Description
The "Bright Star 28mm" likely refers to the Brightin Star 28mm F2.8 Full Frame Pancake Lens, a compact, manual focus lens primarily designed for Leica M-mount cameras but adaptable to many mirrorless systems.
Key Features and Specifications
Design: It is an ultra-thin "pancake" style lens, with a protruding body thickness of only 9.9mm and a weight of 125g, making it highly portable for street photography. It features a classic, retro design with a black lacquered brass build.
Aperture: The lens has a variable aperture ranging from f/2.8 to f/16 and uses 10 aperture blades.
Focus: It is a manual focus lens and is fully coupled with Leica M rangefinders, allowing for a good manual focusing experience. The minimum focus distance is 70cm.
Optical Construction: It features an optical structure of 6 elements in 5 groups.
Image Quality: Reviewers note that it produces legitimately nice images with good center sharpness but the image quality drops off noticeably in the extreme corners, even when stopped down. It can also be prone to some flare issues.
These reviews evaluate the optical quality, focusing experience, and mount compatibility of the Brightin Star 28mm f/2.8 lens:
