Well, I personally think any high quality hammer will do, but I don't want to start a flame war here as opinions diverge. People here tend to take their hammers very seriously and it's a touchy subject.
Most people agree though that you'll be fine with any brand of epoxy glue.
Seriously though .. it will mount just fine, right? No adapter needed? This is the first time I'll be using an Alt lens, so I'm not really sure. Thanks.
ZF.2 = Nikon mount with electronic aperture control. No adapter needed. The only difference between it and a regular Nikon lens is that you'll have to turn the focusing ring yourself.
AhamB -- Ha-ha! I include the PP exposure adjustment just for clarification of the settings.
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Okay, I'm officially impressed. No, not with how great I am! I'm impressed with the wonderful world of cameras, lenses and software. It's not the first time, and I'm sure it won't be the last.
Here's a 12-shot pano I just got back from taking at a local shopping center. I've never done one of these "block-type" panos before, although I've thought about it. I decided to just sit down on a cement bench, put in a mid-range prefocus, set a quick manual exposure for the overhead (heavily over-exposing the left and ground sides), and just firing off a 3x4 box.
Uploading included no adjustment, just straight conversion to jpg at quality of 40 in LR. Then assembled in PSE8 on the "auto" setting for pano. Then back to LR for some adjustment on the saturation and brightness and more cropping.
I know the shot isn't perfect and not an award winner, but I'm just completely stoked at how well the perspective is corrected and the naturalness of the scene, which is actually fairly wide!
Shot horizonally 3-across by 4 rows, with the 60D hand held, and the cheapie Contax/Zeiss 80-200/4 lens at 80mm. Side to side, it seems like 28mm angle of view, but corner to corner seems more like 20mm immersion -- sort of giving the medium format or 4x5 "feel" of being physically present in the image. The image is not perfect at all for exposure or PP handling, but for a quick "rip", I'm totally impressed with the camera, lens and software. I suppose you can tell I'm not much of a techie, but still, this is wonderful and opens a whole new vista for hand held photos. I'm so impressed that there aren't many (if any) matching errors between the frames.
sirimiri wrote:
The total cost for everything is nuts, but you do get AF Zeiss on Canon.
you mean you get real AF with all functions? WOW!! I didn't know this was possible crossing over to a different system.
What longer AF alt lenses (300-500mm) would you guys think would be worthy candidates to do such a conversion? (to be used on a Nikon D 700, or possibly, on a Nikon D 7000 rather than adding a converter). Any ideas?
I really need a lens in the range of 400-500 mm for wildlife, but it better be AF. The ZF 100 is often very much to short, and wildlife photography with MF is not much fun anymore once you check your keeper rate. The high class lenses in that range are just out of my price range.
cyra wrote:
you mean you get real AF with all functions? WOW!! I didn't know this was possible crossing over to a different system.
What longer AF alt lenses (300-500mm) would you guys think would be worthy candidates to do such a conversion? (to be used on a Nikon D 700, or possibly, on a Nikon D 7000 rather than adding a converter). Any ideas?
For Canon, this one: https://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/977597
Contax N lenses use the same communication protocol as Canon EF, and the registry distance isn't shorter than EF, so the conversion is possible. For Nikon you're out of luck.
fefo.1979 wrote:
i have a 5dmk1 with the contax planar 100/2, im really interested in c/y distagon 28 2.8
i had the ef 17-40 f4L,great colours and versatile because zoom,but i sold it for poor corners and only f4 aperture..im searching a more luminous wide prime lens.
don't need f1.4 or 16/17/18mm wide,for me is good a 2.8 and 24/28 mm..
how is the contax 28 2.8 in comparison with the ef17-40L??(on canon 12mpx fullframe,in term of colours,sharpness,flare, image quality!)
I haven't tried the Canon 17-40L, but I absolutely love my Distagon 28/2.8 (using it on a 5Dmk1). It can be very usable at f/2.8, but not for things where corner sharpness is important. At f/8 or f/11 the sharpness across the whole frame is great and the colour and pop are so too. Note that the MM version is said to have better corner sharpness at wide apertures than the older AE version.
For Canon, this one: https://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/977597 Contax N lenses use the same communication protocol as Canon EF, and the registry distance isn't shorter than EF, so the conversion is possible. For Nikon you're out of luck.
