I'm finally ready to treat myself to a new lens (no more eBay ones for me, thank you!) and was leaning toward the 80mm Super Symmar XL. Then I noticed that for the price of this one lens, I could buy two Digitar series lenses -- the 80mm/f 4.5 and 120mm/f5.6 -- instead.
Since I shoot 6x6s almost exclusively these days, I don't need a large image cir cle but I'm concerned that the 80mm Digitar's 90mm at f/11 is not quite enough, especially as I frequently focus much closer than at infinity.
On the positive side, it's fairly small and light, has a wide aperture for focus ing and is presumably optimized for shooting at f/8 and f/11, which will work ou t well for my shooting style. I'm guessing it might be slightly sharper than th e 80mm SSXL, too, given the design tradeoff dictated by its intended usage and p resumably, it should provide color and character continuity with the 120mm Digit ar as well.
Does anybody have any experience with these two lenses or do I need to be the gu inea pig? My primary concern is how conservative (or not, as the case may be) S chneider's published image circle specs are...
Thanks!
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