-focus to out-of-focus areas.

Konica hexanon ar 57mm f1.4 full#

The remarkable sharpness on EngelsвЂ™s eyes, with the lens wide open, held up under full resolution. Of course I chimpped (who doesnвЂ™t?) and was somewhat astonished by what I thought I saw вЂ“ that looked like a really good lens! Magnify the image on the LCD and zoom-in on the eyes вЂ“ wow!! Was it really possible? I downloaded the raw files and did some quick-and-dirty processing on Capture One. Two of those shots are included in the gallery below, they are the ones of the orange cat. So I put the lens on my Sony A7, woke up Engels and took a few shots of him with the lens wide open. One of my cats was sleeping on my computer chair, on which I can get some good light from a desk lamp. Being of the impatient denomination, however, I could not wait until the morning to try it. The whole process from a dirty lens with a stuck aperture to a fully functional lens with immaculate glass took about an hour. The Hexanon 57mm was dirty inside and out and the aperture was stuck but, like most Hexanon primes that I have come across, it was easy to take apart and clean. Some time ago, however, I got one in a lot together with several other lenses. Andreas Buhl,В in his compendium of all things Konica, compares it somewhat unfavorably with the more modern and certainly magnificent Hexanon 50mm f/1.4.В Largely because of this opinion, the 57mm f/1.4 lens was always low in my interest scale. I got acquainted with this lens without intending to.