Yours are a lot larger too... oh and the colour is correct as much as the light and the camera (in standard mode) can make it anyway.
Dang, those got expensive fast! Bought my copy in January for $30 (and half of that cost was shipping from Japan).
Hope you're enjoying yours! I bought mine in a shop in London, but they had three so I could try them out and pick what I thought was the best one, which also turned out to be the cheapest, as they priced on when they received it, not quality. They had an £89 one with a lot of fungus inside and a £59 one where the focus ring had very little tension. Also the one I picked seemed to have way less CA wide-open than the others.
I do! BTW, who said telephoto lenses are just for the outdoors?
Mine is Sep 1979 (date code T901), and yes, AR coating is quite purple. Unfortunately the only thing I can compare it with is my New FD 50mm f/1.4 made in Apr 1980 which has rather brownish-orangey coating.
I agree.It's a great series Alan! 1&2 definitely B&W, the 3rd looks better with colour I think
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It depends on what you are shooting. My copy of the nfd 400mm f4 does exhibits a lot of Purple fringing wide open in high contrast situations with my G5 and Olympus cameras, but not much if the light source is behind me.
I can see a bit of purple fringing in the corners at f4. Not really a lot, but I use APS-C camera - it might be worse on FF. And by f5.6 fringing is almost completely gone.
