grosema wrote:
Got Mine .. here in Canada
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MIRANDA1 wrote:
Where did you order it from if you don't mind me asking?
Here's another option: Not sure if he's received stock yet, but there's also Rob Skeoch in Burlington. Great guy to deal with for Zeiss lenses (and film/large format gear). If you do contact him, tell him I sent you... for a while he was including a B+W UV filter with Zeiss lens purchases with this referral, but not sure if it's still the case.
I haven't tried this myself, but based on 50mm Planar and 135mm APO Sonnar, I'd assume it's not really that hard to focus. To me, 135mm is easier than 50mm which itself is my favourite and something I've gotten used to. Takes practice, for sure, but that sharpness may help too. Perhaps one of the lucky ones who have this shares their findings, though.
So that's where it went. Eddie told me he had one and doesn't expect my Canon mount until the first week of December. So far I don't believe any Canon mount versions have been delivered anywhere.
Out for a dog walk this morning -5c .. ice is forming on the pond
Just for your Pleasure to view..... I did crop it a bit down the left side and a bit off the top I gave it a touch of sharpening in raw PS and saved for web
This Lens is Very Easy to focus ...I have had a few AIS lenses and sold them all because of the focusing problem I have with my old eyes
here is a link to the big version
Shot @ f 5.6 1/320 ISO 100 http://www.pbase.com/grosema/image/153510013
has anyone compared the otus and 50 summilux asph on an M240 or A7r? i can't believe nobody has posted a comparison yet...or maybe somebody have and i missed it
As to the comments on the Leica R 100 Apo and bokeh issues, I have the lens and have had no issues with it. Even in the harshest of light on the background, it simply feathers. The Zeiss 100/2 is a lovely lens and indeed has different bokeh, with much less contrast. The linked photos from the other thread show loads of posterization in the bokeh for all three lenses. This is not derived from the lenses but instead JPG compression settings being too low. A shame for lens tests....
Wonderful images posted here, but I'm starved for more while I wait for my pre-order to get fulfilled. Apparently Zeiss hasn't made any shipments in the ZE mount yet.
Jorge: I loved your unboxing video; I watched it three times. Usually such videos are a dreadful bore and uninteresting, but I guess my enthusiasm for this particular lens changes all that.
darbo wrote:
Wonderful images posted here, but I'm starved for more while I wait for my pre-order to get fulfilled. Apparently Zeiss hasn't made any shipments in the ZE mount yet.
Jorge: I loved your unboxing video; I watched it three times. Usually such videos are a dreadful bore and uninteresting, but I guess my enthusiasm for this particular lens changes all that.
Posted many more from a day trip to the Oregon coast. Nice weather. Had to go. Nothing special, just snap shots around town and way home.
Compared to the small Zeiss 50 1.4 ZE Planar sibling at the Planar's "achilles heel" (= minimum FD up to 2m), the bigger Otus takes clearly the lead....
Just watch the crops....
(LV focused on middle of barcode, tripod, Cam: Canon 1 Ds III)
And a couple of them appear to have a swirly type of distortion. The centre is creamy smooth, but the edges are in focus. So it looks like it's very distorted here...
Interesting. This kind of effect is in Sigma 50/1.4 too. Its background bokeh is creamy smooth in about DX frame, but outside of it, it is worse. I have a picture of this in my article on bokeh: http://jtra.cz/stuff/essays/bokeh/index.html
