Minolta AF 28mm F2.8 A-mount lens review by transiently
 transiently#45713 date: Jun-2-2021 | |
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| sharpness: 3 color: 4 build: 4 distortion: 3 flare control: 3 overall: 3.4 | tested on:
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| ownership: | I own this lens |
| compared to: | It performs about as well, on cropped sensor, away from the corners as something like the 24/2.8 or 35-105 first series at 35mm...but this isn't exactly encouraging, since both are far better in the corners. The Sigma 24/2.8, always a solid performer, blows this one out of the water, particularly away from the centre. |
| price paid: | it was almost free |
| positive: | Images have a nice look to them, with pleasant out of focus areas. It's easy to carry and use. Centre sharpness is good right from maximum aperture |
| negative: | Stop down to at least 5.6 or so if you have interesting things at the sides and don't think too much about the corners, even on cropped sensors. Corner sharpness is really very disappointing. |
| comment: | I have used this in its manual focus form on film, and on micro 4/3. The latter definitely shows that its overall sharpness doesn't stand much scrutiny, since M 4/3 is magnifying the image quite a lot, but it's not looking terrible on APS-C and was always fairly good on film, so I'd guess would be at least reasonable on full frame digital at, say, 24 MP, at least if stopped down to F11 or so to try to deal with the horrible corners. I took my A37 camera out of retirement to test it and quite liked it...but in all honesty, this isn't a sharp lens unless your subject is framed centrally. |
; 20MPrating summary
- total reviews: 142
- sharpness: 4.24
- color: 4.64
- build: 4.52
- distortion: 4.27
- flare control: 3.85
- overall: 4.31