k-h.a.w wrote:
Thank you Peire.
I should put that lens to use on my A7r2 and A1.
It seems many folks here on the forum were not
particularly fond of the images they got with it.
What a nice car! As for the Zeiss 35/2.8 lens, I like it very much and use it on A7r/r3 as one lens travel setup. Here are two images taken (with A7r3) two years in Yellowstone National Park.
k-h.a.w wrote:
Thank you Peire.
I should put that lens to use on my A7r2 and A1.
It seems many folks here on the forum were not
particularly fond of the images they got with it.
Your image shows well lense's major advantages : Zeiss colours and microcontrast.It is not overly sharp,especially at around corners,but it does the job very well,being small and lightweight at the same time.A very good and attractive optics for what it is.
ocean2059 wrote:
What a nice car! As for the Zeiss 35/2.8 lens, I like it very much and use it on A7r/r3 as one lens travel setup. Here are two images taken (with A7r3) two years in Yellowstone National Park.
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Peire wrote:
Your image shows well lense's major advantages : Zeiss colours and microcontrast.It is not overly sharp,especially at around corners,but it does the job very well,being small and lightweight at the same time.A very good and attractive optics for what it is.
Thanks to both of you, I appreciate your feedback.
Great images ocean2059 of Yellowstone.
BTW the car is a neighbor's 1928 Ford.
Another image with the Zeiss FE 35 ZA T*, this time taken with the NEX-7 in 2015, processed now with C1P21 and ON1.
NEX-7 + Zeiss Sonnar T* FE 35mm F2.8 ZA (SEL35F28Z) @ f/2.8.
A few from yesterday at Washington DC's Kenilworth Aquatic Garden. The blooms are a little past peak now, but it's still a beautiful oasis in the city. All are with a Sony A7riv and either the Sigma 105 macro or the Sony 24GM.
Thank you Karl-Heinz.I am usually somewhere between f5.6-8.To me lense's major strenghts are size,weight,Zeiss colours and microcontrast.
I just got the Sony 35mm 1.4 so I was going to sell my Sony/Zeiss 35mm 28. But like you say, it is so small, easy to travel with, and produces images with that wonderful Zeiss look. I have always enjoyed the images it produces. This lens only brings between $300-$350 on the used market, so I have decided to keep it for now.
birdied wrote:
Water drop refraction.
Taken with Laowa 25mm extreme macro at 2.5X. Cropped only for composition. Stacked image, hand stacked in Photoshop .
I just got the Sony 35mm 1.4 so I was going to sell my Sony/Zeiss 35mm 28. But like you say, it is so small, easy to travel with, and produces images with that wonderful Zeiss look. I have always enjoyed the images it produces. This lens only brings between $300-$350 on the used market, so I have decided to keep it for now.
Having ZA Distagon 35/1.4 and Sony GM 35/1.4 (plus similar FE Voigtlanders 35/1.2 ,35/2 Apo,40/1.2,Loxia 35/2,Batis 40/2) I did the other way round,acquiring 35/2.8 ZA only a couple weeks ago as the last.No regrets.
I don't always meet with approval from my subjects, there is always a small number who can't be swayed. Best to recognise this early on, and decide if the image is worth pursuing. Here it was. The guy is throwing a stone at me and the camera caught it in mid-air. It's in line with the shadow cast by his cane, bottom right. He missed, I didn't.
Looking at a closer view of a White Pine?
Cropped, tripod mounted FE 100-400mm GM zoom set to 400mm and Sony A7rIII camera, silent shutter.
ISO 800, f8, 1/100 second.
Exposure Corrected +0.10 Stops.
June 11, 2018
At Lock Ridge Park (the site of an old Iron Furnace works), Alburtis, PA.
