Flektogon

Inspector’s condition notes

Lens in like-new condition — another legendary top-tier vintage lens. Renowned for its creamy, oil-painting-like background bokeh, and it can also focus as close as 22 cm. The Optical elements are flawless with no scratches. Focus and aperture movement are buttery smooth, just like a new lens. Internal components are solid and tight, with no internal lens rattle. The exterior body looks like new, but there are 2–3 small spots of paint loss or scratches around the lens barrel edges or on the focus ring and aperture ring (you have to look closely to notice them).

How this lens renders

Compared to the 35mm lens of the same spec, what makes this Flektogon stand out is its minimum focus distance of 0.2m, which isn't easy to find in wide angle lenses of the same era. At f/2.4-f/2.8 wide open, the center is slightly soft when shooting at distance. Stop down to f/4 and the sharpness improves noticeably. Impressively, at the 0.2m close focus, it's sharp from wide open. The bokeh melts the background beautifully. The depth of field is shallower than expected wide open, giving pleasing dimensionality without being aggressive. Color rendition is impressively vivid (with a faint green cast in the extreme corners on the Sony A7rII). This is the multicoated version — flare resistance is excellent even when shooting straight into the sun. It can produce vignetting to direct the eye at wide open (around 2.2 EV), which fades when stopped down to f/4 and f/8. A cult classic vintage lens that's both genuinely usable and well worth collecting.

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