Winter Light

For a while the Kiron 70-210mm f/4 zoom lens fulfilled my telephoto needs. It was a 1980s product, a slide zoom, remarkably well built by a company started by ex-Nikon employees. Resolution was good, although I never tried it on full-frame, and as an APS-C camera uses only the middle bit of a full-frame lens like this, I never discovered if the edges were soft. I replaced it with an AF Nikkor 70-210mm f/4, a lens made for less than a couple of years from 1986, and replaced by a slower, cheaper, and poorer resolving optic in 1988.