The blades inside my old MF Micro-Nikkor 55mm lens started getting sticky a few months ago and it finally quit working all together. I figured I had nothing to loose so I took it apart... completely apart... cleaned every blade individually and reassembled the lens and it still looks great!!
This was taken handheld with the dandylion shaking in the wind. Still crisp (considering the ISO, Apeture, Camera, and circumstances). I'm so pumped! F/6.1 is certainly not the pinnicale of sharpness for this lens.... F/11-16 is the real sweet spot on this perticular lens. I think when I get this on a tri-pod in my studio I might find that it is almost as good as new.
  
Please keep in mind the third one is a pixel for pixel crop on a Fuji S1 pic at F/6.1 on ISO 400 handheld. |
