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- The rendering of this lens can be summed up in a single phrase: “quiet and well-balanced.”
- At full aperture (f/3.5), the image is slightly soft, with a modest amount of light falloff toward the edges.
- Stopping down to f/5.6–8 results in a significant improvement in resolution.
- Contrast is restrained, with rich and nuanced midtones.
- Color reproduction is subdued and calm, making the lens particularly well suited to black-and-white photography.
- It is not a lens that seeks attention, but one that carefully captures atmosphere—an image character very much in the tradition of classic Nikkor optics.