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Reviews (3)
17 January 2012
Great build quality, pleasing images, excellent "retro" feel. Love it.
It charms you before you even take your first shot. The build quality reminds you of the solidly built Nikon lenses of the 70s, or the current manual focus Zeiss lenses. That's no surprise, Cosina builds both these Voigtlander lenses and those Zeiss lenses in the same factory.
It's a touchy lens to focus at f1.4 on a D90, even with a split image screen, but the f1.4 and f2 images have good sharpness in the (very shallow) plane of focus, and a smooth, fairly neutral bokeh in the background. I wouldn't put it up against what an 85mm f1.4 does on a fullframe camera, but it certainly holds its own against an 85mm f1.8.
The focus action, though, is perfect, no backlash, the silky feeling comes from precise machining, not making things "loose" and packing them with grease. There's about a half turn for full range, very retro, nothing like the "short throw" manual focus lenses that became so popular in the 70s.
Contrast is also very good, especially for a "legacy" design, and flare resistance is excellent. Looking into the lens at angles, and you can see why, the interior has more really flat, non-shiny black than typical lenses, and some nice ridged baffles. More examples of the care they put into the design.
All in all, it's a fun lens in the studio or on a walk-about, and a heck of a bang for the buck.
13 December 2019
Finally finished that DIC/pol turret!
Got the Nikon Opti 88 IC inspection scope years ago, and located 210mm CF objectives that matched my working style (5x, 10x, 20x ELWD, 40x ELWD, 100x ELWD).
One of the BD objectives was a DIC. Saw a DIC turret one day, and the game was on. Bit by bit, got the Opti set up with all DIC objectives. The 5x has always been a favorite, good to the edges of the field, very little scatter in dark field mode, huge working distance. The DIC version performs similarly (it should, it's just a low-stress version of the original). It's also tolerable in epi mode.
27 November 2019
The real deal, fits like fingers in a glove.
You hear a lot about "imitation" Nikon parts. This one is the real deal, Nikon quality, clean molds, all numbers on front and back, and it fits my old and new teleconverters smoothly and stays on securely.
But this one cost less than any camera dealer I know.