Good. That's the sort of comment I was looking for. I didn't realize
he was using a manual focus lens against an autofocus lens and it could
have been not well focused. On the other hand, he says he was shooting
from about 1/4 mile at f/8. The hyperfocal distance at 85mm and f/8 is
only 89 feet or 134 feet if I adopt the CoC for the D200 vs 35mm size.
So he's got to be way off to show any considerable error.
Chuck Norcutt
Winsor Crosby wrote:
> Just a point on Rockwell's superb Nikon lens, from a respected
> independent reviewer of Nikon lenses:
>
> "The replacement for the venerable f/1.8 lens was much smaller and
> very compact, but unfortunately the optical quality is nowhere in the
> league of its predecessor. In particular I found pictures taken with
> the 85/2 to be dull and life-less, and images took on a greyish cast
> as well. I'm aware of reports claiming this lens is an excellent
> perfomer and am at a loss to explain this discrepancy in opinions
> (I've tried several 85/2's and they all behaved in a similar manner."
>
> It came out in 1977 which makes it a 31 year old manual focus lens
> being focused on an AF camera the screen of which has no focusing aids.
>
> As for the Canon lens, the EOS system was introduced in 1987. So even
> if this lens was the first one to fit an EOS camera it is ten years
> newer than the Nikon lens. Another dismal, sloppy mess of an article
> from Mr. Rockwell.
>
>
> Winsor
> Long Beach, California, USA
>
>
>
>
> On / April 19, 2008 CE, at 6:09 PM, C.H.Ling wrote:
>
>>> C.H.Ling wrote:
>>>> To me, I will only treat this as a subjective personal opinion.
>>>>
>>>> - His assumption about the poorer resolving power of the EF70-200
>>>> F4 than
>>>> his N85/2 is not proofed, many zooms perform very well at center
>>>> when
>>>> stopped down.
>
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