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<blockquote data-quote="STM" data-source="post: 115051" data-attributes="member: 12827"><p>It will take great photos but you won't be able to meter with it as it has no way to communicate with your camera. A handheld meter or another camera can be used to get the exposure. If you use another camera to meter, set it on aperture priority and f/8 and see what shutter speed you need to use.</p><p></p><p>I have to take exception to the fact that this is a "whimsical" and "difficult" lens. I found it to be neither, in fact I loved it. It was extremely compact and light for a lens of that focal length. Its very narrow depth of field made it a snap to focus on the focusing screen ground glass. If there was a specular highlight on the subject, all the better. If you have a camera which has aperture priority, it is a piece of cake to use. Since the shutter speeds on the F2 are continuously variable from 1/250 to 1/2000, it was even easier. If the doughnuts bother you, then you just try to change the camera viewpoint to where they are less noticeable or remove them in post processing. Piece of cake. In some images, I found the doughnuts to be quite pleasing. And back before the days of autofocus and auto everything, they were used quite often by SI photographers for sports. That was back when photographers did not rely on the camera to do all the work and thinking for them. Walter Iooss of SI fame, one of the finest sports photographers of all time, used one a lot when he shot NFL games. I would say that is a <em>mighty strong </em>endorsement of the lens.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="STM, post: 115051, member: 12827"] It will take great photos but you won't be able to meter with it as it has no way to communicate with your camera. A handheld meter or another camera can be used to get the exposure. If you use another camera to meter, set it on aperture priority and f/8 and see what shutter speed you need to use. I have to take exception to the fact that this is a "whimsical" and "difficult" lens. I found it to be neither, in fact I loved it. It was extremely compact and light for a lens of that focal length. Its very narrow depth of field made it a snap to focus on the focusing screen ground glass. If there was a specular highlight on the subject, all the better. If you have a camera which has aperture priority, it is a piece of cake to use. Since the shutter speeds on the F2 are continuously variable from 1/250 to 1/2000, it was even easier. If the doughnuts bother you, then you just try to change the camera viewpoint to where they are less noticeable or remove them in post processing. Piece of cake. In some images, I found the doughnuts to be quite pleasing. And back before the days of autofocus and auto everything, they were used quite often by SI photographers for sports. That was back when photographers did not rely on the camera to do all the work and thinking for them. Walter Iooss of SI fame, one of the finest sports photographers of all time, used one a lot when he shot NFL games. I would say that is a [I]mighty strong [/I]endorsement of the lens. [/QUOTE]
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