Full Kamlan 28mm f/1.4 E-mount lens review by Marc Alhadeff: “the best Kamlan lens produced so far”

Marc Alhadeff from SonyAlphablog tested the new Kamlan 28mm f/1.4 E-mount lens which is on sale today at Kickstarter:

The Kamlan 28mm F1.4 is a surprise and is certainly the best Kamlan lens produced so far. It gives very good results for numerous usages

• For street photography and half body portrait , The Kamlan 28mm F1.4 is giving very nice results with very good bokeh and very good central sharpness
• Closed down e.g. for landscape, you get very sharp pictures on the entire frame

Pros

• very good bokeh and soft background blur
• Nice color rendition and good contrast
• 3D effect when shooting wide open
• Good build construction and easy handling
• Good to excellent central sharpness
• Excellent corners when stopped down to F8
• Lens fall off goes away as from F2.8
• Price (>200$)
• Size

Average

• Chromatic aberrations
• Distorsion visible but easily correctable in Lightroom

Con’s

• Manual lens
• soft corners wide open

At 150$ on Kickstarter , it is a real bargain

Its closest competitors is the Sigma 30mm F1.4 DC DN that has AF but that is costing 2 times the Kamlan price (380 euros)