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<blockquote data-quote="raiks" data-source="post: 435613" data-attributes="member: 38331">I bought mine on E-bay last autumn to step into telephoto photography. It's a well-built, heavy manual-focus lens which is able to produce very nice images. It's prone to color fringing wide open, but you can spot it only in specific scenes and I can't recall any case it create problems for me. From f/8 it doesn't produce any fringe. I use it to take street scenes and photos of animals.It's sharp and delivers calm, tranquil images (in terms of contrast, when compared to Nikkor 50 f/1.8) which bring to mind film photography. On my Nikon D3100 it works in &quot;M&quot; mode only which means I have to set everything manually (including exposure, only autofocus confirmation works). However, I gained from this manual mode a lot. Now that spring has come, I usually shoot at ISO 400, f/8 and 1/800 in a daytime. Going below 1/320 (or even 1/400) is impractical since the number of blurry images grows explosively. I tend to underexpose my shots in favor of shorter shutter speeds.I would definitely recommend this lens if you can get it for cheap. It encourages you to use your brain while shooting. You can see some shots made with this lens in the attachments, here is a typical example:[ATTACH]148465[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="raiks, post: 435613, member: 38331"] I bought mine on E-bay last autumn to step into telephoto photography. It's a well-built, heavy manual-focus lens which is able to produce very nice images. It's prone to color fringing wide open, but you can spot it only in specific scenes and I can't recall any case it create problems for me. From f/8 it doesn't produce any fringe. I use it to take street scenes and photos of animals. It's sharp and delivers calm, tranquil images (in terms of contrast, when compared to Nikkor 50 f/1.8) which bring to mind film photography. On my Nikon D3100 it works in "M" mode only which means I have to set everything manually (including exposure, only autofocus confirmation works). However, I gained from this manual mode a lot. Now that spring has come, I usually shoot at ISO 400, f/8 and 1/800 in a daytime. Going below 1/320 (or even 1/400) is impractical since the number of blurry images grows explosively. I tend to underexpose my shots in favor of shorter shutter speeds. I would definitely recommend this lens if you can get it for cheap. It encourages you to use your brain while shooting. You can see some shots made with this lens in the attachments, here is a typical example: [ATTACH=CONFIG]148465._xfImport[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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