This superb vintage lens offers excellent image quality and can really isolate subjects from their surroundings thanks to the fast maximum aperture and excellent bokeh
Featuring a sturdy build quality and multi coated optics, this lens really looks the part and the performance is great, too! The lens produces punchy images with good contrast, warm and vibrant colours, good sharpness and pleasingly rendered out of focus areas aka Bokeh.
To get the kind of quality this lens offers from a modern automatic lens, you'd have to spend hundreds!
It's a manual lens so focusing and aperture need to be adjusted manually but the camera will provide automatic exposure control. With a few minutes of practice you will soon get the hang of it!
This lens comes with a removable Sony E mount adapter allowing it to be fitted to all Sony cameras that have an E / FE / NEX mount.
The adapter is non destructive and when removed, the lens has a "M42" mount and it can be very easily and cheaply adapted to pretty much any camera available today. I have personally used this lens on my Canon 60d, a Sony NEX-5 and a Panasonic G1 and GH2! There are M42 adapters available inexpensively for the following systems and more:
Canon EOS
Canon M
Canon R
Canon FD
Canon M
Contax/Yashica
Leica R
Leica M39
Minolta AF/Sony Alpha
Minolta MD
M42 screw
Nikon
Pentax K
Olympus OM
4/3
Micro 4/3 system
C-Mount
Samsung NX
Pentax Q
Nikon 1
Sony NEX
Fuji X
Adapters are in plentiful supply on ebay, just ask if you require any advice!
The lens is in good working condition overall with just normal signs of use and not abuse! A few cleaning marks and some internal dust specs as with all used lenses, but zero impact on image quality.
Fully tested on Canon and Sony cameras and delivering gorgeous looking images. Fully tested on Canon and Sony cameras and delivering gorgeous looking images.
Both the focus and aperture mechanisms function correctly.
The lens comes supplied with an M42 to Sony E adapter, front + rear caps.