Thanks! It is interesting, yes, also quite uncommon, yet pretty familiar in some ways. It doesn't feel weird or uncomfortable. Makes me wonder why it never became a more popular focal length.
Would love to see your take on a Hexanon lenses. The 40mm f1.8 is one of my all time favorites. 50mm f1.7 and 135mm f3.2 are great too. Compared to modern lensed they have a longer minimum focus distance, but sharpness is incredible.
I shoot Nikon professionally, but for personal use, I have my 14 Hexanons. Sharp, contrast and the color rendition is great! I have not tried them on digital but with film and my Autorefleces, the are difficult to match. Ecellent video!
Thank you for this Marco. I was just able to yesterday purchase the Konica Autoreflex slr, the 40mm f1.8 shown here and also a matching Tokina 200mm f3.5 lens for a very small price. All seems to be working fine. I have almost finished putting a roll of 35mm film through it . I will see if I can get an adaptor also to use it on my Canon 700d and 600d. Your results are very encouraging.
You got yourself quite a nice kit! Let me know how the pictures turn our and if you like the Tokina 😉 About the adapter, sadly I don't know of a way to properly use K-AR mount on Canon dslr, Konica's flange distance is too short for ef mount...
@@MarcoAries Thanks Marco for your reply.I hope to shoot on the 200mm today. When I get my film developed I plan to do a review of the camera and lenses on my youtube channel. I have had a bonanza of acquiring great vintage cameras lately.A rolleiflex tlr F4 w,a Minolta srt101,a Praktica in MTL series, and some others. I have a few projects lined up. I noted one of your videos on the pentax 50mm m42 lens. I have a huge collection of pentax equipment and I am thinking I need to get some adaptors to interchange them on both various film and digital SLR's. I also gained a beautiful medium format/35mm slide projector.The trouble is all this stuff is very addictive and time consuming.Geoff
Great video as always Marco, especially since the time of year is the same as it is now. I wonder whether a Sony gear is the correct one to evaluate vintage glass. I have in mind the colors that Sony is not very well regarded for in general, but especially since Sony colors don't render "vintage" color science. Have you tried these vintage lenses with Fuji cameras and what is your take on that if you did?
I haven't tried vintage lenses on Fuji cameras, but I know they render beautiful colors and someday I would like to try myself! At the end of the day, no digital sensor was made with vintage lenses in mind, and different brands or cameras are kinda like different film stocks, each has its own look. To say that Sony don't render vintage colors is like saying that a certain lens wasn't made to shoot Kodak Gold film. And yes, there are people arguing that some lenses were made to shoot only black and white or only a specific type of film, but I find all of that to be borderline stupid, to be honest 😉
@@MarcoAries In general I agree with you. The artistic value of pictures goes beyond technical aspects. However, vintage glass performs differently on different cameras and there could be technical resons for it. I would like to see your take on the first generation X-Trans Fuji cameras with the vintage glass you already reviewed with Sony. Fuji colors are quite different from the Sony that you are familiar with. Perhaps the old Fuji rendering will steer you differently as far as composition and artistic form of pictures is concerned. All the best.
@@MarcoAries a little bit, or try to talk in between the B-roll. I felt very lost and some of the footage just seemed like it was only there to increase the video length. Apart from that, keep up the good work!!
Nope, it is one of those lenses known as primes, which have a fixed focal length, in this case 40mm. Zoom lenses have numbers like 16-50 or 70-200, for examples, indicating how much they zoom, to put it simply
I'm getting curious as to why you say it's two step below Canon FD!? as I thought it is actually far superior. Am I missing something? And no I really ask a genius question and seeking for answer.
You mean when I said "this might be my third set"? It's just chronological. Canon FDs were the first that I really liked, then I got the Pentax, and then the Konica. To me, these three are on the same level, and I like each of them ;)
@@MarcoAries Thanks for the clarification and your kind reply. I consider myself a Canonist! by birth and yes Canon was my first tool to perform photography, when I was a very young boy. So I grow with them. But must tell the truth and some of the Konica Hexanons are far better than my beloved Canon, especially compare to same time products s.a. FL or FD lenses (Most noticeably lesser CA and a tad or more, better sharpness and contrast). This is a fact that in due time I never knew or wanted not to know!!! Some of Takumars are also I consider better. And again to tell the truth, some of Rikenon s.a. 55mm f1.4 a.k.a. Tomioka are in same league or a tad better! As for current lenses, No one has better lenses with better spectrum and choices than Canon and L series are top of the line of modern day glass. (Sorry Zeiss, Leica, Voigtlander!!!). Of course and to be fair, there are few exceptions here and there, just to mention one of the most odd ones: Samyang manual focus 135mm F2 is Better (Sorry Canon for betrayal), even than Canon AF, L series similar FL and F lens!!!!!!!
A great review and well done for showing the lens in use and the results. The only thing is the music ..... the tremelo sounded like the soundtrack from a 1970s soft porn film. 😏
@@MarcoAries the 40 and the 50/1.7 are razor sharp and bring out the colors well. The only sharper lens I used was the Zeiss 45 for the Contax G2---but colors not as nice.
40mm is an interesting focal length. I've never experimented with it as a prime lens, but would like to! Great video Marco!
Thanks! It is interesting, yes, also quite uncommon, yet pretty familiar in some ways. It doesn't feel weird or uncomfortable. Makes me wonder why it never became a more popular focal length.
Would love to see your take on a Hexanon lenses. The 40mm f1.8 is one of my all time favorites. 50mm f1.7 and 135mm f3.2 are great too. Compared to modern lensed they have a longer minimum focus distance, but sharpness is incredible.
I shoot Nikon professionally, but for personal use, I have my 14 Hexanons. Sharp, contrast and the color rendition is great! I have not tried them on digital but with film and my Autorefleces, the are difficult to match. Ecellent video!
Yes, they are nice lenses with a distinctive look! And thanks for watching!
The konica 135mm f3.2 hexanon is stunning as well
Noted, thanks! My list of lenses to check out is growing fast XD
Thank you for this Marco. I was just able to yesterday purchase the Konica Autoreflex slr, the 40mm f1.8 shown here and also a matching Tokina 200mm f3.5 lens for a very small price. All seems to be working fine. I have almost finished putting a roll of 35mm film through it . I will see if I can get an adaptor also to use it on my Canon 700d and 600d. Your results are very encouraging.
You got yourself quite a nice kit! Let me know how the pictures turn our and if you like the Tokina 😉 About the adapter, sadly I don't know of a way to properly use K-AR mount on Canon dslr, Konica's flange distance is too short for ef mount...
@@MarcoAries Thanks Marco for your reply.I hope to shoot on the 200mm today. When I get my film developed I plan to do a review of the camera and lenses on my youtube channel. I have had a bonanza of acquiring great vintage cameras lately.A rolleiflex tlr F4 w,a Minolta srt101,a Praktica in MTL series, and some others. I have a few projects lined up. I noted one of your videos on the pentax 50mm m42 lens. I have a huge collection of pentax equipment and I am thinking I need to get some adaptors to interchange them on both various film and digital SLR's. I also gained a beautiful medium format/35mm slide projector.The trouble is all this stuff is very addictive and time consuming.Geoff
You are right, it is addictive! I'll keep an eye on your channel 😉
Great video as always Marco, especially since the time of year is the same as it is now. I wonder whether a Sony gear is the correct one to evaluate vintage glass. I have in mind the colors that Sony is not very well regarded for in general, but especially since Sony colors don't render "vintage" color science. Have you tried these vintage lenses with Fuji cameras and what is your take on that if you did?
I haven't tried vintage lenses on Fuji cameras, but I know they render beautiful colors and someday I would like to try myself!
At the end of the day, no digital sensor was made with vintage lenses in mind, and different brands or cameras are kinda like different film stocks, each has its own look.
To say that Sony don't render vintage colors is like saying that a certain lens wasn't made to shoot Kodak Gold film.
And yes, there are people arguing that some lenses were made to shoot only black and white or only a specific type of film, but I find all of that to be borderline stupid, to be honest 😉
@@MarcoAries In general I agree with you. The artistic value of pictures goes beyond technical aspects. However, vintage glass performs differently on different cameras and there could be technical resons for it. I would like to see your take on the first generation X-Trans Fuji cameras with the vintage glass you already reviewed with Sony. Fuji colors are quite different from the Sony that you are familiar with. Perhaps the old Fuji rendering will steer you differently as far as composition and artistic form of pictures is concerned. All the best.
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Of the four lenses side by side, what are the second and third lenses?
In order from left to right: Canon FD 50mm 1.8, Konica Hexanon 40mm 1.8, Asahi Pentax-M SMC 50mm 1.7, Helios 44m-4 😉
@@MarcoAries thankyou
Does your lens have a little rattle when you use it?
Yes, it does. Many vintage lenses do, but as long as they work fine there's nothing to worry about! 😉
Hexagon f2 35mm is a fantastic lens. Not cheap anymore.
Too bad it's not affordable, hopefully prices will come down soon!
The camera is crop or ff?
The camera I used for the review? Sony a6500, APS-C sensor
so cool one-looks great it's works
how is it compare to nikon d lens. i have nikon 50mm f1.8 d lens
I haven't used any Nikon lenses, so far, so I can't say...
Great video buddy, the b-roll in the begging felt very long! :)
Thanks Gabriel. Do you think I should keep the intros shorter?
@@MarcoAries a little bit, or try to talk in between the B-roll. I felt very lost and some of the footage just seemed like it was only there to increase the video length. Apart from that, keep up the good work!!
Thanks for the feedback, I really appreciate it!
Can you zoom with this lens?
Nope, it is one of those lenses known as primes, which have a fixed focal length, in this case 40mm. Zoom lenses have numbers like 16-50 or 70-200, for examples, indicating how much they zoom, to put it simply
@@MarcoAries Thank you for the information, I will purchase goodbye friend
I'm getting curious as to why you say it's two step below Canon FD!? as I thought it is actually far superior. Am I missing something? And no I really ask a genius question and seeking for answer.
You mean when I said "this might be my third set"? It's just chronological. Canon FDs were the first that I really liked, then I got the Pentax, and then the Konica. To me, these three are on the same level, and I like each of them ;)
@@MarcoAries Thanks for the clarification and your kind reply.
I consider myself a Canonist! by birth and yes Canon was my first tool to perform photography, when I was a very young boy. So I grow with them. But must tell the truth and some of the Konica Hexanons are far better than my beloved Canon, especially compare to same time products s.a. FL or FD lenses (Most noticeably lesser CA and a tad or more, better sharpness and contrast). This is a fact that in due time I never knew or wanted not to know!!!
Some of Takumars are also I consider better.
And again to tell the truth, some of Rikenon s.a. 55mm f1.4 a.k.a. Tomioka are in same league or a tad better!
As for current lenses, No one has better lenses with better spectrum and choices than Canon and L series are top of the line of modern day glass. (Sorry Zeiss, Leica, Voigtlander!!!). Of course and to be fair, there are few exceptions here and there, just to mention one of the most odd ones: Samyang manual focus 135mm F2 is Better (Sorry Canon for betrayal), even than Canon AF, L series similar FL and F lens!!!!!!!
Among the modern ones, I really like Sigma's, but to be honest, to this point I have much more experience with vintage ones 😂
@@samsen3965 what Koncas can you place higher compared to FD/FL?
A great review and well done for showing the lens in use and the results. The only thing is the music ..... the tremelo sounded like the soundtrack from a 1970s soft porn film. 😏
Thanks! And, well, I do have a weird taste in music :)
24/2.8 40/1.8, 50/1.7, 85/1.8, 135/3.2, 200/3.5
Are these your recommended ones?
Yes too.
@@MrGranovski Good, for now I have only found the 135 2.5 ;)
@@MarcoAries the 40 and the 50/1.7 are razor sharp and bring out the colors well. The only sharper lens I used was the Zeiss 45 for the Contax G2---but colors not as nice.
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