Manual Focus Lenses

Tamron SP 300mm f/5.6 54B Lens Review

SUPERB!! I guess don't need to say more. I didn't find any weakness of this lens, color, sharpness, macro capability just excellent, if compare all this features with other 300 mm lens this is the number one. Better than Carl Zeiss Jena Sonnar 300mm f/4, Pentacon/Meyer Orestegor 300mm f/4 , Nikkor 300mm f/4.5 AI or Tair 3S.
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Carl Zeiss Biogon

A lens with an angle of view so wide that it can capture very much of the life around us in a single frame – this is what the name originally means.

Typical Biogon® lenses:

A focal lenght only half the diagonal of the film frame, produced with an almost symmetric lens design of surprising compactness, featuring the typical advantages of symmetrical lens designs: distortion is extremely well controlled, and so is color correction and image field flatness.
Combined with extreme precise manufacturing these properties make for an outstanding wide angle optic with high resolution, an excellent documentation tool.

These cameras takes 4,5V battery what is long time ago not in production.To find any is not an easy job. This article will guide throw how you can make an own replacement solution.
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Nikon Nikkor 85mm f2 AIS Lens Review

Small handy like an 50mm lens. Very well built professional lens like all Nikkor AIS. In my opinion ideal to use for portraits , not very sharp at wide open , but not soft at all. Excellent choice for portrait photography to make smooth skin tone.Some people has strong criticism about this lens , they said optical quality is not reach the highest level like 85mm Nikkor-H 1.8 have. I have both lens, I don't think so this lens weaker this is an excellent lens from every point of view.If you want ultimate sharpness take Nikkor 105mm f2.5 AIS instead of this lens. Quiet large f/2 maximum aperture is helpful in shooting indoor or in low light environment. Subtle blurring of the background for beautifully natural and evocative picture.Works perfect with any DSLR camera what can adopt Nikkor lenses and film cameras.I tested this lens with Olympus-E1 and Nikon FA.