General impression
An excellent lens, very well built and delivering excellent images. This lens has not be replaced by a more recent version. In the meantime, thanks to its sharpness fully open, this lens just became a legend. Many people are looking for one, because it is a cheap and fabulous portrait lens.
Pros
- relatively cheap (for the delivered performance)
- super sharp even fully open
- nice bokeh
- fast (2.5)
- compact and light
- excellent build quality and smoothness of the rings
Cons
- no standard sunhood delivered
A simple test picture to show the consistent performance of this lens. The carpet is just sharp from corner to corner, and the shot was fully open (f2.5) on a D3.
A flower picture to judge the smooth bokeh of this lens
