MINOLTA MD ROKKOR 50mm 1: 1.2. Review from the reader Radozhiva

Overview of the MINOLTA MD ROKKOR 50mm 1: 1.2 lens specially for Radoživa, prepared Alexey Ovoshchnikov.

MINOLTA MD ROKKOR 50mm 1: 1.2

MINOLTA MD ROKKOR 50mm 1: 1.2

Hello dear amateur photographers. My name is Aleksey Ovoshchnikov and I present to your attention a brief overview on an interesting super-fast lens Minolta MD Rokkor 50 mm f / 1.2.


The lens allows you to take pictures and shoot videos at f 1.2, that is, it lets in a lot of light. You can take very interesting photos with strong background blur.

The sharpness zone is very thin and you can shoot a portrait by washing out not only the background, but also objects located closer to the portrait.

I want to add right away that it’s not at all easy to control this very sharpness zone on f 1.2, especially if your subject is not standing still.

I filmed dancing people two meters away from me, and it turned out that it was a matter of great skill or luck to fit both into the sharpness zone! Of course, the lens does not have automatic focusing and you have to turn the focusing ring, besides this ring is not so smooth. The lens, as you can see in the photo, is in excellent condition and was probably a bit tight initially. The focusing ring rotates from 45 cm to infinity by 180 degrees. Between half a meter and a meter, you have all 90 degrees of revolution of the ring - and this is just one human step. Personally, it was not very convenient for me to shoot something dynamic with this lens. Although not built for such dynamics.

The lens has normal sharpness at full aperture. Becomes sharper on F2. By the way, this lens has no middle position between F1.2 and F2. However, the aperture change ring does not rotate with clear clicks, but smoothly, with the ability to leave the aperture between F1.2 and F2, that is, you can put F1.4 and F1.8 on the eye.

MINOLTA MD ROKKOR 50mm 1: 1.2

MINOLTA MD ROKKOR 50mm 1: 1.2

If the camera has automatic exposure metering, then it will select the settings for these intermediate, hand-to-eye positions. I tested this on my Sony A7 camera. Metering works great with this fully manual lens on this camera. So, for example, if in mode A the camera offers 1/1000 s. for position f1.2, when soft closing to F2, the camera passes two intermediate positions 1/800 s. for f1.4 and 1/640 s. for f1.8 respectively.

I managed to shoot on this lens and portraits and landscapes that you can see in the photo. Special thanks to Arkady for choosing the best pictures from those that I sent him.

 

 

The lens forms a good image, both for a full frame and for a crop (some photos were taken on Sony NEX 3N).

I have good impressions with the Rokkor 50 mm f 1.2. I have never used a lens with this aperture, and compare on the forehead with nothing. If there is anything else with aperture f1.2, then I will try to show sets of photos.

Sony A7+ Sony NEX-3N

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Link to source files.

I want to add that the lens cannot be used normally on cameras of the popular SLR systems Canon, Nikon, Pentax, Olympus (the working distance does not fit).

Of course, you can buy a simple Chinese adapter for Canon (I did so until I had a Sony a7 camera), but you will not have infinity. On a full frame at the maximum focusing distance, you can shoot only a very large portrait of a small child, but you can easily shoot macro.

This lens finds a second life on mirrorless cameras such as Sony Alpha, Samsung NX and so on.

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Comments: 62, on the topic: MINOLTA MD ROKKOR 50mm 1: 1.2. Review from the reader Radozhiva

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    Die Objektive für analoge SLR sin d auf das 10 fache der Brennweite optimiert, hier also 5m.
    Ich habe dieses Objektiv schon lange. Es ist besonders für schwaches Umgebungslicht ge-
    eignet. Bei Offenblende ist die Detailschärfe im mittleren Bildbereich ausgezeichnet.
    Für DSLR ist das Objektiv nicht entwickelt worden. Fehlfunktionen sind daher kein Mangel.

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