Vintage still working KONICA camera lens and casing 28mm f3.5

SPECS Year: ~1975 Focal Length: 28mm Maximum Aperture: 3.5 Minimum Aperture: 16 Aperture Blades: 6 Weight: 195 grams Filter Size: 55mm Angle of View: 75 degrees Minimum Focusing Distance: 0.3 meters (specs courtesy of here) This was another lens that was in a camera bag of my grandfathers. His camera bags consisted of two Canon and one Konica SLR bodies and pretty much the same lenses in each. He obviously had certain focal lengths he liked since both camera bodies had 28mm, 50mm and 135mm prime lenses. The only difference was there was an additional 35mm f2.0 in his Canon bag. However this little write-up covers my experience with the Konica 28mm f3.5 prime lens. Since this lenses widest aperture is 3.5 versus 2.8, it is noticeably smaller and lighter than my Canon FD 24mm f2.8. Both are well built, have solid aperture rings and smooth focus. What’s nice about this lens is the size and weight savings. This is the smallest and lightest vintage lens I own as of this write-up. In the short time I have used this lens, I’ve been impressed with the results. For being a very low cost vintage lens … it holds up quite well. I have used it as a casual walk around lens, so I usually have the aperture at f4 or f5.6 and the resulting images are quite sharp. These old primes lenses don’t perform well wide open, but stopped down one or two stops and they usually are great.