Excellent sharpness and contrast at all apertures - even wide open. Excellent drawing. Accurate and well saturated colour (Provia/Velvia). Provides very natural-looking perspective similar to 35mm lens on 35mm SLR (61 degree angle of view).

Surprisingly bulky. 82mm filter thread! Maximum aperture of f4.5 gives rather dim viewfinder image in poor light.

If you want a 'wide-standard' lens this works well -as long as you can put up with limited maximum aperture and 82mm filters.

Customer Service

Not tried yet - reputedly quite pricey in UK.

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65mm for Mamiya C330

*very sharp
*very pleasing color rendition
*holds its performance very well across the aperture range
*gives a natural perspective, just like a normal lens, but with a wider angle of view
*smooth focus action

*As all P67 lenses, it's rather large
*expensive 82mm filters

This lens is a dream for landscape photography. I use it as my "wide standard" lens, my preferred choice when I can take only one lens with me.
It can hold it's own against Hasselblad's comparable 60mm at a fraction of the cost.

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Hasselblad Distagon CF 60mm