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Archive 2009Rokkor 58/1.2 love thread
p.1 #1Rokkor 58/1.2 love thread
Guys!
I think this little beauty has gotten to little attention lately. We need another love thread.
Please post your best work with it.
A
I think this little beauty has gotten to little attention lately. We need another love thread.
Please post your best work with it.
A
Oct 27, 2009 at 02:29 AM
p.1 #2Rokkor 58/1.2 love thread
hi,
another love story:
once i did love my 58er,
but now i love my sigma more.
r
another love story:
once i did love my 58er,
but now i love my sigma more.
r
Oct 27, 2009 at 02:42 AM
p.1 #4Rokkor 58/1.2 love thread
I tried the Rokkor
hoping for a new love
I found my true love
holding my Zuiko 50/1.2
hoping for a new love
I found my true love
holding my Zuiko 50/1.2
Oct 27, 2009 at 02:56 AM
p.1 #6Rokkor 58/1.2 love thread
I love photographing my love with my love;
http://www.cogitech.ca/photos/Rokkor/instant_portrait.jpg
This is still my favourite 50-ish lens, by far.
http://www.cogitech.ca/photos/Rokkor/instant_portrait.jpg
This is still my favourite 50-ish lens, by far.
Oct 27, 2009 at 05:41 AM
p.1 #7Rokkor 58/1.2 love thread
Another that I like, wide open again:
http://www.cogitech.ca/photos/Rokkor/img_0035_1a.jpg
http://www.cogitech.ca/photos/Rokkor/img_0035_1a.jpg
Oct 27, 2009 at 05:47 AM
p.1 #8Rokkor 58/1.2 love thread
In low light... http://www.cogitech.ca/photos/Rokkor/img_8370.jpg
Oct 27, 2009 at 05:49 AM
p.1 #9Rokkor 58/1.2 love thread
I've always like this one, too...
http://www.cogitech.ca/photos/Rokkor/img_1828.jpg
http://www.cogitech.ca/photos/Rokkor/img_1828.jpg
Oct 27, 2009 at 05:52 AM
p.1 #10Rokkor 58/1.2 love thread
Well, I sold mine a while back and regret doing so. There is something very special about this Rokkor.
Oct 27, 2009 at 05:53 AM
p.1 #12Rokkor 58/1.2 love thread
I found some pics in ridiculous flickr size 
will post some more later:
f/2ish:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3238/3059473313_e8afae57a2_o.jpg
f/4
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3165/3059465281_450255bf2f_o.jpg
wide open
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3230/3059465327_0779414f49_o.jpg
Taken with my (at the time) XTi.
will post some more later:f/2ish:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3238/3059473313_e8afae57a2_o.jpg
f/4
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3165/3059465281_450255bf2f_o.jpg
wide open
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3230/3059465327_0779414f49_o.jpg
Taken with my (at the time) XTi.
Oct 27, 2009 at 06:46 AM
p.1 #13Rokkor 58/1.2 love thread
I still have 2 of these and enjoy using them a lot. There's other interesting f/1.2-ish 50s out there but the Rokkor has a lot of specialness to it. I'll post the modern photo lens tests soon. It was the best 50-ish f/1.2 they had ever tested, from what I have seen.
-Ed
-Ed
Oct 27, 2009 at 06:59 AM
p.1 #14Rokkor 58/1.2 love thread
Ed Sawyer wrote:
I still have 2 of these and enjoy using them a lot. There's other interesting f/1.2-ish 50s out there but the Rokkor has a lot of specialness to it. I'll post the modern photo lens tests soon. It was the best 50-ish f/1.2 they had ever tested, from what I have seen.
-Ed
Maybe they had my copy.
I still have 2 of these and enjoy using them a lot. There's other interesting f/1.2-ish 50s out there but the Rokkor has a lot of specialness to it. I'll post the modern photo lens tests soon. It was the best 50-ish f/1.2 they had ever tested, from what I have seen.
-Ed
Maybe they had my copy.
Oct 27, 2009 at 07:15 AM
p.1 #15Rokkor 58/1.2 love thread
Mmm... They liked the later version *much* more than the earlier one, for whatever reason. The one they loved was I think a 259xxx(?), I'll have to look it up. It was a rubber-grip version.
Oct 27, 2009 at 09:55 AM
p.1 #16Rokkor 58/1.2 love thread
Ed Sawyer wrote:
Mmm... They liked the later version *much* more than the earlier one, for whatever reason. The one they loved was I think a 259xxx(?), I'll have to look it up. It was a rubber-grip version.
That just goes to show, once again, that there is some serious sample variation in the Rokkor 58/1.2. I never had a rubber grip version (6 copies) that matched my 200xxxx. A few of them were close...
But even an "average" sample of this lens is relatively excellent (relative to other 50s I have tried, that is) IMO.
Mmm... They liked the later version *much* more than the earlier one, for whatever reason. The one they loved was I think a 259xxx(?), I'll have to look it up. It was a rubber-grip version.
That just goes to show, once again, that there is some serious sample variation in the Rokkor 58/1.2. I never had a rubber grip version (6 copies) that matched my 200xxxx. A few of them were close...
But even an "average" sample of this lens is relatively excellent (relative to other 50s I have tried, that is) IMO.
Oct 27, 2009 at 09:58 AM
p.1 #17Rokkor 58/1.2 love thread
I'm a joker
I'm a smoker
I'm a stopped down Rokkor
I sure don't want to hurt no one
http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s188/fat_mat_labatt/FM%20Forum/_MG_7862.jpg
Oct 27, 2009 at 11:01 AM
p.1 #19Rokkor 58/1.2 love thread
^Awesome stuff as usual, especially 1 and 3 
-Kyle
-Kyle
Oct 27, 2009 at 02:57 PM
p.1 #20Rokkor 58/1.2 love thread
Kyle Nordeen wrote:
^Awesome stuff as usual, especially 1 and 3
-Kyle
+1
CP
^Awesome stuff as usual, especially 1 and 3
-Kyle
+1
CP
Oct 27, 2009 at 03:18 PM