This testing was done by Popular Photography in 1973, so take that into account. This is on-axis flare, lens wide open.
Nevertheless, of all the lens tested then, the SMC Takumars came out way ahead of everybody else, and the lowest were: 50/1.4 @ 0.47% 55/1.8 @ 0.58% and 35/3.5 @ 0.62% Wiped out Zeiss and Nikkor, and a lot of widely acknowledged top quality lenses of the period. Not by much, but if one lens has 1.4% flare and some other lens has 0.7% flare, do you think YOU could tell the difference? Don't get carried away with raw data laboratory-generated numbers. Those differences are really SMALL! DOES give you bragging rights, tho'. <g> keith whaley Bruce Rubenstein wrote: > > There is a listing of lenses (including some Hexanon aka Konica) and > their % of flare here by mfg: http://medfmt.8k.com/mf/flare1.txt or > here by % http://medfmt.8k.com/mf/flare2.txt > The main piece is here: http://medfmt.8k.com/mf/flare.html > > BR > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Mike, > > Where would Konica be in your ranking of 'best lens coatings'? > > Marcello
