When the lenses are soft wide open, they are hard to focus.
C.H.Ling
james olson wrote:
>
> As I really enjoy handling and using different photography
> equipment, I thought I'd share a quick photo bit... I recently found
> an old Nikon F series lens (Nippon Kogaku), 55mm/1.2 in a Pawn Shop
> for $40..... So, I bought a user Nikkormat Ft off E-bay for
> cheap........ The camera is nice to hold, heavy, incredibly
> sturdy. But just so much more difficult and non-sensical in
> comparison to the OM series. Funny: the Nikon with the 55/1.2 is
> tougher to focus than my OM-1n with 50/3.5..........
>
> I find the Zuiko 50/3.5 images really just *crack* into focus.
> (More so than even the 50/1.8 Olympus.) Why would that be? I
> always thought faster lenses were easier to focus....
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