The fourth Midland version with seven elements delivers a medium contrast image and much improved quality at full aperture, specifically in the field as field curvature is corrected to a higher degree. Overall contrast is higher than in the previous version, but the corners are still very soft.

Coma is less visible in the middle of the image area, but the lens shows a tendency to flare in the outer zones, where one can detect coma spots around bright small points of light Fine detail is recorded with soft edges, becoming quite fuzzy in the outer zones.