Not heresy at all, Bill, because it depends on what you're looking for
in a lens. I find that good lenses designed for film, including of
course the 77, have qualities that modulate the ever sharper, ever more
detailed efforts of digital sensors available today.
If I were more heavily involved with photography requiring absolute
resolution, I would likely carry more interest in the current lens
array, including the newly announced 85, but since the majority of my
current work calls for a subtler approach to fidelity, the 77 delivers
what I want.
I haven't run across much fringing, but I mostly use the lens in
controlled conditions unlikely to introduce it.
Yes, the AF is slow/clunky, which is sometimes an issue, and that it has
a somewhat unfortunate minimum focusing distance is a niggle. God gave
me feet for a reason, I guess.
My probably more important point, which got lost, is that the new 85 is
just too close in length to the 77 to justify its addition to my bag
despite the speed increase, when the 77 does the job for me.
The cost is also a consideration, especially in the current climate,
when what I do, which is up and down at the best of times, is now
virtually dead.
Do report back what you think of the new lens when it reaches you. I'm
not terribly active on the list but I do keep up somewhat, and obviously
the announcement of new product caught my attention.
Doug
On 3/26/20 4:55 PM, Bill wrote:
On 3/25/2020 8:42 PM, d...@dougbrewerphoto.com wrote:
Has it been 21 years? Holy smoke. Still, when you get it right...
Heresy alert: Don't read past this if you are faint of heart our have
other underlying conditions.
The 77 is a good lens, on film with the AF that we had at the time it
was a very good lens, maybe even a great lens, but that was then, this
is now.
Today, the 77 is a dated design with slow AF gearing that is prone to
all sorts of fringing.
Yeah, it's under corrected spherical aberration gives it nice bokeh and
a great deal of three dimensional effect, but to just toss off "when you
get it right" says a lot more than the lens delivers.
It's not all hat, no cattle, but it's herd is not as big as people make
it out to be.
bill
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