Rainbow Falls by Photography by Jamison, on Flickr
Rainbow Falls Watkins Glen State Park NY
A7R3 Loxia 35 F8 2 sec iso 100
Breakthrough Photography X4 CPF
I didn't use the dark filter on this shot just the regular cpf but I do like the dark filter.. works well just stupid expensive, and also pretty thick compared to the standard nd filters. I think i paid $190 for the 52 mm dark filter. had to get it directly from Breakthrough Photography too no one else stocks it.
I just re-acquired the Loxia 35mm and also the 21 and 50mm as well. I love these little lenses, not only using them but the incredible color and contrast I get out of them. Not the sharpest wide open but even stopped down 1/3 to 2/3 of a stop and things crisp up nicely and still allow for a shallow depth of field. A few recents with the newly acquired lens.
Piney Lake, Vail CO
ILCE-7RM5ZEISS Loxia 2/35 lens35mmf/11.01/125s100 ISO0.0 EV
Piney Lake, Vail CO
ILCE-7RM5ZEISS Loxia 2/35 lens35mmf/10.01/25s100 ISO0.0 EV
Eagle Valley Colorado
ILCE-7M4ZEISS Loxia 2/35 lens35mmf/13.0180s100 ISO0.0 EV
Eagle River, Autumn Colors
ILCE-7RM5ZEISS Loxia 2/35 lens35mmf/2.21/2500s100 ISO-0.7 EV
Eagle River, Autumn Colors
ILCE-7RM5ZEISS Loxia 2/35 lens35mmf/2.21/4000s100 ISO-0.7 EV
Old Truck with Snow
ILCE-7RM5ZEISS Loxia 2/35 lens35mmf/3.51/5000s100 ISO0.0 EV
Aspen Leaves with Snow
ILCE-7RM5ZEISS Loxia 2/35 lens35mmf/7.11/640s100 ISO0.0 EV
B&W Fresh Snow
ILCE-7RM5ZEISS Loxia 2/35 lens35mmf/8.01/160s100 ISO0.0 EV
B&W Fresh Snow
ILCE-7RM5ZEISS Loxia 2/35 lens35mmf/10.01/160s100 ISO0.0 EV
Holding On
ILCE-7RM5ZEISS Loxia 2/35 lens35mmf/2.81/1250s100 ISO0.0 EV
Flat Tops Mountains
ILCE-7RM5ZEISS Loxia 2/35 lens35mmf/3.51/320s100 ISO-0.3 EV
Backlit Rabbitbrush Sunset
ILCE-7RM5ZEISS Loxia 2/35 lens35mmf/8.01/80s100 ISO0.0 EV
adventure_photo wrote:
I just re-acquired the Loxia 35mm and also the 21 and 50mm as well. I love these little lenses, not only using them but the incredible color and contrast I get out of them. Not the sharpest wide open but even stopped down 1/3 to 2/3 of a stop and things crisp up nicely and still allow for a shallow depth of field. A few recents with the newly acquired lens.
Wow!
These are the best examples of where the Loxia 35 shines! I also love this lens.
Your images are so full of color and contrast, makes for classic location shots!
Thank you Jim, I appreciate the kind words! I've seen a lot of nice shots you've taken with it as well. I'm curious since you recently acquired the Voigtlander 35 APO Lanthar, when do you decide to take that one out over the Loxia 35 and vice versa? Do you prefer one rendering over the other? Will you keep both? I've been eyeing the 35 Voigtlander APOs I've seen listed on the B&S thread, might just have to pull the trigger on that one for pure image quality for landscapes.
Thank you for your kind words too, Scott! Looks like we have very similar interests in subjects and gear.
I haven't got any plans to get rid of any of my five Loxia lenses, or my four Batis (I'm currently looking for an amazing deal on the Batis 135 as a completion of that set).
Thanks for noticing my recent work with the CV 35 APO. I wondered whether or not to get it. But a great deal came up on a lightly used piece.
There are quite a few things the Zeiss and CV APO 35s have in common: MF, great IQ, striking contrast and color. I'd say there is around a 90+% overlap on all the great qualities.
Key differences for me are:
APO is crisp and brilliantly sharp right out of the gate. Loxia is more "painterly" at wider apertures, f/2.0-2.8.
The APO is screaming in contest and detail through f/11 (to date, I've not had reason to close down further). The Loxia is plenty sharp from f/4.0 on, but I love it's softer roll-off of high contrast edges for beautiful tonality -- plenty punchy stopped down -- f/8 is great.
Loxia is easily the winner for sunstars (which I enjoy, and try not to over-use) -- with it's sunstar performance is it's peculiar (an often very magical) flare. I find it is capable of creating lovely magenta ghosts (very large, and like a veil, at f/4.0-5.6). The ghosts can be almost invisible wide open or f/2.8, but they are there, and can give a lovely complementary color to greenery when the sun is in an upper diagonal corner of the frame. I love getting some blue sky or water, green foliage, yellow grasses or flowers, coupled with the magenta veil, all in one image.
APO is only good at f/11 for a nice sunstar, but that's it! That's pretty hard on a guy like me who predominantly hand-holds his camera in forested domains. APO ghosts are more traditional smaller flare arrays, but generally very damped down.
Many scenes would be impossible to tell which lens was used, especially like your most recently post images.
I guess this is the long way of saying that both lenses are terrific and it doesn't take a genius to get the most out of them. I have no regret about keeping both. The Loxia is smaller and easier to tote around. The APO feels beefier, but also larger and heavier. I do prefer the Loxia lens shade, by far.
Right now the APO is the new kid in my kit, so it's getting the most use as I explore it. But I'm itching to get the Loxia back out into the woods.
Thanks Jim! That's exactly the kind of feedback I was looking for. Sounds like the APO is a great lens too and I like the rendering I've seen in your images and from others as well. I really like the 35mm focal length and I just might have to get the Voigtlander APO at some point. Right now I'm having a lot of fun with the reacquired Loxias. I also have the Voigtlander 35 f/1.2 Nokton which I really like too. I like its dual nature of soft and dreamy or tack sharp, depending on subject matter and desired results. For landscapes it sharpens up nicely at f/2 and has a very nice rendering. Anyway, I appreciate you taking the time to give me your impressions and highlighting differences and similarities between the two lenses! Here are a few more recents with the Loxias I recently re-bought on the B&S listings. On the cabin shot, I did one long exposure at f/4, ISO 400 216 seconds bulb exposure for the base image to keep noise levels down and increase depth of field a bit, for the sky I focused on the stars at infinity, then opened up to f/2.8, shot at 15 seconds ISO 1600, then combined foreground/background(sky) in Photoshop.
Pristine Mountain Creek
ILCE-7RM5ZEISS Loxia 2/50 lens50mmf/8.025s400 ISO+0.3 EV
Old Cabin at Night Under Stars and Milky Way
ILCE-7RM5E 21mm F2.8 lens21mmf/4.0216s400 ISO0.0 EV
Nature Reserve Wetlands Area
ILCE-7M4ZEISS Loxia 2/50 lens50mmf/7.11/160s100 ISO-0.3 EV
City of Glenwood Springs at Night
ILCE-7RM5ZEISS Loxia 2/50 lens50mmf/11.030s50 ISO0.0 EV
Autumn Colors Cascading Stream
ILCE-7RM5ZEISS Loxia 2/50 lens50mmf/16.01/2s50 ISO-1.0 EV
Pond with Autumn Color
ILCE-7M4ZEISS Loxia 2/50 lens50mmf/7.11/400s100 ISO-1.0 EV
adventure_photo wrote:
Thanks Jim! That's exactly the kind of feedback I was looking for. Sounds like the APO is a great lens too and I like the rendering I've seen in your images and from others as well. I really like the 35mm focal length and I just might have to get the Voigtlander APO at some point. Right now I'm having a lot of fun with the reacquired Loxias. I also have the Voigtlander 35 f/1.2 Nokton which I really like too. I like its dual nature of soft and dreamy or tack sharp, depending on subject matter and desired results. For landscapes it sharpens up nicely at f/2 and has a very nice rendering. Anyway, I appreciate you taking the time to give me your impressions and highlighting differences and similarities between the two lenses! Here are a few more recents with the Loxias I recently re-bought on the B&S listings. On the cabin shot, I did one long exposure at f/4, ISO 400 216 seconds bulb exposure for the base image to keep noise levels down and increase depth of field a bit, for the sky I focused on the stars at infinity, then opened up to f/2.8, shot at 15 seconds ISO 1600, then combined foreground/background(sky) in Photoshop....Show more →
Scott -- Gorgeous shots!
Good reminder that I need to use my Loxia 50 more often!
I posted this some time ago on the Landscape Forum, but I think forgot to also post here. This is from last May, just down the roand from me, about 12 miles.
