I had quite a few on his list - rather, there are few I never used. None that I
deeply regret. I would have liked to see some Leica glass in there though. And
from my own memory, my contax had a lens that said on it, the alternative was
yashica then. Maybe it was sold as contax over somewhere ???
Amities
Philippe, happy with his current 35mm f1.4 AF non-stab fuji which delivered as
well as the nikon AF 50mm f1.4 and the manual summicron 50mm when I tested them
against one another a couple of years ago. All sold but one ;-)
> Le 3 août 2019 à 21:39, Bill Pearce <billpearce@xxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
>
> I used to have on of those but got rid of it because I never came to grips
> with shooting a 50, but I remember it was very sharp and contrasty.
>
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> From: "Wayne Shumaker" <om3ti@xxxxxxxx>
> To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, August 3, 2019 6:24:23 AM
> Subject: Re: [OM] 20 minutes of your life you'll never get back...
>
> I still have a 50/1.8 with the high serial number. Not sure I trust petapixel
> opinions, but would not be surprised if this OM still out performed many
> legacy 50s.
>
> WayneS
>
> At 8/2/2019 12:20 PM, you wrote:
>> Knowing that there are quite a number of old OM shooters here, consider this
>> a warning. OK, past OM shooters, some may not be old.
>>
>>
>> A video (there's your first warning) on Peta Pixel today, where a
>> photographer/just average guy/fool test "vintage" 50mm lenses on a Fuji
>> digital. Consider this a warning, it's twenty minutes long, and there's
>> about 0 minutes of usable information on it, along with some troubling
>> conclusions, and a total lack of production values. There's also a strangely
>> good thing, though.
>>
>>
>> The , as the youngsters call it, takeaway is this: his "testing" is
>> subjective to the extreme and there is no objectivity. I remain still
>> unclear about what his purpose was, other than to generate clicks. He tests
>> a couple of dozen fifties from many makers with good to great reputations.
>> The final conclusion was the Nikkor 50/1.4 was king (really a legend) but
>> the first runner up was the 50/1.8 Zuiko! He liked it but it was severely
>> downgraded because the aperture ring clicks were "too loud and makes the
>> lens sound cheap." He says that otherwise it would have been #1.
>>
>>
>> I'l let you be the judge, but don't blame me if you feel foolish for
>> watching it.
>>
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