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Quest for backpacking tele lens resolved :)


jmahto

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My longest lens for backpacking use has been 90mm macro-elmar and it is excellent. However I wanted a longer lens. I toyed with the idea of 180 APO 3.4 (never tried) and even Voigtlander 180APO Lanthar (a wonderful lens with close focus ability) but both are heavy for my use.

 

Then I found the lightest 135mm MF lens ever made, A Minolta MD tele-rokkor-x f/3.5. It was cheap so there was no harm in trying it. Boy, I was surprised. It was sharp enough corner to corner at f/3.5.

 

You can look at the pics yourself and judge... it has some CA which can be fully eliminated in PP.

 

I am happy. :)

 

Only issue I see is not so small close focus distance. But I can live with it for such a small and light lens.

 

 

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It is focused on top left corner tree (focus and recompose using EVF).

 

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It was wide open at 3.5. Look at the corner 1:1 crops. Unprocessed and processed (CA and sharpening)

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