Yashica ML 50 mm f/ 1.7 Lens

Build quality, sharpness, landscape and general photography

Weaknesses:

No fancy "BoKeH" to speak of....but if that's your thing, fork out a bit more and buy the 1.4.

Comments:

I have owned one of these 50mm 1,7 ML lenses for absolutely years. I forget which Yashica camera it actually came on way when when. I subsequently bought a Contax 139Q in 1980 that came with the Zeiss Planar 50 1,7. The two are often compared and with reason. In my opinion they are basically the same lens, same layout etc and some even go as far as saying both have the same glass. This I don't know, but I do know that the build quality of the ML is superior to the Planar and that for slide photography which is what I still do, there is no apparent differences in the lenses.....apart from one commands up to ten times more than the other.

Color reproduction

Sharp!!!

Smooth focusing with a precise long throw

Great short-ish portraits and close-ups lens

"Poor man" Zeiss Planar for 1/5 price

Weaknesses:

My copy does not focus to infinity on Fiji X-E2 body (m.b. due to a thicker glass covering the sensor)

My copy produces a strange purplish color shift under certain light conditions

Comments:

My copy has a slightly etched real glass that surprisingly does not affect the image quality. At least not dramatically

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• Compact
• Sharp
• Beautiful picture
• Durable body
  

  Weaknesses:

  Bad resists backlight
  

  Comments:

  I had this lens and Contax 1.7. All the same, in the end left a Zeiss, but this lens is also quite decent. There is a great normal lens - Yashica 50 1.4

  By the way! There is a version 1.7 by 50 Yashika mark II - is a complete analogue of the Zeiss 50 1.7. But this lens is very rare.
  

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