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Message: <blockquote data-quote="stmv" data-source="post: 796515" data-attributes="member: 10038">Picked up the cleaned up 85 mm, the glass came out beautiful,  all fungus gone, and not a speck of dust or scratch on the glass.  I can tell it was a well used lens, the focus ring is not quite as silky smooth as I am used to for most of my lens, still turns fine,  but a hint of rougness, I suspect that this lens was a real workhorse. I took some quick test shots with my D700, Aok,I kinda like my D700 as the classic old  lens camera. I am not convinced one needs the resolution of the D800 for this type of glass. Especially not the 50 mm 1.2, it not as razor sharp as say the 50 mm 1.4 or definetly not the 50 mm 1.8 (super sharp, super cheap, but cheaply made too). but, perhaps there is an essense of a lens. some quality that is unique to the lens that shows up in a picture.</blockquote>