Jerry Cullingford wrote in message <6e8ahd$qv@suneng2.hh.ffei.co.uk>...
>In article <6e71pt$sg@newsstand.cit.cornell.edu>,
>Neuman - Ruether wrote:

>>You may want to look at "SUBJECTIVE lens Evaluations
>>(Mostly Nikkors)" on my web page, under "I babble"...

>I see you list multiple versions of the 35/2.8 PC lens;
>Is there an easy way of telling which version is which, since
>they're preset lenses?


The latest one looks like a smooth cylinder front to rear
(earlier ones had "shapely" barrels with distinct rings,
and had chrome shift-screws instead of the black
cylindrical one of the latest version [the latest one
also has the shift mm scale on the shift mechanism
instead of on the barrel]). This lens isn't very wide,
being a 35mm, but is really sharp to the corners
(shifted less than three mm) wide-open, easily beating
other 35mm lenses (especially in the corners) at f2.8,
qualifying it (for me) as a sort of "speed" lens...

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