02-01-2016, 09:37 AM
I think, Revuenons were mostly of russian or GDR origin. A friend of me was a big fan of Zeiss Jena at the time when GDR was a country and lots of Russian or Eastern country photographers made masterpieces without any CaNikon, japanese or western tech. So, from this aspect there's really nothing to say about those vintage glass - I just don't see them as better because they are made of metal.
After my 35 mm Sigma falling down with the camera from 1.5 m tripod to wooden floor, the floor was damaged. Camera and lens worked and to my huge surprise, not even the filter thread was bent - I had the same experience with the NIkon 24/1.4 and the metal filter thread had to be changed. But "metal is better than plastic" will remain in most heads in our generation because all of us knew some samples when metal WAS better than crappy cheapo plastic. It's only, that contemporary plastics are neither worse nor cheaper than metal
After my 35 mm Sigma falling down with the camera from 1.5 m tripod to wooden floor, the floor was damaged. Camera and lens worked and to my huge surprise, not even the filter thread was bent - I had the same experience with the NIkon 24/1.4 and the metal filter thread had to be changed. But "metal is better than plastic" will remain in most heads in our generation because all of us knew some samples when metal WAS better than crappy cheapo plastic. It's only, that contemporary plastics are neither worse nor cheaper than metal