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Subject: [Leica] dang! everyone looks like a star in the 85 1.8
From: telyt at earthlink.net (telyt@earthlink.net)
Date: Wed Nov 7 13:00:34 2007

<grduprey@mchsi.com> wrote:

> When was this original version sold?  It is not in the Nikon Handbook
published way 
> back in the 1960 - 1970 's era.

Gene,

It had already been replaced with the non-compensating version by the late
1960s.

Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com


-------------- Original message from amr3@uwm.edu: -------------- 


> Quoting Mark Rabiner : 
> > A favorite old cheap and amazingly cool ai to use which I got for 99
bucks 
> > is the 55 macro.3.5 or you can use a 2.8 there are at least 
> > 5 styles. 
> 
>
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> ....................................... 
> I don't know if it makes any difference on a digital Nikon (I use
Canons), but 
> the earliest 55mm Micro-Nikkor (with the knurled metal, non-rubberized
focus 
> ring) has a compensating diaphragm made for using a separate meter. At
any 
> aperture other than f/3.5, the diaphragm opens up to compensate for image 
> magnification factor as the lens is focused closer. I still use one of
this 
> type with an adapter on our 1D for copy work, since it's so sharp and has
no 
> distortion. 
> 
> Alan 
> 
> Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer 
> University Information Technology Services 
> University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 
> Office Phone: 414 229-6525 | E-mail: amr3@uwm.edu 
> Department Phone: 414 229-4282 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/ 
> 
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