NEX7 + Fujian 35mm/1.7

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NEX7 + Fujian 35mm/1.7

NEX7 + Makinon 500mm/8

 

[kit laughlin]

So, Hot: when I searched for that lens, I came up with:

35mm f/1.7 CCTV cine Fujian lens with Sony NEX adapter | eBay

And all the adapters are thrown in.... for $42??? What a deal!

And I am from Australia, not Austria! Cheers, kl

 

[HeavyDuty]

I'm very tempted - I'm just worried about being on the short end of the stick of sample variation.

 

[hot]

cctv 35mm - ca. $26

cctv 35mm | eBay

cctv 35mm + NEX adapter - $30

cctv 35mm nex adapter | eBay

adapter only $5

c nex adapter | eBay

 

[HeavyDuty]

Oh, what the heck - it's only $30! Ordered.

 

[hot]

Macro rings (1 or 2) are nice to make macro photos (I use them often).

I prefer adapters with thick edge, they are easier to remove.

 

[hot]

... and some new cards for NEX

 

[madmaxmedia]

My Fotasy 35mm (same as Fujian) is very sharp...in a tiny central portion of the image. Just like Rawfa's images he's posted here.

I don't get how these images have much larger central sharpness area.

 

[Mike Hatam]

Here are a few shots I took at the beach with my CCTV 35/1.7. To get sharpness across a broader area, you have to stop down significantly.

@f1.7:

@f1.7:

@ f5.6:

@f8:

 

[hot]

Wow! Very good pictures - for such a cheap lens.

 

[Mike Hatam]

Yeah, the best $32 lens I've ever owned

 

[hot]

But lenses for $999 are 20% better! ;-)

 

[HeavyDuty]

My Fujian 35/1.7 arrived today (in a padded envelope with no box! ). It looks good, but one thing I immediately noticed is that the aperture doesn't seem quite right. It's more or less round from f/1.7 through f/4, starts getting oblong at f/5.6, and then becomes rectangular in about a 1:2 proportion until it closes completely by f/16.

I don't plan on shooting this lens much stopped down, but I'm curious if this is normal behavior or if I have a wonky copy. Can people that have these lenses check and let me know if theirs are the same?

Thanks!

 

[madmaxmedia]

I don't have it with me, but don't ever recall such behavior with the aperture blades.

 

[madmaxmedia]

Mike those beach pics are great. They accentuate the 'features' of the lens perfectly, especially the sunset reflections on the water in the last pic.

 

[Mike Hatam]

madmaxmedia - thanks for the compliments. The nice light really helped that day.

Ken - I had the same exact aperture behavior on my copy of the lens. Just write it off as a "feature" of a $30 lens

 

[HeavyDuty]

OK, thanks - I'll shoot and see how it works!

 

[HeavyDuty]

I'm happy to report that it works fine, but I had forgotten how much fun it is trying to nail focus on handheld wide-open closeups!


Riverwalk Founders 2 by K J Ford, on Flickr

 

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NEX7 + Fujian 35mm/1.7

 

[pegelli]

Great shots hot, seems to give very good detail rendering and pleasing colours. I like #2 and the last best.

Do you have any experience with the Fujian 25/1.4 or Wesley 24/1.4 on the nex, especially interested in vignetting and overall image quality. They seem very reasonably prices at MX camera's.