any difference btw MF lens and 35mm Lens?

[xfathom69]

have anyone try shoot 35mm film in MF camera or using MF lenses on 35mm body (like Contax)?

Any difference in quality?

 

[YSLee]

MF lenses are design to cover a larger area (duh). As for the differences, I wouldn't know, but I guess it'll be like the same as with any piece of equipment.. There'll be the really good ones, and the really shite ones.

 

[roti]

i have try the pentax 645 lenses on the 135mm pentax Z series cameras not much diff ....only the weight la...

 

[Jed]

There are differences. Design priorities are different when you are designing lenses for larger formats. A quick dig around the web should yield a few answers.

 

[sriram]

Technically, MF lenses can be manufactured to deliver lower resolution compared to equivalent 35mm lenses since they project an image on to a much larger area of film. Hence... they can record more overall detail even though they are usually not as good as 35mm lenses when you compare 1 sq-cm of a MF neg to a 35mm neg.

If you're talking MTF, highly regarded 35mm lenses (primes, macro lenses, etc) usually rate as high as 4.6-4.8 but MF lenses typically rate around 3.2-3.8. Yet, they deliver the goods (better than 35mm) due to the large film size.

This is one reason why you can get cheap large format lenses for a couple of hundred dollars which can squish any 35mm outfit with your expensive 2000 dollar lens.