Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/09/29
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At 9:42 PM -0400 9/28/01, Dan Cardish wrote:
>I too have the Nikkor 85/1.4 AIS and I find that for portraits it is my
>sharpest lens bar none. This was the first lens Nikon designed with their
>version of "floating elements", and I believe that it is really effective.
> Too bad I am stuck with using it on an old F2, which IMHO simply doesn't
>cut it anymore. So the lens collects dust at the bottom of an equipment bag.
I think you will find that the first lens with floating elements was
the 24/2.8 Nikkor of around 1968 or 1969. By the time the 85/1.4
Nikkor was released many other lenses had already used floating
elements.
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