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24/28/30mm lens options

Started Aug 5, 2015 | Discussions thread
Hithertoo Senior Member • Posts: 1,841
Re: 24/28/30mm lens options

Be aware that you will need am adapter to use legacy lenses. I suggest one of the bigger brands, Konica, Minolta, M42 or Canon so that you can use the adapter with other lenses. Get a cheap adapter from eBay, or Amazon, and go from there. Choose a common lens and it will be cheaper. It's probably easier to find a 24mm lens than a 28mm. You won't get auto focus, but you can use focus peaking as a sort of "focus confirm" to make sure that everything is nicely focused. In time I'd still recommend a native lens.

The M42 and Contax lenses you're looking at will be the smallest by a significant margin the Yashica Yashinon-DS 28mm f 2.8 (M42) - 45 Euro / 49 $ is a little more expensive but its a good lens if you want something small. The biggest problem with the Contax lenses isn't the quality its just that there isn't many of them and they're all generally expensive.

An example of an M42 lens on A GX7 shows you why they make a good fit for each other you can achieve a much shorter lens length even when adapted.

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