I used to have on of those but got rid of it because I never came to grips with
shooting a 50, but I remember it was very sharp and contrasty.
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From: "Wayne Shumaker" <om3ti@xxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, August 3, 2019 6:24:23 AM
Subject: Re: [OM] 20 minutes of your life you'll never get back...
I still have a 50/1.8 with the high serial number. Not sure I trust petapixel
opinions, but would not be surprised if this OM still out performed many legacy
50s.
WayneS
At 8/2/2019 12:20 PM, you wrote:
>Knowing that there are quite a number of old OM shooters here, consider this a
>warning. OK, past OM shooters, some may not be old.
>
>
>A video (there's your first warning) on Peta Pixel today, where a
>photographer/just average guy/fool test "vintage" 50mm lenses on a Fuji
>digital. Consider this a warning, it's twenty minutes long, and there's about
>0 minutes of usable information on it, along with some troubling conclusions,
>and a total lack of production values. There's also a strangely good thing,
>though.
>
>
>The , as the youngsters call it, takeaway is this: his "testing" is subjective
>to the extreme and there is no objectivity. I remain still unclear about what
>his purpose was, other than to generate clicks. He tests a couple of dozen
>fifties from many makers with good to great reputations. The final conclusion
>was the Nikkor 50/1.4 was king (really a legend) but the first runner up was
>the 50/1.8 Zuiko! He liked it but it was severely downgraded because the
>aperture ring clicks were "too loud and makes the lens sound cheap." He says
>that otherwise it would have been #1.
>
>
>I'l let you be the judge, but don't blame me if you feel foolish for watching
>it.
>
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