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Soligor 28mm C/D on Sony Nex

The lens I've had fitted to my Nex 6 today is a Soligor 28mm C/D f/2.8 k mount lens from about 1980 which is another of the lenses my father bought to use on his Pentax P30. To make a change I wandered down to Stevenage old town this lunchtime to try a few shots in less familiar surroundings.

Soligor 28mm C/D sample images

I don't think this was a particularly expensive lens when my father bought it, in fact I think it must have been quite cheap because we didn't have loads of money, so I wasn't expecting brilliant results from it. A quick search on e-bay suggests that you could pick one up for between £25 and £75 depending on the mount fitted.

If you examine the images at 100% for pixel peeping quality you will find that the corners of the images, when the aperture is fully open are a bit smeary and soft, but if you look at the overall image at a normal size I would say this has produced quite nice results. There is a fair amount of detail in the shots and the colour rendition is nice. I particularly like the fact that this lens allows close focusing, and used it to take some nice close-up flower pictures, although the majority of the pictures here are not close-ups. I deliberately tried shooting a shot looking up at the railway bridge with the sun peeping out of the corner and there is remarkably little flair showing. For the record, I had a 'Sigma perfect hood' clipped onto the front of the lens for the duration of this test and a 49 mm Hoya skylight (1B) filter fitted.

These shots went through my normal Lightroom processing steps.

Lens details

  • Soligor C/D Wide-Auto 1:2.8 28mm
  • Focal Length 28mm
  • Effective focal length 42mm
  • f/2.8 max aperture
  • f/22 min aperture
  • 'A' position on aperture ring
  • Macro focusing to 1:4
  • 49mm filter thread.

I'm hoping my next lens in this series will be a Pentax Takumar 28mm f/3.5 which I acquired from e-bay yesterday.

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