Thanks for the video. You were the first one I saw review it. I ended up picking it up as a small walk around option. I can put it in a pocket which is great.
I've never tried any of the MS Optics lenses, but Bastian on PhillipReeve.net seems fascinated by them and going solely from the pics in his reviews, I've never understood why. Even the people who love them seem to appreciate them more for “character” and distinctiveness than for merely making reasonably sharp pictures without excessive flare. The Brightin Star lens is much more mainstream: wide open it makes sharp-looking pictures with a tight “halo” around highlights that I personally find appealing. It's pretty flare-prone if you include light sources in the picture, but that's easy to avoid. The biggest knock against it I see from others is that there's a lot of focus shift in the extreme corners on a 36x24mm-format camera, but I'm mostly using mine on a Pixii so I never see that!
Tanks you for you quick response! I’m too using a Pixii and in the process of constituting my lens kit. I came from a Leica CL analog which I loved (40 f2 and 90 f4 ) but sold this kit for a m9 with a 35 summicron, which corrodes… any suggestion for a 35 to 40 equivalent first lens ( street photo and ambient portraits ) ?
A lens with a focal length of 28mm on your Pixii will give you a 48-degree angle of view along the long side of the image... exactly what you got with the 40mm lens that you liked on your Leica CL film camera. So, I think that might be a great place to start! I personally like the super-compact 28mm f/2.8 Brightin Star lens that I featured in another video (ua-cam.com/video/MeC5mgZlSKg/v-deo.html) but its susceptibility to flare (and its soft corners if you also use it on a 35mm film camera) might be drawbacks for most people. The Voigtlander Ultron 28mm f/2 is probably a more sensible choice, although I haven't tried one so can't speak from personal experience. I'm very interested in the new Thypoc Simera 28mm f/1.4 lens because of its sophisticated design (floating element for better close-up performance, aspherical element, high-index glass) but although Thypoc has a big presence on Instagram, so far I haven't seen any photo examples from independent reviewers... so far they are "all talk, no action" as the saying goes! Let us know what you decide for your starter lens and what you think of it...
It's a Pixii A2572, a French-made digital rangefinder camera with an M-type lens mount. There are several videos about it elsewhere on my channel. The Pixii uses a Super 35-size sensor, so the Brightin Star 28 is a semi-wide-angle lens on it; I use it as a "wide-ish normal" lens. The feel is a lot like using an old Canon QL19, Minolta Hi-Matic, or one of the many other "compact rangefinder 35" cameras of the '60s and '70s that came with a fixed 38mm or 40mm lens... it's a great walking-around combination.
Thanks for the video. You were the first one I saw review it. I ended up picking it up as a small walk around option. I can put it in a pocket which is great.
Hello, any thought concerning the quality of the lens ? I ´m torn between this lens and an apoqualia 1,7 from ms optics.
I've never tried any of the MS Optics lenses, but Bastian on PhillipReeve.net seems fascinated by them and going solely from the pics in his reviews, I've never understood why. Even the people who love them seem to appreciate them more for “character” and distinctiveness than for merely making reasonably sharp pictures without excessive flare. The Brightin Star lens is much more mainstream: wide open it makes sharp-looking pictures with a tight “halo” around highlights that I personally find appealing. It's pretty flare-prone if you include light sources in the picture, but that's easy to avoid. The biggest knock against it I see from others is that there's a lot of focus shift in the extreme corners on a 36x24mm-format camera, but I'm mostly using mine on a Pixii so I never see that!
Tanks you for you quick response! I’m too using a Pixii and in the process of constituting my lens kit. I came from a Leica CL analog which I loved (40 f2 and 90 f4 ) but sold this kit for a m9 with a 35 summicron, which corrodes… any suggestion for a 35 to 40 equivalent first lens ( street photo and ambient portraits ) ?
A lens with a focal length of 28mm on your Pixii will give you a 48-degree angle of view along the long side of the image... exactly what you got with the 40mm lens that you liked on your Leica CL film camera. So, I think that might be a great place to start!
I personally like the super-compact 28mm f/2.8 Brightin Star lens that I featured in another video (ua-cam.com/video/MeC5mgZlSKg/v-deo.html) but its susceptibility to flare (and its soft corners if you also use it on a 35mm film camera) might be drawbacks for most people. The Voigtlander Ultron 28mm f/2 is probably a more sensible choice, although I haven't tried one so can't speak from personal experience. I'm very interested in the new Thypoc Simera 28mm f/1.4 lens because of its sophisticated design (floating element for better close-up performance, aspherical element, high-index glass) but although Thypoc has a big presence on Instagram, so far I haven't seen any photo examples from independent reviewers... so far they are "all talk, no action" as the saying goes! Let us know what you decide for your starter lens and what you think of it...
@@jlwilliams Hi, does the brightin star have focus ship as you stop down?
wts the camera used in the video?
It's a Pixii A2572, a French-made digital rangefinder camera with an M-type lens mount. There are several videos about it elsewhere on my channel. The Pixii uses a Super 35-size sensor, so the Brightin Star 28 is a semi-wide-angle lens on it; I use it as a "wide-ish normal" lens. The feel is a lot like using an old Canon QL19, Minolta Hi-Matic, or one of the many other "compact rangefinder 35" cameras of the '60s and '70s that came with a fixed 38mm or 40mm lens... it's a great walking-around combination.