Personal (and pretty subjetcive) evaulation of 35mm lenses on DSLR cameras.
(0 = bottle bottom; 1 = hardly suitable for photography; 2 = poor; 3 = average; 4 = very nice; 5 = excellent)
| Lens name | Haptics | Colour rendition / Contrast |
Centre sharpness |
Centre sharpness stopped down |
Bokeh wide open |
Bokeh stopped down |
Corner performance |
Corner performance stopped down |
Vignetting wide open |
Vignetting stopped down |
Speed | Overall result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Asahi S-M-C Takumar 3.5/35 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 37 |
Carl Zeiss Jena Flektogon 2.4/35 |
3 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 46 |
| Leica Summicron-R 2/35 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 46 |
MIR-24N 2/35 |
4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 42 |
Porst WW 1.8/35 |
3 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 37 |
| Steinheil Auto-D-Quinaron 2.8/35 |
4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 43 |
Vivitar Auto 1.9/35 |
4 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 36 |
Final ranking:
1. Leica Summicron-R 2/35 (46 Pts.)
1. CZJ Flektogon 2.4/35 (46 Pts.)
3.
Steinheil Auto-D-Quinaron 2.8/35 (43 Pts.)
4.
MIR-24N 2/35 (42 Pts.)
5.
Asahi S-M-C Takumar 3.5/35 (37 Pts.)
5.
Porst WW 1.8/35 (37 Pts.)
7.
Vivitar Auto 1.9/35 (36 Pts.)
As I wrote this ranking is utterly subjective and not at all scientific. The table above enables the reader to weigh different aspects differently and come to a contrasting result.