In article <4lpfkq$skp@news.linknet.net>, tschoolr@linknet.net says...

>>: Others...50/1.8E, original 135/2.8 (non-AI)...

>>wasn't the 50/1.8E the standard lens you used to get when you bought
>>a manual slr? ITs the one that I've got on my FE2 now.. what wrong >>with it?

>Nothing. It was a great lens, and an excellent value for the dollar. >I've seen some reviews that claimed it was sharper than the 50mm 1.4

And so were most 135mm non-AI Nikkors.....(if we are talking about
the non-AI 50mm f1.4 at wide apertures - though it was excellent stopped-down). Which brings up the point, again, about sample
variation. Among MANY 50mm f1.8 E lenses that I have tried, a few
were not optimum - though among the several 135mm f2.8 non-AI's I
tried, I missed finding a poor one (though apparently CT has had
the misfortune of finding less-than-optimum samples of both the
50 E and early 135mm...).
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