I have a Sony A7Sii that I use for making films and shooting photography. I'm getting ready for a trip to Tokyo and wanted to a 35mm street lens to capture my experiences as I explore. Canon FD/FL lenses give you a sharp image, shallow depth of field and an awesomely dreamy look. While I've only tested this lens, it seems to work great, the focus is smooth, the aperture wheel clicks nicely and the image is nice and sharp. I'm excited to start shooting!
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Great value fast lens, but the bokeh is busy and nervous more often than not. Still, sharpness is excellent, and ƒ/1.4 aperture is nice and bright. Contrast is great, too, due to the coatings. All in all a great vintage lens if you don't mind busy bokeh. You can get some smooth bokeh, but it's a challenge.
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This Lens has special mechanism to adjust infinity precisely, very comfortable and easy. The aperture diaphragm can be assembled accurately without a mistake, each stop worked as expected. the shape of aperture hole is very closed to circle which makes bubble bokeh. Focusing barrel is connected by inner and outer barrels, the whole progress of re-grease is not easy. After everything was restored, I used a FD-NEX adapter to attach it to sony a7R, the performance is really stunning, it's a bit like my carl zeiss jena 50mm f1.8 zebra, but has better color rendering ability because of the S.S.C coating. I really like it.
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Gives me the results I anticipated: very sharp image and great blurred background. Due to wide aperture, images and videos in very low light look like in a well lighted studio. Great lens.
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So I have a bunch of 50mm class lenses that I have tried on my Sony a7RII. This high megapixel camera brutaly exposes flaws in any adapted lens and in addition is intolerant of oblique ray angles that are common in wide angle lenses and even some standard focal lengths; giving smeared corners and far edges with otherwise great glass. It is my feeling that the older FD lenses work better with the Sony sensor than newer version of Canon and Nikon lenses. My particular copy of the Canon FD 50mm f/1.4 (which needed aperture and internal lens element cleaning) is the best all round manual focus standard lens have found; just edging out the nFD version. It has it's flaws of course and it shows it's age when compared to the Sony Zeiss 55mm 1.8. I also have the Nikkor 50mm 1.2, 1.4 and 1.8 lenses and as well as some older 55 and 58mm Nikkors but the Canon FD 50mm 1.4 breech lock has become my favorite. Read full review
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