[OM] Seriously, who needs a Noctilux?

[usher99]

I strongly believe the Samyang (rokinon) 85/1.4 aspheric is a "wide 
open lens." It is quite cheap as things go with excellent performance 
wide open. It massively punches above its weight ( added esp for Moose 
as he likes that characterization ;-)) ) wide open but is destroyed by 
the competition stopped down. The MTF does improve a bit stopped down 
but is not competitive there. It's bokeh and wide open performance are 
its selling points.

The Lens "Don King,"
 Mike


As to the "improving while stopping down" aspect. I'm not sure I
totally agree with you there. I'm not a lens designer so I can't speak
to specifics, but there are lenses which are known to be "wide-open"
lenses and underperform other lenses when stopped down. I think Leica
makes a couple of those.

AG

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