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  • I also have some vintage 50mm 1.4 the size of a shot glass which are tiny compared to modern 50mm 1.4 lenses which resemble the size of a Saturn V.

    I guess the modern glass is correcting for much more optical errors people in the 70s and 80s were accepting but won’t any more today. After all there wasn’t 60 megapixel resolution on 35mm film (no, don’t even start!).

    Maybe manufacturers could have corrected these already in the 70s and 80s but the lens would have been ridiculously expensive, or big, or heavy. Or all three.