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Mamiya 7 50mm lens

tjv

Active member
I haven't done the scans to back this up yet but man, this 50mm lens is really sweet! Really, really sweet. It's a revelation shooting this wide compared to equivalent 35mm focal lengths. Even when shooting modern Leica ASPH glass I saw more distortion and vignetting. Truly amazing stuff. Will post some (average) photos when I get time on the scanner...
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EdSawyer

New member
The 50 is a totally sweet lens, specs-wise it tests better than all the others by a small margin. (they are all Great though). I find myself using the 65 a lot as a nice walkaround lens, and it's a good one for that too.

I have some tests from older magazines, where the 7/7II and lenses were reviewed, including a test of all 5 of the lenses at the time (the 210 wasn't out then). They are at www.edsawyer.com/lenstests/

As for framing with the 50mm finder, I find that the actual film image is usually a little larger than the framelines in the finder, generally. Some people skip the external finder for the 50 and use the fully visible area on the main finder. Personally I tried that, but the external finder shows a bit more than the visible area of the main finder, so a little more accurate for framing.

-Ed
 
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