Here are some images taken last evening at the Trexler Nature Preserve, Schnecksville, PA with my tripod mounted A7r and my Minolta CLE 40mm f2 M-Rokkor lens set at f8. All images processed in LR5.6.
Great shot Wilhelm.. and awesome video
Lovely set Gregg
Great shots Tim
Mike and Bob : like always superb!!
Great set Jack
Charles: Nice shot !
Nicola: Great set
Awesome thread this is.. and full of very talented photographers
Ronny _Olsson wrote:
hiepphotog: never seen shot from that lens.. very interesting
Is there many made copies of it ?
If it is the "50 Yahre" Contax lens then it is extremely rare and correspondingly very expensive. I would think twice to take that lens, had I owned that, to a crowded place like the hot air balloon festival .
AGeoJO wrote:
If it is the "50 Yahre" Contax lens then it is extremely rare and correspondingly very expensive. I would think twice to take that lens, had I owned that, to a crowded place like the hot air balloon festival .
Joshua and Ronny, the 55 can only be found in "100 Jahre" version (100 years of Planar design). The lens is not particularly rare, though highly sought after. I think about 1000 were made in 1996. The original retail was $7329. To me, the purpose of the lens is to make pictures, so I have been using it. I have only three lenses so it's not that hard to use it.
The 85/1.2 has two versions, 50 and 60 Jahre (for Contax Anniversary). About 1500 were made for each version. I have the 60 Jahre. The sad thing is that I have not used it that much. I don't usually just shoot portrait. I have done several multi-row panoramas with it. But I guess I need to do more Brenizer bokeh pano.
Shooting these lenses on a Sony body would be as low-profile as it gets. No photographer I've met so far recognized these. So I just shoot away and hang on tight to my stuff.
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