Finally got to taking the Batis 40 on a hike after taking it to a wedding and for travel in India.
AF + Close Focus + Standard focal length for wide panoramas and crop ins made it an ideal hiking partner.
I’m particularly happy with #4 (except I can’t quite figure out alignment) - it’s hard to get wide shots of trees in the forest, and I finally got one on a random hike.
Looking at your recent shots with a Batis and the other series you have been posting recently with the 50/1.4 GM, there seems to me to be a great difference in the colors and contrast with a substantial advantage consistently going to the Batis. The 50/1.4 GM shots seem dull in comparison. Are there any differences in the processing or shooting situations that might account for this, or is it the difference in the lenses? Or, perhaps you don't agree with me about the differences in the images as posted?
chiron wrote:
Looking at your recent shots with a Batis and the other series you have been posting recently with the 50/1.4 GM, there seems to me to be a great difference in the colors and contrast with a substantial advantage consistently going to the Batis. The 50/1.4 GM shots seem dull in comparison. Are there any differences in the processing or shooting situations that might account for this, or is it the difference in the lenses? Or, perhaps you don't agree with me about the differences in the images as posted?
The difference is in the lens.All high quality,contemporary lenses can theoretically render sharp and contrasty pictures,yet after applying the same exactly PP reveals that Zeiss has still an edge.It is not as clearly visible right out of camera,as it was in the past,but the difference is still there.That is the reason I still keep Zeiss lenses like,say, ZA Planar 50/1.4 FE or ZA Distagon 35/1.4,though they are inferior in pure technical terms compared to GM 50/1.4 and GM 35/1.4.
I got a Batis 40 as an AF complement to my CV 40 1.2 and focal length complement to my 24 GM & Batis 85. My wife and I are trying to grow our family and I’m preparing for lots and lots of home videos and photos.
I’m floored. The output reminds me of a ZM 35/1.4 and offers modern features over an RX1R like IBIS, weather resistance, and even better close focus. If this is how photographic Zeiss is going to go out, they might have saved their best mirrorless lens for last. It’s doing a great job with babies and myself (last pic is a cross post from the FE thread)
ILCE-7M4ZEISS Batis 2/40 CF lens40mmf/2.01/80s800 ISO0.0 EV
