> Sorry Fred, I should have looked at mine. > I took the name directly from Boz's site. > You are correct, it DOES NOT say ED on the lens.
Hi, Don. I am surprised that Boz claims that it has "extra-low dispersion element(s)", and that he names it as and "ED" lens. It certainly does not come labeled as an ED lens. I have heard (here on the PDML) of conjecture that it does have a low dispersion element, but I don't know what proof exists for that. As for its performance, I have one that I bought "new old stock", still in the box, and it never seemed to live up to the reputation that some wanted it to have. I originally tried it out on film (manually focusing it, but I recently tried it as an af lens on my DS, and it still doesn't impress me. Sample-to-sample variance has been claimed for the differing opinions on this lens, and so maybe that's it, and maybe I just got a bad one... Fred
