Here is a shot i took yesterday at the Stanford Church. I cannot remember if this was the schneider 28mm PC or the contax zeiss 35mm PC but it was almost fully shifted. First is the whole image resized and then a 100% crop upper right. I blew the highlight on the right window but i had my leaf back and hssselblad with me and the same window was blown there too even 2 stops underexposed.
The contax 35mm PC is outstanding and the best wide angle PC lens I have used. THe canon 90mm TSE is also outstanding. The schneider 28mm PC is pretty good in terms of being sharp corner to corner but it really suffers from CA in some situations. I have been able ot correct in PS but sometimes takes some playing around. THe 35mm contax PC is just so sharpe edge to edge and almost no distortion. The canon 24mm TSE is decent but also has some CA. 45mm TSE is not the 90mm TSE but again decent. Mark
Is this the lens you recently got from Mark - once he got done testing the 3 PC lenses. Truly a very nice copy of the lens.
I am in the process of procuring the Olympus shift lens. While not as nice as the Zeiss, I am really looking forward to getting a shift lens again - the last one was the 24 TS-E which I really liked.
I bought the 35mm PC off ebay from a Canadian seller. I have not seen alot of variation between the lenses. The schneider 28mm PC is also decent albeit for the CA --fortunately can be correct in CS3
Damn.... I keep missing the Contax 35mm PC lenses when they show up at auction. There are always several Nikon PC's for sale.....Found an Olympus, but buyer was asking $300 more than what it should sell for. The Zeiss almost never shows up and when it does, it's gone before I can even bid on it
Mark, thanks for posting. This is the Stanford Chapel, correct? I remember you posting shots with the Hassy/Leaf combo some time ago. This is just outstanding. I just can't wait to find a 1DsIII. I have to agree about the Contax 35 PC. You just can't beat the optics and it really shows on the 1DsIII. Anyone looking at these photos should grab any copy you can still find of this lens. I love my copy and I'll never sell it.
Hi all thanks for the comments. Yes this is the Stanford church and I did take some images with the leaf as well-- long time ago and again the other day. I started to process those and they looked alot better initially until I compared them with the 35mm PC lens. THe detail is a bit better with the leaf but i need to look at those images again more closely. The issue is that I did not have a tilt shift for the hassy so the angle of the image is not identical. I did do some comparisons outside the church with the hasselblad/leaf vs canon 1Dsmk III. I compared the canon 85mm 1.2 with the hasselblad 100mm HC. THe detail is better with the leaf but the degree of difference not quite as large as I had expected. The color accuracy was much better with the Leaf and the DR was clearly better but the differences were not quite as huge as I thought. I still need to do some more processing because the files really have different workflows in CS3 and not sure i have the 1DsmkIII figured out yet. Plus I have been really busy at work.
The images above were sharpened. In CS3--- 0.25/5/0.25 and then smart sharpen 100/3. The canon files need more sharpening as expected compared to the leaf.
Aptus 65. If you do the same level of sharpening the canon is much farther behind and in some fine detail images you can see a difference. I am going to try to do some macro testing this weekend.. hassy 120mm H2 vs leica 100mm on the 1DsmkIII
.. i have a lot with people in it too...