Mamiya 75-150 lens review
« on: June 15, 2007, 04:57:03 PM »
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Well we arrived at our weekend location and because I sometimes have internet access here I decided to start with some small notes on the lens.
The first impression is that the lens is very well build, but okay I expected that of course.
The lens is not small but to be honest the whole combination is nicely balanced.
Autofocus is fast and accurate even in some low light and highcontrast settings I tried it on.
I can't give judgment over image quality yet because I run from a laptop now.
The lens hood is a very tight fit something I absolutly love from the Mamiya system but also sometimes find a bit hard to turn, however I had the same with my 80mm and 120mm and after a few days the system loosend a bit up which meant it was much easier to turn and change the hood from the normal position to the turn arround position I use to store my camera in the bag.
The reach from 75-150 is very nice, it's not really wide but as a walkarround lens it gives for MY shooting style a perfect balans between close up and overview shots, one very pleasing detail is the focus distance, with 50cm this is really a nice heads up for close ups.
I sometimes do miss the 3-4x zoom from the canon system but on the other hand the picture is what I eventually want and the Mamiya is so much better there I can easily adjust my style for this Cheesy
So after the weekend I will post the examples and more of my findings, sorry to keep you waiting for that long Cheesy
Greetings,
Frank
