Scenes Seen: GFX + Minolta MC Rokkor 58mm f/1.2.
As mentioned in one of my first posts about this lens, I had a fast 35mm lens to adapt to GFX.
Liked it a lot.
Worked great on GFX.
Sold it.
Why? I am glad I imagined that you asked.
After switching from M 240…
…to GFX…
…I eventually also let go of my M film rig.
So… I had M lenses… and no M mount cameras.
Let me make one thing clear. Despite my nonsensical pursuit of cameras, great and small, new and old, film and digital, there is a small component… very small… of logic involved. And a rangefinder coupled lens without a rangefinder coupled camera made no sense to me.
Take the rangefinder coupling out of the equation, and there are a mess of similarly capable and less expensive lenses to consider.
It took me a while, but after careful consideration, I settled on the Minolta MC Rokkor 58mm f/1.2. The reasons:
- A quality optic.
- Warm colors, nice bokeh, sharp enough wide open, well behaved stopped down… but I will not be doing that.
- That wonderful film era lens build.
- Fast.
- As fast as the Nokton 40mm I let go of.
- A pleasant looking thing.
- What? That matters.
- I also have a film camera to put behind it.
On the day of its arrival, I immediately put a roll of film through it. I already posted about that.
I followed this up with some digital posts.
This post. This post here? A digital edit follow-up.
The occasion.
A trip to the weekly rehearsal.
The images.
A few snaps.
Thoughts.
A wonderful lens.
As “good” as the Nokton? Technically?
No.
But I have lenses for technical perfection on GFX digital.
I like a bit of character when adapting film lenses.
And this lens delivers.
A wonderful lens for hundreds less.
Here are additional images of the lens on the GFX.
Welp. That will do it for now.
Happy capturing.
-ELW
Eric L. Woods 