Chinar 35mm f2.8

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Pentax K

f2.8-f22

.7 meters

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Eos M3 - APS-C

This lens is much like its 28mm brother. That review can be seen here.

It is soft wide open but quite usable by f5.6. Contrast is a bit low. Fringing will occur at wide apertures. Distortion is well controlled but vignetting is obvious at f2.8. Color rendition is on the cool side. I suggest custom white balancing with this lens.

It was very difficult to focus w/out magnified assistance and that only helped a little.

Flare was not tested. I assume it will be significantly affected by stray light.

Boken fringing is well controlled and this is typical of wide angle lenses that do not have macro capabilities.

As a budget lens it is a good performer and better than I expected.