Have had something of a love/hate relationship with this lens, and haven't used it much in the last couple of years. Will give it another go for a while on this camera... that itself has issues, and I've failed to sell. With the camera, like the D200, when a dozen other folk with the same camera try to sell theirs at the same time, it ends up being a race to the lowest price. A buyers market. As there are a couple of minor issues (cracked cover on the top LCD, and a couple of stuck pixels... out of about 12 million), it has even less chance of selling unless you almost give it away! Oh well.

Back to the lens. Wide aperture and a "normal view" (not wide-angled, or telephoto), so great for use in poor light... i.e. this time of year, and nighttime photos. Alas, it has noticeable softness (blurring) in the corners of some images. It could just be my usage of it, so I'm going to experiment a bit with it. One reason for using it on this camera, is that you can fine tune the autofocus to suit a variety of lenses. The camera will remember those settings for different lenses too. I couldn't do this with the camera I used the lens on before.

Need to check the autofocus accuracy first - hence the strange chart. You can buy an (expensive) one of these, that's made of plastic, or: download a free design for one; print it out; and stick the printout to some sort of solid backing. Guess which option this cheapskate went for!

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In other news, a work colleague brought in his Dad's old camera. An unfamiliar German make of 35mm folding camera from about 1951, with a 50mm f/2.8 lens. Seems to mechanically work, so we're going to try it out properly! Must order some appropriate black & white film (of course!) tonight.