If you don't have a 40, I'd try it. That lens is all about versatility. It covers a lot of uses.
I'm going to try the 50 APO as a 'day' lens, not for its sharpness but simply because I loved its handling. The 50/1 reminds me of using a 500cm or SWC while the APO handles like an old 50/1.4 Nikkor - light and quick. The 50/1, though, owns the night, which is important to me (and it's better for portraits).
If you like 40mm (I do), you get the handling, night and stopped down day goodness. I wouldn't take it off the camera.
My mom's family had a more modest version of the last one (ca 1750). Hidden compartments in the fireplace mantle, 2 kitchens (summer & winter), hewn beams and a root cellar you could lock your sister in.
The house on the left was one wing of a big house that washed up on the 4th hole of the golf course during a hurricane in 1938. Grandpa put it on a barge and they moved it a mile, next door, and it became my aunt's house for the rest of her life. As grandpa got older, his farm shrank to a large garden. It's all stapled styrofoam McMansions now.
Dad had a IIIf with the 50/3.5, probably Kodachrome 25. 1955.
Jepser wrote:
Another thread reminded me of this lens, so Im cross-posting it here. Voigtländer Nokton D23mm on Nikon Zfc, resized but otherwise SOOC Jpegs.
You have both the Zf and Zfc; what is it like to manually focus the Zfc?
Jepser wrote:
It was perfectly fine until I got the Zf Longer answer later.
I think I know the answer... I'm about as quick now at focusing the Zf with a fast 50 as I was with the old FE (with zoom in confirmation, if you want). I'm not as swift as I could be, but was able to take a couple of nighttime keepers at f/1, walking(!). Trying the 50/2 now and it's a piece of cake to focus, after the f/1.
I'm not going back. I love the control.
(Keeping the 24-120 for AF duties and just using the CVs for everything else.)
but, how nice would the little Zfc be with the Zf's aids? <sigh>
taildraggin wrote:
I think I know the answer... I'm about as quick now at focusing the Zf with a fast 50 as I was with the old FE (with zoom in confirmation, if you want). I'm not as swift as I could be, but was able to take a couple of nighttime keepers at f/1, walking(!). Trying the 50/2 now and it's a piece of cake to focus, after the f/1.
I'm not going back. I love the control.
(Keeping the 24-120 for AF duties and just using the CVs for everything else.)
but, how nice would the little Zfc be with the Zf's aids? <sigh>...Show more →
Yes, it would be nice
Still the Zfc works realy good for architecture / landscape / macro and people being still. When there is movement or more people in the frame the Zf manual focus is just brilliant.
Im keeping the Zfz as a backup, it's still a good and compact camera. When I got it I stopped using the Z6 completely.
I've been using the 50 APO for 2 days rather than the 50/1. I'm still unsure (need more time/pix), but so far, IQ is much less an issue as handling (weight and focus ring diameter & throw). The 50/1 is holding up really well vs 50/2. The smaller, lighter 40 would make this harder, as it should handle quicker, like the 50/2.
Problem is, either one you get, you'll have a nagging suspicion you should have got the other.
Longer answer later.
