[rollei_list] Re: Another OBG
- From: Allen Zak <azak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 13:29:52 -0500
Regrets, this was to have been sent off list.
Allen Zak
On Nov 6, 2009, at 1:26 PM, Allen Zak wrote:
On Sep 26, 2009, at 12:21 AM, Mark Rabiner wrote:
Coincidently the Nikkor f2/85mm lens being discussed just happens to
be my
far my most used lens in the 80's and 90's. Of course it was tweaked
several
times in between I have that in my history of nikon glass book I was
(and
still am) a commercial photographer also doing some occasional photo
journalism and some other stuff doing most my stuff with Nikons. 33 %
with
Hasselblads. Sure I had 105's the 2.5's and the 2.8 macros but the 85
gave
me more breathing room in my studio on my white backdrop and was my
starting
out lens with every shoot ever did unless it was a strict headshot.
Later I got the 85 1.8 which was AF but have not parted with the old
AI f2
which was far more compact for a fraction of an f stop.
I could have one on one body with black and white and other other on
another
body with color. THE 85 F2 without a lens shade looks lust like a
normal
lens. On the street people don't feel at all like you are zoomed in
on them.
As far as Nikon goes soon I'll have a full frame DSLR and be shooting
all
that stuff I was shooting in the 80s again. The 105's and 85's. A
14mm 2.8.
A 28mm 1.4.
Me too on the 85 mm f2. The older I got, the fewer things I liked to
carry. In time, my carryout kit consisted of an FM2n with 28 f2.8 and
85 f2. Sometimes I would swap out for other lenses, but these were my
mainstay. I always liked it, but the lens had mixed reviews. To
explore the issue, I once did a comparison shoot on some fine grained
Fuji slide film between my 85 and a Zeiss Sonnar for Contax G
(borrowed). Through a powerful loupe or projected large through a
Leitz projection lens, a dozen observers detected no quality
differences from f4 on down.
It has been some years now that any of this mattered. Like you, I
currently await full frame sensors in affordable Nikons, but don't
think I'll return to manual focus antiquities. Well, maybe now and
then for the sake of nostalgia.
Allen Zak
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