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Jack of Most Trades, Master of None

Started Feb 11, 2022 | User reviews thread
Rock and Rollei Senior Member • Posts: 2,902
Re: Jack of Most Trades, Master of None
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I really like this lens. I've owned an awful lot of 80-90mm lenses over the years - in EF fit, the 85mm f1.8 and the 85mm f1.2 L II; the Zeiss 85mm f1.4 Planar for Contax/Yashica; Zeiss 85mm f2.8 Sonnar for Rollei QBM; 80mm f1.8 Carl Zeiss Pancolar in M42 and Praktica Bayonet; 90mm f3.5 Voigtlander Apo-Lanthar in Leica M39 - and a few others. Every lens I've mentioned is special in some way - none are exactly perfect, but I love the look from all of them. And the RF 85 f2 is yet another slightly flawed gem. Produces some lovely images that just as nice as anything they can produce. Yes, focus speed isn't its strong suit, but I've not had any problem with it since I started religiously using the focus limiter switch - it's worked fine for everything I've thrown at it.  It's reasonably light, although not especially compact, focuses close - yes, it's a jack of all trades. Master of none? True, but then the same goes for all the other lenses I've mentioned - there's not a clear winner among them.

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