First “serious” Kowa 8.5mm/f2.8 review.

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The Kowa 8.5mm f/2.8 is now shipping in [shoplink 49544 ebay]Japan (on eBay)[/shoplink]. And a very first KOWA 8.5mm/f2.8 review has been posted in Chinese at m43lens.blogspot.hk. These are the reviewers conclusions:

– Vignetting is about 1.5EV at maximum aperture
– Surprisingly very low distortion for such a wide angle lens
– Very good resolution
– a bit of purple fringing a wide aperture
– Has some Astral granular spots