Testing a Gift YASHICA ML 50mm f2 lens

[pentaxpete]

One of my YouTube Channel Subscribers has sent me loads of Camera Gear as he said he was  too ill and wanted to 'Downsize' and one lens was a YASHICA ML 50mm f2 - I already HAVE the Yashica 'DSB' 50mm f1.9 so wantedto know the difference - so asked on FLICKR and the reply was the DSB lens is single coated and the  'ML' stands for 'Mulit-Layer' and it Should be sharper -- I could not  take many at full aperture as with 200SA film and the  daylight in Brentwood 1/1000th was not fast enough but here are some tests on outdated 'BOOTS' ( FUJI) 400 film  which had been through Airport X-Rays some years  ago , rated 200 ASA and home=processed inn C41 -- 

Full Aperture f2 -- 

YASHICA ML 50mm f2 test 02 by Peter Elgar, on Flickr
CLOSE- Focus at f5.6 

YASHICA ML 50mm f2 test 03 by Peter Elgar, on Flickr
Cropped Candid at f5.6 

Yashica ML test 05 by Peter Elgar, on Flickr

[spinno]

good stuff again Pete!

[gray1720]

They don't look bad at all, do they?

[don]

They certainly do look good, very sharp and a great ‘gift’