It's not a bad lens and not an expensive one at that. I really like the blue flare it can produce when the sun hits it just right. Thank you for your videos it motivates me to go play around with the different lenses I have in my kit.
Thank you, its good to know that you are enjoying the videos, I do wonder how they are being received, hopefully they encourage people to get out there in the real world?
Very good video and the lens seems quite 'punchy' Karl. As a brand it was one that a lot of retailers steered away from, partly because of their UK distributors and also having their own lens mount that was never very well supported. Such a shame for such an important manufacturer.
Thank you Alan,that's interesting about retailers steering away from the brand, I know when I first became interested in photography in the late 1980s I was totally unaware of the konica brand, in the camera club I joined the big three where Nikon canon and Minolta, with Pentax struggling to keep up with the advent of autofocus
did you or would you consider the older version for the sake of an improved mfd or does the latter version have better coatings or maybe it just doesn't matter. thanks!
Good question, well when I saw it for sale,(at a good price) I just went for it, after it arrived I did the research and worked out which version it was ( it wasn't clear which version I was getting from the photos in the listing) after researching the lens, it didn't seem like they made much if any change optically between this and the first version , Konica made the lens a little lighter and changed the close focus from 45 cm to 55cm , coatings as far as I could tell from reading up on the lens stayed consistent, unfortunately when im researching these lenses sometimes you get conflicting reports, so if im not sure I don't include it, apparently I have read somewhere that this lens was used by the Japanese military as the benchmark to compare other lenses to ,but i couldn't confirm if that was 100 percent true
My experience with vintage lenses led me to belive there are no "magical" properties to particular models, it's really more down to the sample variation than anything. The recent video on David Hancock channel where he did a huge test of 50mm 1.4 lenses kinda confirms my observation. Some of the lenses he tested were very early models and performed greatly, like silver nose zuiko 50 1.4 which was single coated at a time.
@@bwellington3001 I also watch Hancock, as Zenography is not quite my flavor even though he still provides interesting info. What other channels do you recommend for vintage glass?
Another amazing must watch ❤
Thank you Sarah, great to hear from you, glad you're enjoying the channel
It's not a bad lens and not an expensive one at that. I really like the blue flare it can produce when the sun hits it just right. Thank you for your videos it motivates me to go play around with the different lenses I have in my kit.
Thank you, its good to know that you are enjoying the videos, I do wonder how they are being received, hopefully they encourage people to get out there in the real world?
Very good video and the lens seems quite 'punchy' Karl. As a brand it was one that a lot of retailers steered away from, partly because of their UK distributors and also having their own lens mount that was never very well supported. Such a shame for such an important manufacturer.
Thank you Alan,that's interesting about retailers steering away from the brand, I know when I first became interested in photography in the late 1980s I was totally unaware of the konica brand, in the camera club I joined the big three where Nikon canon and Minolta, with Pentax struggling to keep up with the advent of autofocus
did you or would you consider the older version for the sake of an improved mfd or does the latter version have better coatings or maybe it just doesn't matter. thanks!
Good question, well when I saw it for sale,(at a good price) I just went for it, after it arrived I did the research and worked out which version it was ( it wasn't clear which version I was getting from the photos in the listing) after researching the lens, it didn't seem like they made much if any change optically between this and the first version , Konica made the lens a little lighter and changed the close focus from 45 cm to 55cm , coatings as far as I could tell from reading up on the lens stayed consistent, unfortunately when im researching these lenses sometimes you get conflicting reports, so if im not sure I don't include it, apparently I have read somewhere that this lens was used by the Japanese military as the benchmark to compare other lenses to ,but i couldn't confirm if that was 100 percent true
My experience with vintage lenses led me to belive there are no "magical" properties to particular models, it's really more down to the sample variation than anything. The recent video on David Hancock channel where he did a huge test of 50mm 1.4 lenses kinda confirms my observation. Some of the lenses he tested were very early models and performed greatly, like silver nose zuiko 50 1.4 which was single coated at a time.
@@bwellington3001 I also watch Hancock, as Zenography is not quite my flavor even though he still provides interesting info. What other channels do you recommend for vintage glass?
@@seoulrydr another one would be Marco Aries
@@bwellington3001 i'm a sub there, too. i'm fairly certain you're aware of 'simon's utak' and 'red_code'.