Fefo, very nice shot, as Carsten says! But, IMHO, the white frame is a bit too distracting. And you could consider posting larger pictures, so that we enjoy even more of your delightful pixels...
Contas, How old are these buildings roughly speaking, the house and the church? Wondering especially about those sculptures and that painting on the house.
Does anyone know the web location of the pretty detailed charts comparing Contax CY lenses titled "Zeiss Contax MTF Comparison"? I see it hosted on the following site as a pdf, but cannot download the page. I think I saw it elsewhere over the last year but forget where and from using google cannot find it. The document compares MTF numbers for Zeiss lenses in the same FL range and also has a link at the top to the data source, which will not open from the pdf located at the address below, another reason to attempt to find the orginal location. http://wenku.baidu.com/view/b1a13477f46527d3240ce055.html?from=related
@inglis: I have seen it before, somewhere, but don't think I bothered saving a link because I don't find the comparisons by number that interesting. I'd rather just look at the datasheets from Zeiss if I'm interested in a particular Contax lens.
The independent testing of the CY Zeiss lenses is what I would like to see which is or was linked to the page mentioned above off of the word 'here' in the first sentence. I copy the first paragraph below. But since the address above only connects with a pdf file, the word no longer links to anything. Would anyone know what independent testing this would have been of CY Zeiss lenses?
The first paragraph describes charts based on the independent tests. We can see the charts at the address above, but not the data upon which they were based:
"The following data was compiled from independent MTF tests of Zeiss Contax lenses previously published 'here' [linked word]. Centre and border measurements were taken at every aperture (here represented in our conventional Zone A and B format, as it remains unknown whether the 'border' sample point lay in Zone B or C). Marks out of ten were awarded. Marks out of ten were awarded. The highest possible grade appears to be 9.0, but in fact one lens appears to have performed so outstandingly at one aperture that it gained a mark of 9.1. Amps to 11, then. You may or may not be surprised to learn that it was the cheapest lens they tested."
I have seen this data, inglis, on a website some years back, maybe 16:9 (?) but its someone's idea of how 'marks' should be awarded. The zone business works less well than MTF for me, you don't see the change happening over the field as image height varies. So it's a summary of an arbitrary opinion.
Contax 645 80mm f/2.0 @13 on 5D2:
@inglis: this house was built for Indo-Chine French Governor General Paul Doumer in 10 years in early 1900, this bears his wife's name in french "Villa Blanche"-White Villa - untill now.Previously, it belongs to the Presidents, now this house becomes a museum. The church, was also built at the same time or a little later with Pagoda style.
@akul : thanks, I also like them , and now I realized the "transitional zone" as you said before, thank again.
last landscape shot (i think) of the day at the lake,i promise you i will not post others!
zeiss contax planar 100/2, 5d, iso100 1/100s, handheld, Garda lake italy
Thanks Luka. #4 was actually shot wide open. I think my copy of the Zeiss 24-70 is especially good. The vignetting is also not nearly as bad as I thought it would be especially 50mm and up.
