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Entertainment Memorabilia. Gift Cards Coupons. Health Beauty. Chris Sherlocks other camera collection, everything but Retinas and Retinettes. Use the magnify function on your cameras image review to check for star trailing. Reduce your exposure time a little or use a wider angle lens to minimize the effect. Minolta M Rokkor 28mm f2. Lens Review Today we have a guest lens review. On a star of an M mount lens. This piece was originally featured over on www. Home Garden. Jewelry Watches. Music. Musical Instruments Gear. Pet Supplies. Pottery Glass. Real Estate. Specialty Services. Sporting Goods. Sports Mem, Cards Fan Shop. Stamps. Toys Hobbies. Travel. Video Games Consoles. Camera Geekery Minolta M Rokkor 2. Lens Review. Minolta M Rokkor 2. Lens Review. Today we have a guest lens review. On a star of an M mount lens. This piece was originally featured over on www. I thought it would fit well on here too. Check it out. The end of a tiresome week found me weary, disheartened, and worn out. It also found me stuffed into a small, German sedan with my wife, our one year old daughter, and enough bags, totes, and rucksacks to brave it for three weeks in Patagonia. But we werent going to Patagonia. We were going to Chatham, a coastal town protruding like a ganglion cyst from the elbow of Cape Cod, to see eroding beaches and million dollar homes and lighthouses and fog. And seals. And coffee, I hoped. It was right smack in mid morning, prime time for being bright eyed and bushy tailed, as the old men say. But contrary to my usual habits I was not bright eyed nor bushy tailed. In fact, I was exhausted a state for which the responsibility rested with the mentioned one year old now occupying her carseat in cherubic slumber. As we careened down the highway that was at one point made of four lanes, then two, and now one, I vacantly ruminated about the uniqueness of the small, scraggly conifer trees that dominated this odd, sandy landmass that so grotesquely jutted from the mainland. They looked downright prehistoric, though Id no idea why the aesthetics of a tree would put me in mind of prehistory. No doubt some synthetic memory compiled from a lifetime of movies, museums, and elementary school books. I was about to mention the uncommon looking trees to my wife when she broke in on my admittedly useless meditation, Was that the exit she asked. Was it I replied fruitlessly. I think it was, right She asked again, with equal futility. And so it was. What can I say I was tired and we missed the exit. A mistake, but no big deal. Theres really only two directions one can drive on Cape Cod, and we were still going in the right direction. Wed hit Chatham for sure, as long as I made a righthand turn at some point before we hit the Atlantic. And hell, I was so sleepy that if I never turned and we plunged into the ocean I think it likely that Id have kept on driving in silent, somber resignation. Wed keep on going and eventually emerge upon the rolling hills of Ireland, which are supposed to be nice this time of year. Processed with VSCO with f. Lack of sleep, an intense workload at the day job, and the crushing weight of running both a camera shop and a content based website had resulted in serious burnout. So serious, in fact, that Id actually thought of leaving home without a camera. But as I packed my bag that morning I felt the ever present pull to make the most of my time, to pack a camera for a future review, to bring a lens that I needed to write about. In the end, deadlines and obligation won, but I knew I couldnt go overboard. I needed something simple, compact, and above all, fun. Something that would help me engage with photography again without weighing me down. To this end, I chose the smallest lens in my inventory, Minoltas M Rokkor 2. F2. 8, and paired it to Sonys a. Fotodiox M mount to E mount adapter. I also managed to pack a super compact film camera, the Olympus XA, but thats a story for another time. Yes, despite my whining I packed two cameras. What can I say I love cameras even when Im sick of cameras. Less than half an hour after missing our turn the family and I were casually bebopping along the streets of Chatham. The kid was awake, the wife was ready to shop, and I was on the hunt for caffeine. Chatham is nice. Its the kind of idyllic seaside town that many people dream of living in and that even more vacation to in the summer, when the population more than triples. All along the main street, pristine white clapboards gleam in the spring sunshine, granite masonry accentuates noble colonial woodwork, and brilliant hydrangeas burst like fireworks aside the doorsteps of every shop and home. Its a pretty place. Almost as pretty as the Minolta lens mounted to my camera. Pretty good segue, dont you think But before we get too hot and heavy, lets get through the basics. The Minolta M Rokkors make up a concise collection of five prime lenses covering three focal lengths, these being 2. While many commentators will say there are only three M Rokkors, this isnt the case, as the 4. The two earlier versions were made for the Leica CL and are single coated lenses, while the later two versions were made for the Minolta CLE and feature multi coating. Hunt out the later versions for their better performance, and tell the difference via placement of the serial numbers on the lenses. Early single coated versions have the number on the nameplate bezel while the multi coated lenses wear their serials on the lens barrel. My 2. 8mm F2. 8 lens was never available for the CL as that camera lacked the CLEs 2. As we strolled, I did what I normally do and snapped some pictures. I learned pretty quickly that the M Rokkor is something of a mixed bag. Its a lens at odds with itself, and its equal parts superb and confusing. Right from the outset its clear that the M Rokkor 2. F2. 8 is a beautiful and well made lens. If youre used to M mount lenses from German manufacturers youll consider the Rokkor to be status quo, but if youve never used a Leica or Zeiss lens prepare to be impressed. Website Templates Html5 With Css3 Jquery Css. Fit and finish are just flawless. Knurling is laser sharp, and simply gorgeous. Markings for aperture, focus scale, and all the rest are engraved with impeccable precision. Every surface is made of metal. That includes even the nameplate bezel and the unique to this lens vented lens hood. Importantly, the aperture ring positioned on the end of the lens and the focus ring are machined to a stunningly high level of quality. Functionally things are just as nice. The aperture ring yields to an ideal amount of directed force and clicks into its detents with mechanical certainty. The ten bladed aperture is adjusted in half stop increments, while focus actuation is precise, smooth, and nicely weighted. Its a tiny lens measuring 5. Compared to similar lenses in its class its nearly impossible to find a lighter and more compact 2. The last time I shot this lens it was mounted to the Minolta CLE, the second smallest M mount camera in the world. It performed beautifully on that machine, fitting its minuscule proportions with effortless grace. On the a. 7 it feels a bit too small, but thats not the lens fault, and getting acclimated to the new dynamic happens pretty quickly. All this sounds great, doesnt it A tiny, incredibly robust lens thats not only capable of mounting to some of the absolute best film cameras of all time, but also capable of mounting to todays most advanced mirror less full frame cameras Yeah, seems amazing. And for the most part it is. But there are a couple of caveats. The M Rokkor lineup in general, but specifically the three multi coated lenses, are said by many experienced voices to offer image quality that matches or outperforms their Leica equivalents. Whether this is objectively true or not I wont venture to say, but in my experience with the 2. Im pretty impressed. This is easy to explain in the right conditions the M Rokkor 2. In my stroll through town there were ample opportunities to test for sharpness, light fall off, and other optical qualifiers. Lets take a look.