Why Photographers are Obsessed with the Brightin Star 28mm f2.8 Lens

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In this video, I'm going to be discussing the Brigtin Star 28mm f2.8 lens and why photographers are so obsessed with it. This lens is a M Mount lens and can be used on Leica cameras, but is also adaptable to other cameras. This makes it one the smallest lens available, and the quality is outstanding for a lens of this size.

If you're a photographer and you're in the market for a small, high quality lens, then you need to check out the Brigtin Star 28mm f2.8 lens. It's perfect for shooting landscape or city photography and is definitely one of the best lenses out there!

[smoloms]

That’s the pancakiest pancake lens I have ever seen

[Braindriller]

Never thought the dentist from Hangover movie had such knowledge in photography

[SAM-bgbf]

This lens design looks like ancient mystery lock and I like it.

[redguy]

The MS-Optics Apoqualia is the original which is much lighter and is even faster at f/2.0. This lens has been around for many years and has gone through revisions already. It also has the same field curvature effect and the screw-in cap. The newest Apoqualia v3 has a f/1.7 opening. I do not own the said lenses because I can't use them on Bessa cameras. The ultimate M-mount bodycap lens is the Hipolion 19mm f/2.8 which is inspired by the Zeiss Hologon but with a soft-focus feature anywhere below f/8.0.

This is definitely a different lens which has its design language pulled from MS-Optics but its an interesting effort nonetheless.

[joiscara]

I have an Industar 50-2 for my Minolta X-500, and it’s the one travel lens I use for black and white street photography and some portraits too. 28mm is my go-to for landscape photography. I’m really intrigued by the Brighten Star.

[mattiseppanen]

great video again Mark! Love your videos as your personality and the way you present things are very unique. Keep it up :)

[HussainAlkumaish]

Nice review, I was looking at this lens few days ago.
One thing to point out: M mount cameras were always mirrorless.. all rangefinders are mirrorless.

[phillipallaway]

I considered this lens and the new Voigtlander 28 f2.8 but went for the Voigtlander 28mm f2ii in the end. Nice photos of Melbourne Mark. Thanks for the vid.

[RobinHoller]

At 8:20 you're saying due to the field curvature, corner subjects in the background are in focus ... that was surprising to me. I got some lenses with strong field curvature myself (e.g. 21mm Zeiss Milvus). In my case, the curvature always appears like a segment of a sphere surface, but seen from the center of the sphere, not from the outside. I hope that's understandable, I'm talking about the shape of the focus plane, and it being convex or concave. Is the field of this lens inverted?

[dan.allen.digital]

Very interesting lens. Did you try it adapted to a Fuji Body? The crop sensor taking only the center portion of the image circle may eliminate some of the field curvature issues. Also 28mm on a Fuji body is a really nice focal length. Fuji actually makes an M mount adapter

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Quick note: if you want a M mount to E/Z/R/X mount adapter that looks a lot more consistent with the appearance of this lens, TTArtisans makes a line of M mount adapters with a pleasant taper all in black and metal. While a matte black rather than the gloss of the lens, the adapter doesn’t have the chunky appearance or sudden silver color other M mount adapters tend to have.

[carlmcneill]

From an artistic standpoint this is an interesting lens. I do a lot of landscape photography and I focus stack a lot of my photos. I've recently got into street photography. Having two things, that apart from each other, in futures while everything else is a little out of focus intrigues me. So does having a corner in focus and the center out of focus. I bet I could find a way to use a lens like this for something different. I looked on their site and they have some other lenses that are very cheap I might want to try out. Thanks for the video.

[klausmoritzpeitzsch]

Back in the day Minolta produced a 24mm lens with a variable field curvature (VFC) which allowed to change from concave over plane to convex field curvature. Today it is rare and a collectors item.

[senorchivo]

Reminds me a bit of the Lensbaby stuff, but less gimmicky. This actually seems usable in comparison when going for that vintage/retro vibe

[michaelturk]

I just ordered one! Thank you Mark for your review. It reminds me of the tiny pancake designer lens (SMC Pentax-DA 40mm f2.8) that came with my first mirrorless camera, the Pentax K-01.

[jlwilliams]

11:16 "Who is this lens for?" Well, I'll tell you: It's for people who use a Pixii, the French-made, M-mount, 26-megapixel digital rangefinder camera. I realize that Pixii owners on this channel probably consist of me and exactly zero other people... but this lens is GREAT on a Pixii. The Pixii uses a Super 35/APS-C sensor, so the field curvature thing is never an issue because the out-of-focus corners are outside the frame. The Pixii has a 28mm finder frame that shows the lens' field of view very accurately, and the rangefinder couples smoothly. And between the lens' compact size and the Pixii's body shape, it makes a package I can easily shove into a pocket of my messenger bag and take anywhere. (Just don't lose that silly bottle-cap-size lens cap, because the front element is *very* exposed without it.) Two optical observations: (1) At f/2.8, highlights have a slight halo around them, which is imperfect but which I happen to think is pretty. (2) With the sun in or near the frame you definitely will get round yellow or purple flare spots; again, imperfect but it doesn't bother me. I'm thinking this lens plus the very small Voigtlander 40mm f/2.8 would make an ideal walking-around outfit.

[Jacquesali_wav]

The Industar 50mm has somewhat of the same aperture ring. I like the style. This seems like an amazing lens, I might have to pull the plug and purchase this. Thanks for the review. 🙌

[LTPottenger]

It's amazing to see a lens this small that works well.

[ArminHirmer]

Uhh nice one. Will work great on my Sigma FPL, Sony A7C and of course my old Ricoh GXR with M mount module!

[OchaFauzan]

Mark, i think this is going to be a total bangerz with Nikon ZF