[davidmanze]

Interestingly enough a lens that one reputable testing site has dismissed as "rough piece of trash" - claiming it to be unacceptably soft until stopped way down and at the same time very expensive - got high marks here in the 'Zone. I'm speaking of the Nikkor 58/1.4 which is often referred to as being soft - the "character" lens as those more lenient describe it.

I don't hold any hope whatsoever for the old Soviet lenses to be anything but garbage when taken at face value... but it might be interesting to see - maybe just once - how the atrocity of the old lenses combines with the testing grounds and methods of the contemporary PZ/OL.

Well here is a shot taken with the M44-2 at F8 .....

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   You can also take the rear lens assembly off in the field ...... and here I placed a paper star which becomes the diaphragm only star shaped ......
 All the stars are just in fact standard street decorations ...........

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