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Arsat N 50/1.4 samples
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Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 3:15 pm
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Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 3:15 pm
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Today I took my Ukrainian Arsat N 50/1.4 lens for a walk on the lakeside.

1. At f/2.8


2. At f/8


3. W/O. The bokeh is a bit nervous.


4. W/O


5. At f/4


6. At f/4


7. W/O. My copy seems to be a little decentered, the right side is worse than left. Traces of it can be seen still at f/5.6


8. At f/5.6


9. W/O focused to infinity. There´s some vignetting.


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Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 3:43 pm
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How would you compare it to your Nikon f/1.4 and other 50mm lenses? And next time how about a few shots of the MG?


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Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 4:04 pm
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woodrim wrote:
How would you compare it to your Nikon f/1.4 and other 50mm lenses?


Here´s a comparison I made earlier:
http://forum.mflenses.com/arsat-n-50-1-4-and-nikkor-k-50-1-4-w-o-comparison-t36497,highlight,%2Barsat.html

woodrim wrote:
And next time how about a few shots of the MG?


If/when I find a suitable MG. Cool This year the old timer rally was held when I was out of town. Sad

I´m waiting for a Arsat N 50/2 lens I bought from Ukraine. Then I can compare it to my Nikkor 50/2 AI lens.


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Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 4:11 pm
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A goos lens as you prove it, my Arsat copy was better than my Nikon 50mm f1.5 AI and I did like non AI Nikkor same .


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Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 2:52 am
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Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 2:52 am
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Gurdie wrote:
Today I took my Ukrainian Arsat N 50/1.4 lens for a walk on the lakeside.


Dammit now I want one!
You see what you did now! Mad


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Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 5:13 am
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Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2011 5:13 am
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JohnBee wrote:
Gurdie wrote:
Today I took my Ukrainian Arsat N 50/1.4 lens for a walk on the lakeside.


Dammit now I want one!
You see what you did now! Mad


Well, you can take ANY lens to the lakeside, it doesn´t have to be an Arsat. Cool

A small consolation - these can be had relatively cheaply compared to other f/1.4 lenses - the mechanical quality is not very high.


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Attila wrote:
my Arsat copy was better than my Nikon 50mm f1.5 .


I obtained recently the sample of that lens, from 1995. I discovered it to be very nice portrait lens for the CMOS Sensor Camera. Even wide open it gives the perfect out of focus image. Looks like it had been copied from the Zeiss Planar.

There is the sample, made by Samsung NX30

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