Adam Maas

le_alain: Sony switched to a standard ISO shoe some years ago, the NEX-6 was the first body with the standard shoe.

Older Sony bodies & Minolta bodies have an available adapter

No snake oil, just uncorrected SA due to the simple 4 element/3 group construction, which is more noticeable at larger apertures.

You can get the same effect with many cheap 60's & 70's fast short...

There were no AI versions of the 85/1.8. Nikon did sell the last batch of the non-AI with an AI kit installed (but it still isn't a full AI lens, as there's a couple mount features that an...

pdelux: Actually, Olympus did abandon OM users. There was over a decade between the last significant OM release and the introduction of the 4/3rds system. For much of that time you couldn't buy...

Actually, the mount standardization failed because most of the members did not adopt it.

Fuji continued to use F mount until they brought out their own X mount, Leica only sold rebranded...

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Umm, It looks a heck of a lot more like this:

http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/50mm-f2.htm

It resembles your 50/1.2 AI-S as much as it resembles a MD Rokkor (some similarities, but as many...

Yep, that's the one. Been using it since the F100.

It's a bit of a pain with AF variable-aperture lenses (since body-controlled aperture maintains when zooming and aperture ring control changes...

It looks like early non-AI Nikkors.

It doesn't even vaguely resemble an AI lens which would have a rubber focus ring and be all black except for a thin silver cheat ring.

Brand new as in this lens has been on the market for 10+ years and Voigtlander keeps changing the barrel but not the optics.

This is the 4th version of this lens, all are optically identical.

You are aware that there is a custom function to allow aperture control from the lens on all Nikon bodies with an AI follower tab and body-based aperture control

Having owned both lenses (albeit the original SLII version of the 58/1.4), you will not regret swapping Nikon's decidedly average performing 50/1.4 for the excellent 58