Canon FD 55mm f1.2 SSC or Canon nFD 50mm f1.2 (not L)

[braxus]

If you had a choice between these two lenses, for use on both a AE-1 and also any digital mirrorless camera, which of these two lenses would you choose? They are both pretty close in price. Im aware the nFD 50mm f1.2L is even better, but the prices that lens commands now is way in the stratosphere. These two lenses above are pretty close in price. Which would you go with and why?

Also am I going to see much of a real difference, if I already own a nFD 50mm f1.4?

 

[Craig]

If the price is the same, I would get the new FD 50 f1.2. It has a different optical formulas than the older 55, so presumably better performance.

I doubt you'd see much difference between the 1.2 and 1.4, unless that half stop is important to you; or you want the really shallow depth of field.

 

[benjiboy]

If the price is the same, I would get the new FD 50 f1.2. It has a different optical formulas than the older 55, so presumably better performance.

I doubt you'd see much difference between the 1.2 and 1.4, unless that half stop is important to you; or you want the really shallow depth of field.

I own or have owned all these lenses in the past and my honest advice to you Braxus is to keep your money in your pocket, because the FDn 1.4 lens you already have, if you don't want to pay the price of the FDn 50 mm f I.2 L one, isn't worth the difference in the quality you will see in you're images by buying the FDn 1.2 lens .