Vintage Lens: Minolta Rokkor PG 58mm 1.2

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This lens is probably one of my favourites because the character of the lens. This lens in not perfect when you look at the test chart you would be able to see that the corners are soft, the lens vignette and the barrel distortion is fairly pronounce. But the images that this lens produce have something special that is hard to objectively quantify.

On the technical aspect the lens is compose of 7 elements in 5 groups. It weights 478gr, is 54mm long and the filter thread is 55mm. In the hand the lens feels very well built is all metal and glass.

The bokeh of this lens can be a bit busy at f1.2 but it becomes very soft at f2 and f2.8. The lens has low contrast at 1.2 and becomes better when you stop down the lens, in terms of sharpness the lens is soft wide open (but i like this in portraits) as you stop down the lens it becomes sharper but I don’t think you should buy this lens if you plan to use it pass f/2.8. You can buy better lenses and cheaper lenses if you are gonna use it at smaller apertures.

On infrared the lens doesn’t perform well at all. The hotspots are very visible.