[davidmanze]

Most AF lenses focus wide open - so I was referring to Rover's "If only it hadn't been MF..."

 

​Chances are very high that it would miss focus a lot of times, even if it's only a small movement of the photographer or the model or both. On the other side, there are 200/2 lenses which are similar in that aspect and - to make things worse - heavier at the same time. Interestingly, there's only one 135/2 in the current line-up of Nikon. It appears this formerly popular focal length is one of the victims of the more versatile zooms.

 The practical solution "is" the Nikon 135 F2 DC, with variable defocusing control enabling the background blur to be changed. It's an auto-focus lens so the keeper rate will be infinitely better and should give a similar bokeh to Mitakon F1.4. (maybe)

  The bottom line is it's one of Nikon's sharpest  and  proven lenses.

 There was one came up on "the bon coin" a couple of weeks ago for 795€............man did I agonize over buying it!

 

   Who the hell on earth would want the Mitakon all manual over the Nikon AF variable defocus? The DC is also built like a bulldozer!