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Battle of the 50mm lenses: the contestants

Battle of the 50s: Contax 60 vs Minolta vs Olympus vs Pentax Takumars

Battle of the 50mm lenses: the contestants

The 50mm focal is one of the ones I like the most. Besides, it’s really hard to get a bad 50mm, because the manufacturers have found fool-proof recipes since the dawn of time. So even an old lens should perform splendidly, and the biggest differences with more modern designs should be lack of autofocus and …

Contax 60mm f/2,8 Makro S-Planar

Review: Contax 60mm f/2,8 Makro S-Planar

Contax 60mm f/2,8 Makro S-Planar

I’ve been thinking for a while to glue it on the Canon 5d mark II…and that should tell you something! It’s really the lens that you will reach in your bag more often that not, unless you shoot Nascar or Formula 1… Scary sharp, contrasty, doesn’t know what the flare is even if you are …

Review: Nikon 60mm f/2,8 Micro AF

Picture from Nikon.com Built like a little tank, but with a stiff focusing ring (compared to the manual version tested above), it’s not one of my favourite lenses. It is very sharp, whit an higher contrast respect the old Non-Ai version, but the images have a less pleasing and distinctive look. Not bad, indeed a …

Review: Nikon 55mm f/3,5 Micro Non-Ai

A very useful lens. On the DX format it will perform like a short macro tele. In both cases, FX or DX, the quality level of the lens is undoubtedly superb, super sharp and with a pretty cool color cast (but you may color balance easily if you wish to a warmer tone). In IR …

Review: Nikon 70-180mm f/4-5,6 Micro AF D IF ED

Big and heavy, but beautiful. You may obtain very crisp images from this lens, but you have to put it on a rock-solid tripod (or shoot whit a lot of light at high speeds), maybe interlocking something between the tripod mount and the lens itself to avoid vibrations (often a rollfilm plastic case filled with …