I agree with all that you said except that I don't find the Kiron 28/2
to be particularly well endowed. Maybe the Zuiko 28/2 isn't
particularly well endowed either when it's wide open. Anyhow I find
that the Kiron 28/2 doesn't begin to come close to the Zuiko 28/2.8
until f/5.6. And even that's a bit of a stretch. But certainly from
f/8 on it's a dead heat.
Perhaps my Kiron 28/2 is a bad copy but I don't think it very likely.
If the box was in a little better shape I could probably pass it off as
new old stock.
Chuck Norcutt
On 7/6/2014 3:50 PM, Andrew Fildes wrote:
If you want the historical answer - Once upon a time in the long ago
and far away, 35mm was the best you could do for a 35mm camera. So
when 28mm showed up before the second major global stupidity, in
things like nice Leica leather case kits, it was the ultra wide of
its time. Then it became the widest you could get without serious
distortion, a role usually performed by a 24mm today. And then we got
fast ones too. The 28/2 Zuiko has a reputation as being awesome sharp
for a wide. The Kiron is similarly endowed although much larger. This
was not always the case (Canon wides were never as good as their
Tele's). So, eventually, the 35mm became the street lens and the 28mm
the street lens for 'togs who like to get closer so they like fast
ones and 24mm downwards is landscape territory where f/2 is probably
a bit too much light. It has become an inbetweener but only because
verywide technology has improved so much lately - so I'm not
surprised that some people don't know quite what to do with the
length. I think I'm one of them. Andrew Fildes afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Author/Publisher: The SLR Compendium,The TLR Compendium
http://www.soultheft.com/storehouse_photopublish/
On 07/07/2014, at 1:11 AM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
So, I ask again, why 28mm?
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