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Please note that the Brightin Star 60mm F2.8 Macro 2X lens is available in different mounts. This review shows the Brightin Star 60mm F2.8 Macro 2X version for mirrorless cameras with a mount Sony E and APS-C sensor. At the same time, Brightin Star 60mm F2.8 Macro 2X is also available with mounts Canon EF-M, Canon RF/RF-S, Nikon Z, Fujifilm x и Micro 4 / 3.
In this review, I will call the Brightin Star 60mm F2.8 Macro 2X lens for short “Brightin Star 60/2.8 II” (so as not to confuse it with the first version “Brightin Star 60mm F2.8 MARCO2:1”[there is no misspelling of 'MARCO']).
Brightin Star 60mm F2.8 Macro 2X
In short
Brightin Star 60/2.8 II is a modern macro lens for mirrorless cameras with an APS-C sensor (or smaller). Only manual focus and manual aperture control are available. It is possible to shoot with a maximum magnification of 2:1 (twice as large as what can be done with classic macro lenses with a magnification ratio of 1:1).
Brightin Star 60/2.8 II has good image quality. A very successful model. At close focusing distances (less than 1 meter), Brightin Star 60/2.8 II can also be used on full frame cameras no problems with vignetting.
Brightin Star 60/2.8 II is interesting low price (Total about 160 dollars), all-metal body, 9 aperture blades and internal focusing.
Brightin Star 60mm F2.8 MARCO2:1 Lens (First Version) Unveiled 10 May 2021 of the year. Some time later, a continuation model was announced - Brightin Star 60mm F2.8 Macro 2X (from this review). The versions differ slightly in body design, front filter diameter (62 mm VS 67 mm), minimum focusing distance (19.1 cm VS 18.2 cm), minimum aperture (F/16 VS F/22). Most likely, the lenses use the same 10/7 optical design (however, I have also seen references to the 11/8 and even 7/5).
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Brightin Star 60mm F2.8 Macro 2X
Main technical characteristics of Brightin Star 60mm F2.8 Macro 2X:
| Review Instance Name | On body: Brightin Star 60mm F2.8 Macro 2X Ф67mm
E: Mount Side |
| Basic properties |
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| Front Filter Diameter | 67mm |
| Focal length | 60 mm
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| Zoom ratio | 1 X (this is a fixed lens, it does not have a zoom) |
| Designed by | Option from the review for cropped mirrorless cameras Sony E.
This lens exists with mounts: |
| Number of aperture blades | 10 rounded petals |
| Tags |
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| Diaphragm | from F / 2.8 to F / 22, controlled using the aperture control ring. There are marks for F / 2.8, 4, 5.6, 8, 11, 16 (dot only), 22. The ring rotates without clicks, smoothly. You can set any intermediate value. |
| MDF | 0.182 meters, maximum magnification ratio 2:1
working distance about 10 centimeters |
| The weight | about 600 gram |
| Optical design | 10 elements in 7 groups, including 2 low-dispersion elements, 1 aspherical element, 1 protective element (front?), some kind of hybrid element is also indicated (possibly a hybrid aspherical?), there is no exact data. Data varies greatly from source to source.
 Brightin Star 60mm F2.8 Macro 2X Most likely, a variation of this scheme is used in lenses PERGEAR 60 / 2.8 Macro 2: 1 (first version), PERGEAR 60 / 2.8 Macro 2: 1 (second version) and Brightin Star 60mm F2.8 MARCO2:1. The basis is most likely taken from the scheme Laowa 60mm 1:2.8 Macro 2:1 modified for mirrorless cameras with a short flange |
| Lens hood | Must be screwed into the thread of the front filter (threaded, not bayonet). The lens design has a “cine” light-cutting hood behind the front protective lens |
| Manufacturer country | Made in China |
| Period | With 2021 year |
| Price |
These lenses are very popular. All major lens manufacturers have 60/2.8 MACRO class models in their arsenal. Often these lenses are used not only for macro photography, but also for a variety of creative photography.
Brightin Star 60mm F2.8 Macro 2X
Assembly
In general, the lens well assembled.
Brightin Star 60/2.8 II uses bayonet mount metal and the lens body itself is completely made of metal (aluminum). The focus and aperture rings are also metal and rotate a little slowly.
The weight of the Brightin Star 60/2.8 II itself is about 600 grams. In your hands, the lens feels like a solid thing.
The diaphragm consists of ten petals and forms a round hole at any value, while in photographs in the blur zone, fairly round discs of blur are obtained. The diaphragm can only be controlled manually using a special ring. The aperture ring rotates smoothly, a little stiffly, no clicks and fixed values, you can set any intermediate value in the range of F / 2.8-F / 22, which is very useful during movie shooting.
Brightin Star 60mm F2.8 Macro 2X
Focusing
Brightin Star 60/2.8 II can use manual focus only.
The focusing ring is wide, metal, with small notched ribs. The ring rotates on 135 degrees (3/8 of a full turn). Focusing is smooth, a little tight.
The focusing ring is poorly 'stretched' in the range from a meter to infinity, which makes focusing in this range of distances extremely inconvenient. The slightest touch of the focusing ring in this range significantly changes the accuracy of focusing.
The lens uses internal focusing - while rotating the focusing ring, the front lens remains motionless. Most likely the front lens is a kind of built-in protective filter. Immediately behind the front lens there is a so-called light-cutting rectangular “cinema” built-in hood.
On the ring there is a scale with a focusing distance in meters and feet, a depth of field scale and a scale with a magnification factor.
The minimum focusing distance is 18.2 cm and the maximum magnification ratio is 2: 1. The working distance when shooting at 2: 1 magnification is about 10 cm (distance from the front of the lens to the subject).
There is a very strong 'Focus Breathing' effect (changing the viewing angle during focusing), which is characteristic of almost all macro lenses. When focusing towards the MDF, the viewing angle decreases.
Brightin Star 60mm F2.8 Macro 2X
Image quality
Brightin Star 60/2.8 II is optically quite good and even good.
Sharpness
- in the center of the frame at F/2.8 the lens behaves well. Sharpness at F/2.8 is present both when focusing at infinity and when focusing at about 1-2 meters
- good / excellent resolution in the center of the frame on covered apertures after F / 4
- there is a significant drop in sharpness in the corners of the frame at F/2.8
Distortion
- the overall level of distortion is at a level typical for such lenses
- weak pincushion distortion
Vignetting
- slight vignetting at F/2.8 and focusing at infinity
- easy to fix
- almost completely disappears after F/4
- when used on full-frame cameras, when focusing to infinity, there will be absolutely dark edges and corners of the image, but when focusing towards MDF, from about 1 meter, there are no problems with black edges of the image
Aberration
- low chromatic aberration, including low fringing
- the strongest chromatic aberration appear at the edges and corners of the image
- freezing almost completely disappears after F/4
Rest
- You can get significant artifacts from bright light sources; in backlight the lens behaves mediocrely (example)
- The lens tolerates side light well, maintaining high contrast
- you can get nice bokeh
Important: At the time of writing this review, there was no Brightin Star 60/2.8 I Macro profile for popular RAW converters. You can create a profile yourself or wait for its release.
Brightin Star 60mm F2.8 Macro 2X
Sample Photos
This review helped me prepare Anna Anuttara. All photos in the review are shown without processing. Sony NEX F3 camera (16 MP Sony Exmor APS-C HD CMOS sensor) was used.
Original images in JPEG ('.JPG') can view and / or download from this link (100+ photos, Google Drive cloud).
Brightin Star 60mm F2.8 Macro 2X
Price
Brightin Star 60/2.8 II costs around $ 160. The easiest way is to buy Brightin Star 60/2.8 II at Aliexpress from Brightin Star Official Store via this link.
Brightin Star 60mm F2.8 Macro 2X
Video review
Results
Brightin Star 60/2.8 II – inexpensive macro lens for cropped mirrorless cameras of popular systems. Optically not bad. Attracts with the ability to shoot at 2:1 magnification without any additional complications. At close distances it can also be used on full-frame cameras (without significant vignetting). Only big weight and size scares off, for example, similar models 7Artisans 60mm 1: 2.8 Macro II и MEIKE 60mm 1:2.8 MACRO significantly smaller in size and weight.
10 main advantages
- low cost (about 160 dollars)
- internal focus
- ability to shoot with 2:1 magnification
- convenient working distance (distance from the shooting lens to the front lens/lens trunk)
- the lens barrel is completely made of metal, including a metal mount
- there is a focusing distance and magnification scale, a depth of field scale
- the aperture ring rotates smoothly, without intermediate values (useful for video)
- good sharpness in the center of the frame already at F / 2.8
- well fixed chromatic aberration
- during macro photography, it is possible to use the lens on full-frame cameras without significant vignetting
10 main disadvantages
- quite large dimensions and weight (significantly more, for example, than a similar MEIKE 60mm 1:2.8 MACRO)
- small focus ring pitch
- difficult to focus at long and medium focusing distances
- no CPU pins to form the correct EXIF
- a threaded (non-bayonet) hood should be used
- screws are visible on the side of the aperture ring, not very nice
- slightly tight focus and aperture rings
- there is no lens profile for popular RAW converters, the lens is not 'hardwired' into modern cameras
- confusion in the description of the lens on the official website (the Brightin Star 60mm F2.8 MARCO2:1 and Brightin Star 60mm F2.8 Macro 2X versions have the same description, which is not true)
- significant deterioration in resolution at F/2.8 in the corners of the image
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Well, if it’s manual, then you could explain that the Soviet analogue of similar image quality costs $16.
For example, which one is this?
Wave 9
This is not “analog” at all.
MS Volna-9 2.8/50 MACRO –
1. for SLR cameras with a long flange. Brightin Star 60/2.8 II – for mirrorless cameras (does not require an adapter to compensate for the working distance)
2. lens for full frame cameras. Brightin Star 60/2.8 II is optimized for working with cropped cameras. As a result, this is an EGF of 50 mm (on cameras for which Volna is designed) and EGF of 90 mm (on cameras for which Brightin Star is developed)
3. gives only 1:2 magnification, but Brightin Star 60/2.8 II gives 2:1. I should note that “out of the box” not a single Soviet lens could give even 1:1, which is generally considered “real macro”. Need macro rings. And in general, what other Soviet macro lenses are known? Now look at the list of the same Chinese options - it is huge, there is plenty to choose from.
4. hello ninja stars
5. hello to the opportunity to buy new (but not everyone is ready to use old stuff that stinks of their grandfather’s garage)
This, it seems to me, is the Soviet resentment of users who are passionate about the idea of “there are no analogues”
Volna-9 is an old piece of junk that works more or less adequately only with F/5.6 at its maximum available shooting scale. This lens from the review has a much more complex and advanced optical design, which ~50/2.8 lenses never dreamed of in the USSR. Due to the fact that the lens is focused without moving the entire side of the lens (like wave-9), as can be seen from the photo, good correction is achieved both at short distances and at infinity. At the same time, Volna-9 cannot normally go to infinity, and Industar-61 is so-so on a 1:1 scale due to strong spherochromatism. Here it is more appropriate to compare with some new product like the Zenitar 60/2.8, but it provides only 1:2, not 2:1, like this lens, and it uses much simpler materials and a design (based on the old Nikkor 60/ 2.8).
Arkady, a lot for taking a look.
Ale finally attacked the rogue of Volny-9)) Apparently, don’t forget to take off the Wave and calm down. You know that there are such people.
Wave-9 can hardly be classified as a macro, it doesn’t reach the same scale. However, when applied to the reverse mode, the scale is set to approximately 1:1. However, the circular saws on the side did not give me optimism, and they also had uneven teeth. At the moment I was inspired and not sorry.
Food may be delivered to you. Which lens really has a rear lens that is so large, larger in diameter than the front? If so, then it’s clear in scale, it’s similar to an inversion.
Lenses with a reversing adapter do not shoot at infinity. Rear This one (close to the diaphragm), not that big