The article points out that getting fast autofocus requires changing the way
focus elements work in order to make them lighter and perhaps why the older
manual focus lenses have the character they do.
I never found the 300/4.5 all that good. You must have an exceptional one.
Wayne
At 2/6/2019 11:44 AM, Ken wrote:
>This discussion points out the very reason why I love some of the old
>OM Zuikos so much. The "lens character" of the 50/1.4, 35/2, 85/2,
>100/2.8, 100/2, and 300/4.5 are unlike anything else out there. Not to
>forget the 35-80/2.8.
>
>Any lens can be sharp, flat fielded, etc., but not every lens can
>impart it's "way of seeing the world" on the photographer quite the
>way these lenses do.
>
>Except, of course, lenses such as "Lens Baby" and "Pinhole" which take
>it to an extreme and are special-use only.
>
>As always, the "silvernosed" variety are best.
>
>AG Schnozz.
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