rich heavy but natural color saturation, sharp, contrast, smooth transit tones, bright and briliant views. use this lens to paint the oil-paint that Da Vinci did...

it was discontinued maybe due to its "rare earth elements" [radiation?], but it is just because of these rare earth elements that made it excel! radiation?? forget it! it's much less than you stand in the sunlight for 15 minutes in your daily life.

Olympus made at leaset five 50mm lenses and this one 55mm lens. i used them all in different applicaitons, and found this 55mm f1.2 is the best among the 6 50-55mm zuiko lenses.

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nikkor 55/1.2, 58/1.2, leica M 50/1.0....

Light, sharp, acute, contrasty and fully manual!

Shift of focusing ring after 10yrs of use or so - infinite was focused between 8-10m.

This lenses is one of the luckiest combos I ever had of sharpness, acutance and contrast. Against fine grained films, it delivered superb detachment between objects boundaries, vivid greytones, high contrast and little aberration or distortion if any. I had three of these lenses tested, on an Olympus OM1n body, against other prime lenses ... and IMHO they are to be ranked among the best. Sharpness, acuteness and contrast were evaluated comparatively over three other lenses, after scanning the respective negatives and gazing the image results in actual pixels mode. This would not be an acurate absolute result due to digitalization biases, but comparison boils down to show the differences between the lenses souls. Although I think we should never let good lenses go - because lenses are good for their brand but also for some innefable, particular, individual factors that may not repeat in future exemplars - I may have sold the best of them. Life goes that way. We win a little but also may lose a little.

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It had to be serviced due to the focusing shift mentioned above - I did it myself cutting the rubberband of the focusing ring covering the lens barrel just for a slight regulation of one tiny screw.

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Nikkor 50mm f/1.2