On Wednesday August 11 2004 10:43 am, Kotsinadelis, Peter (Peter) wrote: > FWIW, most of your 85mm lenses and 50mm are basically Zeiss Planar copies, > even the Canon lenses and Ls too. Depending on how well the manufacturer > copied the design the lens can be sharp. Some are better than others but > you would be hard pressed to tell the difference. One of the best made was > the old Konica Hexanon 85mm F1.8. A superb optic even Leicaphiles noted as > being excellent. Take a look at the designs of your 50 and 85 and even > 100mm lenses and you will see what I mean. BTW, the 50mm on the old Nikon > SLRs in the 60s was a Sonnar design.
I believe you're correct on the designs, but of course, there was a lot of difference in the quality of the glass. I wish I had the specs. from then, but the sharpest 85mm was made by Minolta.....they made their own crucibles then. Even Nikon and Canon (then) didn't. Anyway, there were a number of good 85s and IMHO, it's the best studio (at least) portrait lens. Fred -- "Running Windows on a Pentium is like getting a Porsche but only being able to drive it in reverse with the handbrake on." * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
