Best adapted lenses for Samsung NX system?
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Best adapted lenses for Samsung NX system?
Feb 1, 2020
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I thought of beginning this thread as NX cameras such as NX1 and NX500 still have the best APS-C sensors—even today. The 28MP sensors in NX500 and NX1 are very demanding, and many lenses that may work fine on other cameras, don’t perform well on 100% view of 28MP APS-C image. This isn’t unusual—many lenses that perform well on FF, don’t perform well on even lower resolution APS-C sensors because enlarging a smaller portion of image demands a higher sharpness level in lenses (see example here ). Now that it is getting difficult to find NX lenses, which old manual adapted lenses have you found to be best? Please, share your suggestions.
I’ll start with myself. My top criteria for old manual lenses is sharpness wide-open (higher the better) and chromatic aberrations (lower the better). That is why you won’t see any old 50mm f/1.4 lens below, because I have never found an old manual lens that is actually sharp at f/1.4…and I have used MANY!
All the following lenses are sharp wide open and have minimal CA. These are my favorite top six (so far), in no order:
- Super Takumar 35mm f/3.5 (manufactured 1966-71; M42 mount)
- Super-Multi-Coated Macro-Takumar 50mm f/4 Macro (1:2) (manufactured 1971 onwards; M42 mount)
- SMC Pentax-M 75-150mm f/4 (manufactured 1980-85; Pentax K mount)
- Pentax-A 70-210mm f/4 (manufactured 1984-88; Pentax K mount)
- Quarry 135mm f/2.8 (Minolta SR mount)
- Soligor 400mm f/6.3 (M42 mount)
What are yours?
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