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FWIW, for the majority of people a 45/2.8 on APS-C is not overly useful.

Shame on Klaus for ever having reviewed it.

Some will use it just because They Can™ and very few will actually find it useful.

Sure, why would anyone ever want to use the smallest, sharpest (at F5.6/8/11), super-quick-focusing

medium-distance portrait lens ever created, with the inherent flare resistance of a

minimalist 4-element/3-group design, that costs less than a Leica lens hood,

on their lightweight Sony Nex?

No need for a review, IMHO.

True, who would care about such a $100 GN Nikkor optic on the Nex, when we can already read about

the slower, heavier, longer, much harder-to-find, far poorer optically (including somewhat

greater chromatic aberration and 3 times the geometric distortion) Voigtlander Heliar 50mm f3.5,

for only 7 times more money? Or the 43mm f1.9 Pentax lens (also with more distortion and chromatic

aberration) for a mere 5x more $$$?

After all, there M-mount Voigtländers that are both smaller and faster if you account

for the F-mount adapter you would need.

Perhaps everywhere but Ebay, where the phrase "45mm voigtlander" returns no matches. And we must be talking

about different things in general, because every non-Sony-E-mount lens in the world requires a roughly

inch-long (~3cm long) adapter for the Nex, not just Nikon lenses.



Actually, thanks much for pointing out the interesting material on Nikon "normal" lenses, which of course

on APS-C cameras are all nice portrait lenses. Sounds like until we know more, we have to get the

Ai version of the lens if we want to make sure we have performance of the 45mm pancake

that Photozone reviewed.