#Best bubble bokeh lens Patch
#Best bubble bokeh lens series

This adapter allows me to use my M42 lenses with autofocus. Next to the Pronto adapter iitself there was an additional Fotodiox M42 to Leica M Adapter in the parcel. By then I will do several testing with this adapter to check out how it performs and which lenses it works good with. Schmitz from the german Lumiere-Shop borrowed me one of his Fotodiox Pronto adapters untill February 2018.

#Best bubble bokeh lens series

To my surprise the Soligor rated and tested as the best of the two when I went through a series of detailed head-to-head quality tests from wide open at f:3.5 to f:22.Īs I came home from the office today there was a parcel waiting for me.

I mean come-on with a name like Soligor it can’t be that great. I first gravitated to the larger and heavier Kyoei Super-Acall but I finally relented and picked the less-impressive Soligor. They are indeed sleeper lenses and better that all the 135mm Hektors that I have owned. WOW! I am amazed by both the Kyoei Super-Acall and the Soligor. I took the two sleeper lenses down to the local dam on the Little Blue River as well as performing a test on the top of the local courthouse. I have always struggled to find a great 135mm lens and with the 1.3x crop of my Leica M8 chip, the 135 effectively becomes a 175mm. I was using it on a Micro 4/3 camera and it was splendid. It’s great at infinity but difficult to focus on anything very close.

#Best bubble bokeh lens Patch

My Elmarit performs well but it doesn’t focus accurately on the rangefinder patch of my M8. The eyes were scratched beyond use, so please don’t gasp. I’ve always hunted for the perfect M-mount 135mm lens – even to go as far as cutting off the eyes of a Leica 135mm f:2.8 Elmarit. The weekend came around, so I decided to put the two “sleepers” to the test. I could not sleep that night as visions of the two lenses danced in my head.

Okay, I did become excited at this point and even found one reference calling the lenses, “better than the Hektor 135.” I searched the Internet only to find that both the Kyoei Super-Acall and the Soligor lenses are very loved by their owners. The lenses showed up the same day as the coveted IIIC, so they didn’t get much attention until later that evening. I really didn’t care about these lenses as my big prize of the day was my fourth IIIC stepper to add to my collection. I quickly paid for them ($24.99 with shipping). I slapped down a $27 bid, only to find out in a few minutes that I was now the proud owner of these two 135mm lenses for a paltry $19.99. Both were in 39mm Leica Thread Mount and the auction was about to end with no bidders. During my browsing I also located two 135mm lenses for sale. I quickly located a Leica IIIC stepper and bought it for under $400, with a clean 50mm collapsible Elmar. I often type Leica in the auction website and just browse the closing auctions for a bargain. Sleeper 135mm f:3.5 Lens Testīattle Between Two Cult Classics, the Kyoei Super-Acall and the SoligorĪ few years ago, I was rather bored and went onto the Internet for some entertainment. The following article is a guest post by Jim Headley.