by Abbazz » Mon Nov 13, 2006 1:50 am
Mikhail,
I have never used either Mamiya 43mm nor Pentax 45mm, so I am not able to compare image quality of these lenses. They all have a very good reputation, which seems deserved as far as I can tell from the pictures I have seen. Usually "straight" wide angles exhibit less distortion and have better corner sharpness than retrofocus lenses (like the Pentax 45mm). The Fuji 50mm is indeed very sharp on the whole field (even wide open). Like most ultra wide angles, it suffers from moderate vignetting wide open, but I don't find it annoying, except for landscapes on inversible film. Anyway, vignetting is easy to correct with a center filter (expensive) or in Photoshop.
As for field coverage, the Fuji 50mm and Mamiya 43mm have the same 90 degrees diagonal field angle, while the 45mm Pentax is slightly narrower.
Cheers,
Abbas
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Abbazz on Sat Nov 18, 2006 10:35 pm, edited 1 time in total.