Bit of a silly one today: within the myriad of different lens sets out there, few can boast even a 135mm f\/2. When Nikon\u2019s Soichi Nakamura created their legendary 200mm f\/2 in 1977, they would open an even more exclusive club of ultra-fast teles.<\/p>\n
In fact those ultra-fast 200mm-ish super-teles have been around for much longer than you might think and weren\u2019t designed for 35mm SLRs.<\/p>\n
Lens speed seems such a trivial commodity these days \u2014 because we\u2019re all too spoiled. In the past things didn\u2019t look so bright. Louis Daguerre\u2019s models had to sit still for minutes.<\/p>\n
Lenses needed to be faster, and Josef Petzval\u2019s swirly f\/3.6 revolution could be considered the first speedy one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Bit of a silly one today: within the myriad of different lens sets out there, few can boast even a 135mm f\/2. When Nikon\u2019s Soichi Nakamura created their legendary 200mm f\/2 in 1977, they would open an even more exclusive club of ultra-fast teles. In fact those ultra-fast 200mm-ish super-teles have been around for much […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[110,114,112,38,113,111],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lens-history","tag-200mm-f-2","tag-erich-solomon","tag-fast-lenses","tag-nikon","tag-petzval","tag-telephoto-lenses"],"yoast_head":"\n