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Subject: [OM] Re: When you talk 50mm lens performance, define the lens! - was The Harrison Ross Poll
From: Earl Dunbar <edunbar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 06:40:57 -0500
I also have a miJ for comparison.  Don't know the sn of my 1.4.

Earl

Moose wrote:
> 
> edunbar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> ><>
> >What has been interesting is the number of people who have listed the 50 
> >f1.4 as a favourite.  Now that I have one I'll have to give it a real 
> >workout.
> >
> One of my pet peeves is generic preformance references to the 50/1.4 and 
> 50/1.8. If you look at Gary's tests, you will see huge differences 
> between early and late versions. Beyond that, Gary privately tested a 
> very early 50/1.4 with radioactive glass. He found it quite sharp in the 
> center, better than later SCs and close to the MC versions, but softer 
> at the edges than the MC versions. My very early 50/1.8 isn't a very 
> sharp or contrasty lens, but the last versions of the 1.8 are excellent.
> 
> >Earl
> >
> 
> >fgnzalez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> ><>
> >
> > 3. Nikkor 43~86 - didn't like it either.
> 
> This went through 2 or 3 versions, never great, but the first was pretty 
> poor.
> 
> > 4. Nikkor 50mm/1.4 was better than my G.Zuiko.
> 
> See Above. Nikk*r 50/1.4 also went through design/performance evolution, 
> still is in AF versions.
> 
> Moose
> 
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