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Chinar 35mm f2.8

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52mm

Pentax K

f2.8 - f22

2.5ft

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Eos M3

Chinar 35mm f2.8 lens

     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. 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.

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