maandag, juni 09, 2003
Back long ago, when zoom lenses were a novelty and their optics a joke, I relied totally on the "normal" 50mm lens that came with my old Nikon F – the first "real" camera that I ever owned.
It was a 50mm Nikkor f.2 – a fast lens 40 years ago and a fast lens today. Why? Because at 50mm the lens was, as the name implies, normal. It merely had to approximate the "normal" range of vision of the human eye – and not, for example, have to keep things aligned and sharp at an extremely wide angle.
Sharp. Fast. Normal. (What more do you really need?)
Frank van Riper
It was a 50mm Nikkor f.2 – a fast lens 40 years ago and a fast lens today. Why? Because at 50mm the lens was, as the name implies, normal. It merely had to approximate the "normal" range of vision of the human eye – and not, for example, have to keep things aligned and sharp at an extremely wide angle.
Sharp. Fast. Normal. (What more do you really need?)
Frank van Riper
# posted by Jan-Edward : 21:42
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