In other words, we should remember that our beloved Zuikos are not immune to
good old fashioned wear and tear which does affect lens performance.
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From: jlamadoo, home account <jlamadoo@xxxxxxxx>
To: Olympus_List <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 3:46 PM
Subject: [OM] Difference Between the 50mm Zuiko Lenses
> Okay, the other day I was discussing my perception of a lack of sharpness
in
> the 28mm /f3.5 and two people chimed in assuring me that their examples
were
> excellent. (I think one lister used the word "superb".)
>
> I've been catching up on digests tonight and noted that the widely
respected
> 28mm /f2.0 was disappointing to one lister who favored a Zeiss
replacement.
>
> Today, I'm seeing that my sharp, single coated 50 / 1.4 is being called a
> poor performer. I think we're all smart enough to know that a rattling
lens
> may have decentered elements and that we're not complaining about "broken"
> lenses.
>
> What's going on? At first I thought some of us had higher (uhhh....)
> expectations than others but now I'm not so sure. Interestingly, the
> disagreement does not involve the variable individual abilities when
> handholding of teles.
>
> Has Pop Photo, Life, National Geo, or anyone else ever tested 30 examples
of
> anything to get a fix on potential variations? To be clear, I'm not
> criticising anyone, especially those who have tested lenses. I'm grateful
> for the knowledge passed down from others but I also took lots of
statistics
> and we seem to have very little hard data on variablity. Ideas?
>
>
> Lama
>
>
>
> >>>>>I have another SC with S/N 5xx,xxx and black nose, it performs very
> well and seem to have the same design as my 1,100,000 as both have
> same diameter front and rear element and same weight. I also had a
> 8xx,xxx MC which is poorer than all 50/1.4 I have except the silver
> nose one. All the 50/1.4 I compared were in great shape and very
> clean.
>
>
>
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