Kistar 55mm F1.2 lens announced and tested on the Sony A7II!

Kinoshita Optical announced the new Kistra 55mm f/1.2 lens. It comes in Contax-Yashica mount but it has been designed to be used on Full Frame mirrorless camera. The lens costs about $1,460 and can be bought on [shoplink 40987 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink]. To use it on your A7 camera you will have to buy the [shoplink 40990 ebay]Yashica to E-mount adapter (Click here)[/shoplink]

The picture on top shows the A7Ii with the new lens. If you wonder what’s the “ornamental” stuff well there is a Biker-friendly ;) strap you get at Rakuten. And the case is the Ulysses case you get on eBay in [shoplink 37912 ebay]Black (Click here)[/shoplink], [shoplink 37913 ebay]Blue (Click here)[/shoplink] or [shoplink 37914 ebay]Brown (Click here)[/shoplink].

Here are the lens specs and MTF graph:

DC.watch posted the first test on the Sony A7II. Here are the images of the lens on the camera (Click on it to enlarge):

And here some image samples all shot at max f/1.2 aperture (Click on it to enlarge):

Image samples on the A7s can be seen here: http://www.kinoshita-optical.com/gallery.html

Kistar 55mm f/1.2 can be purchased on here on [shoplink 40987 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink].