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| sent on 06 Marzo 2024
Pros: Fifty size, featherweight, manual focus, optical and mechanical quality, negligible cost
Cons: nothing
Opinion: I agree with all the comments that have been made before me. Compared to the classic 105 2.5 ai-s, this one loses something in terms of optical performance, but it is even smaller, lighter, smoother and pleasant to handle. And here we come to the substance of the matter. A 100 mm 2.8 as small and light as a fifty, of excellent mechanical quality and more than decent optical quality, which can be purchased for 100 euros, really makes you think. Focus? If you don't do weddings or sports photography for a living, but you are a normal amateur photographer, even more so of landscape, what is the problem of focusing by hand? Carpal tunnel? Short-sightedness? Manual focus, for me, is pure enjoyment, like deciding shutter speeds and apertures the old-fashioned way. It's not that thirty or forty years ago we didn't know how to take good pictures. And in my opinion, the more action is left to the manual skills of the photographer, the more fun and satisfaction there is in photographing, and if you take some photos, so be it. But here we enter the subjective and everyone is free to believe that they cannot do without the latest huge, superstabilized, tropicalized, razor-sharp, very heavy and very expensive zooms that are close to them choosing the subject to photograph and the time to do it with artificial intelligence. Also there: I own two old tiny nikkor zooms, the 28-80 f/3.3-5.6 G and the 35-80 f/4-5.6 AF D which cost a few tens of euros and weigh less than 200 grams, of disconcerting optical quality in relation to weight and cost... Basically, with three small fixed cameras such as the 100 2.8, the 50 1.4/1.8 (or the 35/2) and the 24 2.8, one mounted and the other two in your pocket, you go away comfortable and relaxed with everything you need in 90% of cases, you spend a chip, you take reasoned and good quality photos, you move a little to choose the shots and you certainly have more fun than being Sherpas with backpacks full of the latest glass that you "must" use to delude yourself into thinking you can make sense of the mortgage payments needed to buy them (I'm not talking about professionals, of course). Then, for heaven's sake, the combinations are countless, but undoubtedly this 100 is incompatible with almost all zooms that would involve an overlap, or almost, of focal length, and in my opinion it makes sense to combine only with fixed ones. |
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