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- From: phr@telebit.com (Paul Rubin)
- Subject: Re: 49mm versus 52mm
- In-Reply-To: swanger@ducvax.auburn.edu's message of Thu, 31 Dec 1992 21:18:24 GMT
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 23:47:41 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec31.161824.1@ducvax.auburn.edu> swanger@ducvax.auburn.edu writes:
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- Pentax and Nikon use different diameters (widths?) for their 50mm lenses.
- Pentax uses 49mm, Nikon uses 52mm. Does the width affect picture quality?
- Is one better than the other, or does neither make any difference?
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- It shouldn't make any difference to the optical quality of the glass.
- However, using 49mm with wide angle lenses is more likely to cause
- vignetting (some Olympus lenses have this problem slightly; don't know
- about Pentax). 52mm gives the designer a little more room to use
- bigger elements etc. This allowed Nikon to use 52mm for quite a lot
- of lenses including a 20mm, 35/1.4, 50/1.4, 85/1.8 (I think), 105/2.5,
- 55/3.5 and 2.8 micro, 80-200/4.5 zoom, etc. This was really nice
- because you could have all these lenses and just one set of filters.
- I suspect that some of these could not have been managed with 49mm.
- However, Nikon more recently seems to have gone to 62mm for new AF
- lenses including 60/2.8, 85/1.8, etc.
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