I've been using this lens for almost an year with 4x5' and 6x17cm cameras and I'm almost always happy about the results when I can use it about f22 or even smaller.
But it's amazing how bad it looks wide open and I'd say it's completely useless if one doesn't care about special effects.
Looking for info at Scheneider's site I found some interesting MTF curves (http://www.schneideroptics.com/pdfs/...l_45_80_2.pdf), but I'm not sure I can understand what to expect when curves drops to a minimum and rises again when it gets farther to the axis.
Very strange behaviour, I think!
Anyway, I found my lens has a stepping ring behind the front cell and I'm suspicious they tried to fix something and now I don't know if I have a bad sample or otherwise it should be expected this to work so bad when wide open.
Any comments would be rather welcome.
Cesar B.
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