Album images with a legacy Pentacon 30mm f/3.5, a vintage wide-angle M42 screw-mount lens with a compact five-element clickless preset aperture, and a close 30 cm focusing distance.
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The Pentacon 30mm f/3.5, a vintage wide-angle M42 screw-mount prime originating from East Germany, is the direct mechanical and optical successor to the famous Meyer-Optik Görlitz Lydith 30mm f/3.5, a lens highly acknowledged and acclaimed for its razor-sharpness, unique 3D pop, and close-focus capability.
The lens features a compact 5-element in 5-group construction with 10 aperture blades, a clickless preset aperture mechanism, and a close 30 cm focusing distance.
To use, set your target aperture limit by pulling the outward ribbed ring on the front of the lens to click-stop at the required aperture setting. This will allow the lens to be kept wide open at f/3.5 for easy focusing, before stopping down to the pre-selected aperture right before shooting.
Shot wide open at f/3.5, the lens has the distinct vintage sharpness in the center, but with softness and vignetting in the corners, especially on full-frame sensors. Sharpness improves noticeably when the lens is stopped down to f/5.6 or f/8. The lens is also susceptible to flare when shooting against the sun, and may exhibit slightly swirly background blurs (bokeh) under the right conditions.
The compact, all-metal, tactile lens is easily adapted to modern mirrorless cameras using easily available M42 lens adapters, and as seen in this case, these images were shot with the Pentacon 30mm f/3.5 mounted on a Canon EOS Kiss X3.
Album Images
On a Canon APS-C digital SLR camera, with its 1.6x crop factor, the Pentacon 30mm f/3.5 is equivalent to a standard 48mm full-frame lens, a focal length that mimics the human eye's perspective. The lens is ideal for everyday street shots, casual portraits, and documentary storytelling. Its 0.3-meter close-focus distance allows for semi-macro shots with pleasing background separation.
Canon EOS Kiss X3, Pentacon 30mm f/3.5
The Canon EOS Kiss X3, introduced in 2009, comes with a spec sheet that includes a 15.1mp APS-C CMOS sensor, DIGIC 4 image processor, an ISO range from 100 – 3,200 (expandable up to 12,800), a 9-point AF system with a cross-type center sensor, and a 920,000-dot 3.0-inch Clear View LCD screen. The Camera is one of the earliest entry-level DSLRs to offer Full HD (1080p) video, which is limited to 20 frames per second (fps).
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