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Canon L lens failures

Started Mar 4, 2015 | Discussions thread
NancyP Veteran Member • Posts: 6,608
Re: Roger Cicala has failure stats

Well to be exact, I have one suboptimal AIS Nikkor 50 f/1.2 that I bought as "ugly" (It has bad engraving on it) for cheapish on eBay. When I got it, the lens was optically great (yay!) but the focusing helicoid had lost some grease, so there's no silky feel and dampening as typical for the better manual focus Nikkors. It still focuses fine, it doesn't feel right (it feels like a cheapo lens), so I live with it because the optics are great. No, not as great as a Sigma Art 50 at f/1.4. The Nikkor is a pre-aspherical design, a classic double-Gauss "Planar"-type design, so there's some aberrations at f/1.2, but you can use those aberrations for some types of photos. The AIS Nikkor 50 1.2 is a fine landscape lens at f/2.8 to f/8.

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