I got me one last week and the cheap chinese adapter did not give me infinity (as expected...). No problem. I just turned the focus ring to infinity, loosened the three screws on the focus ring and turned the ring slightly. Attached the screws and turned the ring to infinity again. Voila! I have infinity. I am very very pleased with the lens. It is now in my three lens travel kit...

http://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/713215/0?keyword=travel#6436825

Here she is!

Andreas,

Looks like a beauty!

Congrats on the new lens!!

Can we see some "Brainiac" type 3-d shots with this baby?

wayne seltzer wrote:
Andreas,

Looks like a beauty!

Congrats on the new lens!!

Can we see some "Brainiac" type 3-d shots with this baby?

We will see. Initial tests give quite good 3D.

Yes it does. It is strange but the stars are nice!

A

Congrats on a great lens, Andreas, and Richard, wonderful shot!!!

brainiac wrote:It's a cheating collage I'm afraid, but thanks...

there's so much going on, its almost like a movie poster.

Great! Awhile ago I was thinking of getting a CZ 35 1.4 but but decided to hold off and wait to see if this rumored new Zeiss ZF/ZE 35 1.4 version happens and also see what the Samyang 35 1.2 EF version is like.
But now I will be teased by all these great zeiss 35 1.4 shots. I see where this thread is headed!
This should be good, keep them coming!

That is a fantastic image, collage or no...

What do the OOF highlights look like at f/2 and f/2.8?

Valorin wrote:
What do the OOF highlights look like at f/2 and f/2.8?

On the rollei or the contax?

I will shoot some test photos later. Have a busy day at work today.

Are we seeing aspherics at work in that shot Richard? I see onion rings. Not saying it's a bad thing, I find it exciting as it usually means little/no coma in 35's with aspheres.

Here is one at evilbay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Rollei-Distagon-HFT-35mm-f1-4-Germany-35-1-4-AI-EF_W0QQitemZ310179928281QQcmdZViewItemQQssPageNameZRSS:B:SRCH:US:105

Nice price :-)

I think this one has pretty good 3D.

Interesting, either way a sharp lens with good bokeh is very accurately corrected. I must say if they made a 35/1.4 ZM I might have chosen that over the immensely expensive 35 summilux asph, the most expensive lens I've ever bought.

I really do like my 25 ZM biogon, and from what I've seen the ZF/ZE 35/2 looks fantastic, in retrospect I might have preferred that over the Leica lenses of the same focal length as well! All they need is a better fast 50, and a sharper fast short tele. That being said, they're making arguably the best glass for the EF/F mount at the moment. A 35/1.4 would really bring the fight to Canon/Nikon.

It's a very exciting time for optics, the most recent canon lenses (24 II, 24 TS, 17 TS) are honestly ridiculously good, even though for my purposes a lens without a decent distance scale is very annoying. I can only imagine it'll be a couple of years and we'll have lenses achieving diffraction limited sharpness at very large apertures with fantastic uniform bokeh. Perhaps that will further increase interest in lenses like the 58 biotar for it's unique rendering and swirl

Quick oof snaps as requested.

1. f/2
2. f/2.8
3. Not oof. f/1.4

All on 5DII


A

I shot these straight in to the celing lights at work. Spots.

thanks Anden, they remind me of rotors from a Wankel

Neat, thanks Anden.