 Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2014 1:48 pm Post subject: FD 50/1.2 L Finally I got a sharp fast fifty! |
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Langstrum wrote:
I tried for almost a year with getting new 50/1.2 lenses and sell the one I'm not satisfied with to find a better one. Actually none of them is really bad, but they're all soft wide open. Then I decided to go with either the SMC Pentax A, Minolta 58/1.2, or FD L, even though I had the Pentax 50/1.2 and it's soft, too.
Some days ago, I found a seller that misidentified the FD 50/1.2 L as FL 58mm f/1.2 and sell for $450, then I asked him the details, he still couldn't recognize the lens is L version. He finally accepted my offer of $420 and sent me very quickly by the express service.
Oh well, I was a bit scared because the nFD and FD L versions look exactly the same, the only difference is the red ring and the red L on the name plate, it's still possible that someone can fake it and sell with cheaper price.
It turned out to be a good copy of this lens. It's so small, more compact than the FD 58/1.2 SSC, even smaller than the Sony SEL 50/1.8 
I tested it along with the FD 85/1.2 L at wide open and f/1.8 with the SEL 50 (because it's the sharpest 50/1.8 that I have)
It's SHARP! It's even a bit sharper than my FD 85L at f/1.2, and stopping down it's equal to the SEL 50. Even though it shows the worse CA among three lenses, but it's still not that much, very easily to fix, and I like the overall image rendition than the SEL 50.
F1.2 (vs FD85L)
F1.8 (vs SEL50)
the focus was actually not at the same point, it's on the right of the crop image with SEL50 and on the left with FD50, but their sharpness is very similar
Other samples:
f/1.2
f/2
f/2.8
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Camera: Sony A7 mark III, A6300
AF Lenses:
Canon EF 50/1.8; EF 200/2.8 L, EF 200/1.8 L, EF 300/4 L Sony E mount SEL 50/1.8 OSS, SEL 16/2.8 Fuji X mount XF 35/1.4 R
MF Lenses: Peleng MC 8/3.5, 17/2.8 Samyang 14/T3.1, 35/T1.5, TS 24/3.5 ED, 85/T1.5, Polar 85/1.4 Auto Revuenon 28/2.8; MC 50/1.4 Vega11U 50/2.8 Carl Zeiss Tessar 50/2.8 (exakta mount) Auto Chinon 50/1.9 Zenitar ME1 50/1.7 Sears Auto Sears 55/1.4; Sears 135/2.8 Auto Yashinon DX 50/1.4; Tomioka 50/1.2 SMC Pentax 50/1.7; 50/1.4 Canon FD 50/1.4 S.S.C; 55/1.2 S.S.C; FD 50/1.2 L; FD 85/1.2 L; 85/1.2 S.S.C Aspherical; FD 80-200/4 L 300/2.8 S.S.C Fluorite FD 300/2.8 L FD 200/1.8 LCosina-S 50/1.2 Helios Helios 44 Chrome f/22, 44-2, 44-3, 44M-4, 44M-7 (58/2), Helios-40 85/1.5 Jupiter Jupiter-9 85/2; Jupiter-37A 135/3.5; Jupiter-21M 200/4 Nikon Ai 105/2.5 Tairs-3S 300/4.5
Voigtlander 15/4.5 Aspherical; Ultron 35/1.7
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