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On a budget: fast Vintage Wide-Angle lenses for your M43?

Started Jul 7, 2017 | Questions thread
umptious Regular Member • Posts: 488
Re: On a budget: fast Vintage Wide-Angle lenses for your M43?
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The problem with vintage wides is a combination of

- The crop factor

- The problems in designing around an SLR mirror box. When you can't have the rear element of a 28mm that distance from the film, you have to use a very complicated design https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ang%C3%A9nieux_retrofocus

Really good vintage wides are therefore rare and expensive and sort after by people shooting A7 series cameras - who spent thousands of dollars on their camera bodies so don't mind paying big money for glass

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