A few weeks ago I posted about my new camera with the Nikon-Sony speedbooster. Basically it takes a full-frame Nikon F mount lens, and adapts it to an APS-C Sony camera body. Currently I have 2 lenses I can use with it, a 50mm f/1.4 Nikkor Ais and a Helios 81N 58mm f/2. Both of these are pretty tightly zoomed in and I wanted a wider view for an upcoming event for the occasional selfie (The Sony A5000 has a selfie capable screen, it’s amazing).
I’ve been eyeing a Soligor 20mm f/2.8 lens for a while now, with a low-ish price of 60EUR I decided to order it.
Luckily it didn’t arrive in time. I’ve seen the Kodak disposable camera lens adapting video from Mathieu Stern on YouTube, which I quite liked the results of. This is somehow worse, without any of the redeeming qualities of a “film era lens”. Every technical problem you can imagine in photography, this lens has. It’s blurry, low contrast, high chromatic abberrations, lots of ghosting. If you stop it down to around f/8 it kinda gets sharp enough that you can recognize some shapes of what you were trying to take a picture of.
Surprisingly the close-up performance is not as bad, still not great. It’s passable in a pinch. The close-ups were taken at f/2.8, the others all f/5.6 or f/8. Examples below.
I’m keeping the 50mm f/1.4 on the camera
