Yeah Cal - give me "my" lens back!! Glad to hear you are enjoying it. It was one of my most favorite (and underrated) lenses.

Gary Clennan wrote:
Yeah Cal - give me "my" lens back!! Glad to hear you are enjoying it. It was one of my most favorite (and underrated) lenses.

You'll need to switch to Canon....it's been Leitaxed!

I have the 21 and 100MP in ZF mounts and I am blown away by the images. The 21 is very easy to use but I am still learning to focus the 100MP properly. The focus confirmation is not very accurate and I have no way of doing AF fine tune for it.

I am now also considering to add a third and final zeiss lens to fit in between but I am rather undecided. I just sold my 35G not being completely satisfied with it. Thinking of the Sigma 35mm or 35/2 ZF and also the 28/2 and 50MP. I would like to hear what the guys here have to say

The ZF 100MP is indeed great. It's wonderful on a camera like the Nex-7 which has focus peaking! :-) Though I still miss occasionally.

DSC06226.jpg by Taylor Sherman, on Flickr

Picture This! wrote:
alkanphel, taz - great shots !

Ronny, just wow on the last shot.

Agreed!

Thanks
Very nice Gary
Nice shot Tayler


Carl Zeiss Distagon T* 2.8/21 ZF 2 by Ronny Olsson, on Flickr

Carl Zeiss 1.4/85 ZF by Ronny Olsson, on Flickr

Nice landscapes, Ronny, I can feel the coldness through them!

A few more from the ZE 100MP, as I walked around the Botanic Gardens.


Yellow Flower by alkanphel, on Flickr


Enroachment by alkanphel, on Flickr


Cacti by alkanphel, on Flickr


Web spinning by alkanphel, on Flickr

Great work with 100MP alkanphel

My dog with Zeiss 50 MP

DSC_240 Zeiss Makro-Planar T * 50mm f / 2 ZF.2 by Ronny Olsson, on Flickr

Zeiss Makro-Planar T * 50mm f / 2 ZF.2 by Ronny Olsson, on Flickr

Gary Clennan, gorgeous mountain shot

Ronny, great harbor images. I love the angry sky.

Finally bought a ZE 21 after renting one often and see-sawing back and forth about it or a 2/25. Great deal emerged, and I couldn't be happier. My first set from it.

Jim


Full Back - BW by Only_to_be_kind, on Flickr


On Guard by Only_to_be_kind, on Flickr


Spire by Only_to_be_kind, on Flickr


Spire - BW by Only_to_be_kind, on Flickr


Point Bonita Lighthouse by Only_to_be_kind, on Flickr

Congrats Grenache, you're gonna love that lens!

Thank you everyone that responded to my thread about focal lengths a while ago. I ended up taking the 21, 35 and 50 to my trip and I had tons of fun with it. I made a decision to switch to a different system so this is probably going to be my last set from these lenses, I know I'll miss them very much . Anyway here are some pics from the trip, I'm not going to flood the thread but you can see some more in my flickr set.

-Rocky


Wakakusa Yamayaki by letsgetaway, on Flickr
35/2


A Lucky Hassy by letsgetaway, on Flickr
21/2.8


Painter's Patience by letsgetaway, on Flickr
21/2.8


Do You Lift? by letsgetaway, on Flickr
35/2


Senbon Torii by letsgetaway, on Flickr
35/2


Frosty Station by letsgetaway, on Flickr
35/2


Lonely Cottage by letsgetaway, on Flickr
35/2

Thanks
Great Set Jim and rirakuma

Beginner question here: How hard is it to manual focus these lenses on either a Nikon D600 or D800? Are the screens good enough for reliable focus or is your hit rate much lower than you would like?

Great images here.

If you get your camera and lens calibrated focusing is easy once you're used to it. You don't even need to look at focus confirmation for most scenes.

My hit rate with D800 and a series of ZF.2 lenses is decent, but lower than I would like. Part of the problem is surely the focus shift that several of my lenses have. When it is really crucial to nail the focus, I re-focus until I get it right, or use live view.

Rirakuma, Absolutely beautiful images, thanks for share. Since you mention it, I wonder what system could be better you switched to replace D800 and ZF?

Zhangyue, thank you for the kind comment. I'm switching to Leica, its not necessarily better but I like to shoot discreet and there are often times I feel that the D800 is too intrusive. I did consider using Zeiss lenses on the Leica but I wasn't sure if I like the fingerprint on the ZM lineup, I felt that the ZF/ZE lineup had a more pleasing rendering compared to the ZM although I could be very wrong. I will miss the Zeiss pop though, here's one with a bit of pop from the 35/2.


Nara Deer Park by letsgetaway, on Flickr

Ronny _Olsson wrote:
Thanks
Very nice Gary
Nice shot Tayler

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love that first one Ronny - the composition, the stillness, the mood

ben

johnahill wrote:
Nibutto - great shots from Rome, I especially like the first one and the one with the chairs.


+1 love the Rome shots.(Wish they wouldn't allow parking in Bernini's Piazza)

ben

Thank you, Ronny.