Here’s another vintage lens journal update, this is a 50mm f1.8 Ai lens made from 1980-1982 (you can read more about the humble standard lens here). It’s usually identified as a “pancake” lens because of it’s small size, but in truth it’s not a true pancake lens, but it is small. It’s probably one of the sharpest lenses Nikon has ever made but it didn’t catch on because all camera manufactures were concentrating on auto focus cameras and lenses. Mine usually lives on a Nikon D3x (but it’s on a Nikon F4 in the picture above) yes I know little lens on big camera but it resolves really well on the 24 million pixel sensor. So below it worked really well on a photo grid of the wearmouth Bridge on a dull day.
Seeya soon mb
