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charles.K wrote:
Hi Leonas I have had the M 50 Nocti f/1.0 (Mandler), M 50 Cron IV ( Mandler), M 50 Lux Asph, M 50 Cron DR with respect to Leica 50mm M lenses. Always the lenses I come back to and love shooting are the Mandler lenses. All of the Mandler lenses are surprisingly sharp at the point of focus and having superb roll out of focus roll off. These lenses have a low micro contrast and in harsh lighting they extend your DR.
The reason for the 50 Cron R (Mandler) 1984 is the rendering is unique, sharp yet there is a glow in out of focus roll off. The 50 Cron R is very cost effective. Surprisingly too the performance of the 50 Cron R I feel is enhanced on the D850. This is unique as most adapted lenses perform less than optimum.
With respect to the 58G, this an excellent lens and so is the superb 50 Art. The 58G is a specialist lens and very unique in its style. I am 50mm shooter so I love having unique style of rendering in each of the 50's.
Now I am looking for my next R ( Mandler) lens
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I agree with everything Charles says here, but I thought I would add that the R 50 cron II (the one Mandler designed) is optically almost identical to the M 50 cron IV and V (that Mandler also designed; these two M versions share the same optical formula but different housings, and the V is often called the pre-AA now or the pre-Asph). Mandler designed the R and M lens at almost the same time and they are very similar.
For your next R (Mandler) lens I would suggest the 80 f/1.4. It is a lovely lens and very similar to the M 75 f/1.4 I know you had (Mandler just tweaked the R 80 f/1.4 design to make it more compatible with a rangefinder when he created the M 75 f/1.4). I know you were disappointed with the M 75 lux on your Sony, but the R lenses with their much longer registration distance are much less sensitive to thickness of the cover glass. I think you would love the R 80 lux and the R 80 luxes are real historical bargains right now.
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