I have three 5.8cm, one like new, one nice, and one assembled from pieces, including loose lens elements. These lenses are well made but very easy to take apart.
The 148XXX is like new, the 155XXX is nice, the 156XXX is the Frankenstein. The 152xxx the donor corpse.
So the summary of the test is NOT ONE of my lenses focuses to infinity, they all focus a little short of infinity. I won't adjust them, anyone that uses this lens for landscape is nuts. One uses it for unique look, great bokeh, it is very nice for portrait rendition, looks very different at 1.4, 2.0 and 2.8 but that bokeh and smoothness makes for good portraits at any aperture.
All three were close enough inn performance that the Z6 could not tell them apart, would need more MPs for that.
I have three 5.8cm, one like new, one nice, and one assembled from pieces, including loose lens elements. These lenses are well made but very easy to take apart.
The 148XXX is like new, the 155XXX is nice, the 156XXX is the Frankenstein. The 152xxx the donor corpse.
So the summary of the test is NOT ONE focuses to infinity, they all focus a little short of infinity. I won't adjust them, anyone that uses this lens for landscape is nuts. One uses it for unique look, great bokeh, it is very nice for portrait rendition, looks very different at 1.4, 2.0 and 2.8 but that bokeh and smoothness makes for good portraits at any aperture.
All three were close enough inn performance that the Z6 could not tell them apart, would need more MPs for that.
I have three 5.8cm, one like new, one nice, and one assembled from pieces, including loose lens elements. These lenses are well made but very easy to take apart.
The 148XXX is like new, the 155XXX is nice, the 156XXX is the Frankenstein. The 152xxx the donor corpse.
So the summary of the test is NOT ONE focuses to infinity, they all focus a little short of infinity. I won't adjust them, anyone that uses this lens for landscape is nuts. One uses it for unique look, great bokeh, it is very nice for portrait rendition, looks very different at 1.4, 2.0 and 2.8 but that bokeh and smoothness makes for good portraits at any aperture.
All three were close enough inn performance that the Z6 could not tell them apart, would need more MPs for that.
I have three 5.8cm, one like new, one nice, and one assembled from pieces, including loose lens elements. These lenses are well made but very easy to take apart.
The 148XXX is like new, the 155XXX is nice, the 156XXX is the Frankenstein. The 152xxx the donor corpse.
So the summary of the test is NOT ONE focuses to infinity, they all focus a little short of infinity. I won't adjust them, anyone that uses this lens for landscape is nuts. One uses it for unique look, great bokeh, it is very nice for portrait rendition, looks very different at 1.4, 2.0 and 2.8 but that bokeh and smoothness makes for good portraits at any aperture.
All three were close enough inn performance that the Z6 could not tell them apart, would need more MPs for that.
I have three 5.8cm, one like new one nice, and one assembled from pieces, including loose lens elements. These lenses are well made but very easy to take apart.
The 148XXX is like new, the 155XXX is nice, the 156XXX is the Frankenstein. The 152xxx the donor corpse.
So the summary of the test is NOT ONE focuses to infinity, won't adjust them, anyone that uses this lens for landscape is nuts. One uses it for unique look, great bokeh and actually very nice for portrait rendition, looks very different at 1.4, 2.0 and 2.8 but that bokeh and smoothness makes for good portraits.
All three were close enough that the Z6 could not tell them apart, would need more MPs for that.
