Re: Nikon Zf as a platform for adapted/native manual focus lenses
Thanks for the overall good video, p.13 #12. I like this guy's approach, he is what I call an 'image firster', like me and many CV users. Rather than spending talk time on the checklist items and giving a total based on whether the pluses and minuses add up, we look at the images the lens produces and if it impresses, the other stuff can be taken into account later in the process. A question of priorities..
Honestly, I have the impression many reviewers need to measure 'quality' first and foremost, like looking at cars specs rather than driving them. They never include image comparisons, for obvious commercial reasons. Check out Thom Hogan's dismal look at the CV 65/2:
Such types want you to take their word, rather than show images as evidence for their pronouncements.
The video guy above might have done a series of back-to-back comparisons between the 50/1 and the 40/1.2 and even asked for the E vsn of the 50/1.2 and included that one as well. [Fred has reviewed the CV 50mm lenses against each other, with some surprising results.] It's also a good thing he did not show images from the 50/1.2 Z lens.
BTW, the Z vsn of the 50/1 weighs in at 598 grams. You can keep up with the CV releases for Nikon at this page:
The VM vsn is a real chode by comparison, but uses the same filter size of 62mm. Maybe the MFD difference (0.45m Z -vs- 0.9m VM) accounts for some of the weight gain. Another thing to really like about CV are the wonderful light metal hoods - old world class. This one should be reversible; the VM is.
Nov 05, 2023 at 08:04 PM
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