Red Umbrella

Many people wonder why some of us even bother with manual focus lenses.  Isn't it going backwards?  Below is one example why we do.  It's pretty hard for a modern lens to exhibit this kind of character in a picture: very blurry corners, severe vignetting, but extremely sharp in the center. All these characters work together to pull the viewer's attention to the subject more strongly than a pictures taken with a well corrected lens.  If this picture was taken with a normal 85mm modern lens, it would be less interesting, for sure.

Red Umbrella - NEX-6 & Kodak Projection Ektanon 3 inch f2.