Nikon 50mm f2: Generation Context

here and as gracious as Nik and Japan has been to us we're still going to give our usual honest review as always let's get to it okay so it has been many years since we had the predecessor the original Nikon Zed 50 in fact I remember shooting that in a Japanese garden as well ironically and so in

build than what you've seen from very inexpensive lenses in the past this is a lens that in many ways performs a lot like a retro lens both in strengths and weaknesses but with the ability to maybe produce higher resolution images at the end of the day than what a lot of those older lenses are so…

version the late version because this was one of the later redesigns of the fully manual lens before autofocus started to be implemented it's about a half an inch shorter in length than the previous design and you'll notice that it doesn't have the old rabbit ear metering claw at the top this…