Originally posted by stevebrot Nothing like pointing to a primary source, eh? I confused the original aero bright with the aero bright II and did not dig deep enough. My bad.
Well, just to confuse things, the specifications for the D FA70-200 mention:
* HD coating
* SP coating of the front element
* Aerobright II nano-coating of the inner elements
So, this is an HD coated lens with Aerobright II on the inner elements... and it's the same, in fact, for the D FA*50/1.4. Would the OP, I wonder, consider these to be Aerobright lenses or HD / SMC... and therefore - at the price - worthy (or not) of consideration? I'm being a tad facetious, I realise... but only a tad
Are there, in fact,
any lenses that use only Aerobright (II?) coatings, or is it mainly applied to internal optical surfaces, with HD (or other) coating used for the outer elements?
Is the OP actually saying, without realising it, that he prefers the colours from a
specific lens (coupled with the in-camera or raw converter's default profile(s)) rather than Aero Bright coatings (coupled with those same default profiles)? Which brings us back round to the acid test comparison of two lenses, optically identical except for coatings...
Last edited by BigMackCam; 02-27-2020 at 01:28 AM.