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OM 50mm f1.4. A beautifully made lens with a
fine precision movement feel to the focusing ring that has just enough
resistance that makes it a joy to focus. None of your Russian tank
grease here, these Olympus lenses have a lovely white, low viscosity
grease on the helix. On the Olympus lens I opened it was as fresh as
the day it left the factory, usually you can expect to be scraping crud
out of the threads on most lenses. The F stop ring is at the front
which takes some getting used to, on a lens this small usually it is a
rear aperture ring.
Wide open centre performance is above average, of the 5 50mm 1.4
lenses I have I would rate this as 3rd best after the Zeiss Planar and
the Yashica ML for sharpness, but slightly better than the Super
Takumar (non smc). Stopped down this has good sharpness but not
outstanding like the zeiss. A nice lens for general use especially if
you are expecting to have some evening shots without a tripod, you may
just sneak some shots on a high ISO. I have also used this for shooting
bands playing in a club with minimal lighting. It is a good solid
general purpose lens.
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Introduced in 1979 to accompany the Nikon EM and updated with a chrome ring in 1981 (mine is the earlier type).
The 100mm E Series makes a cheap alternative to the highly regarded 105 2.5. Whilst the rings are plastic the barrel is metal and focusing is smooth and precise with the lovely viscosity of classic manual Nikkors - it's far better than the shorter E Series primes. Aperture stops are easily found, but the ring is a little sloppy in feel. Usual colour hyperfocal distance marks and IR mark are present.
The lens is extremely compact and lightweight, only a little deeper than non-pancake standard lenses. My example isn't multi-coated, I've yet to establish whether later versions were.
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I made a list to show the rarest lenses on mflenses.com, I decided to restrict this list to mflenses.com, because too many rare lens available on the world and I would show each of them gallery and review not just a dry list from lenses and some boring technical data what you can find everywhere.
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This is the second and last version of this lens, much more lightweight than the predecessor and also completely changed (and much improved) optically.
After this lens, Leica produced the APO version, which is yet a different design, and a superior lens, which however costs much more.
With it's 850 gr, the Elmarit-R 180 second version is amongst the lightest 180mm lenses of the same speed. Consider for instance that the last version of the Carl Zeiss Jena 2.8/180 Sonnar weights 1400 gr. (and it's also much bulkier).
The optical performance of this Elmarit is within the standard of the last versions of Leica -R lenses.
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What can I say about this lens superb ? Outstanding ? Perhaps these are the right words, I suppose every body expect phenomenal quality from a professional level Nikkor lens. You won't be disappointed! Exceptional good lens from every point of view , very well built mechanically and optically both. I didn't see any weakness of this lens, photography really a joy , easy to focusing , produce laser sharp superb colored images.Slightly better lens than other famous companies like Tamron SP 90 or Kiron 105mm f2.8. Sure this is very subjective opinion.
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