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Archive 2009 · What is your current line up?

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p.1 #1 · p.1 #1 · What is your current line up?

I have bought, tried and sold so many lenses and cameras over the years and finally I feel pretty much set. I would love a 5D mk2 but at the moment I am very happy with my 5D.

My lens line up:

Zuiko 18/3.5 - Fantastic lens. Made me start loving WA-shooting.

Rokkor 24/2.8 VFC - Just converted so no experience yet. Love the lens anyway due to the very cool VFC feature.

Canon 35/2 - Small, cheap and pretty sharp. For times when I want/need AF.

Zuiko 50 1.8 - Not used very much but I like the results on film with my OM-bodies.

Nikkor 50/1.2 AI-s -Just have to have it. The Rokkor 58 has some advantages but this is still very good.

Rokkor 58/1.2 - ´Nuff said.

Canon MP-E 65 - Together with the MT 24- EX it is the easiest to use high mag rig available. The Zuikos are better IQ-wise though.

Zuiko 80/4 bellows lens - Used on the Minolta Auto Bellows III for tilt and shift in my studio.

Canon 85L - Fast, sharp and AF. Superb lens.

Vivitar Series 1 90/2.5 Macro with 1:1 adapter - Really useful lens and a great allrounder. Great results and pretty low CA.

I am pretty sure that most of these lenses will stay with me now. I can´t see where I should need a replacement and I will now try to spend more time shooting and less time worrying about the next lens purchase and where improvements are needed.

Please share your line up and then take a moment to think about how much fantastic gear you own. Then go out and take great photos!

Andreas

Mar 04, 2009 at 02:41 AM

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p.1 #2 · p.1 #2 · What is your current line up?

Sounds very good to me but nothing longer than 90? Boy, I would not be able to sleep at nights.

Mar 04, 2009 at 02:51 AM

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p.1 #3 · p.1 #3 · What is your current line up?

Still shooting with an old 1Ds MKI - maybe, if everything works out fine I'll get a 5d MKII since the 1-series is a little bit heavy.
CZ Distagon 28/2.0 - one great lens, only downside is size and weight
CZ Planar 50/1.4 - nice, but I don't use the focal length that much
Mamiya 55/2.8 - nice lens on the T/S adapter, microcontrast not as good as Zeiss, but a very clean rendering
Mamiya 80/4 Macro - great sharp macro lens, a little bit hard to focus
CZ Planar 85/1.4 - sharp lens, MFD not that great for the type of portraits I like to shoot, but still not letting it go.
CZ Planar 100/2.0 - another great lens, my favorite over the 85.
CZ Sonnar 135/2.8 - nice lens, but it hardly gets used
Canon 200/2.8 - my outdoor lens, nice, fast AF.

I think, in the end, I will sell the CZ 85 and 135 and get a zoom ( either the Canon 24-105 or CZ 28-85 ) for times when we are in town and changing lenses while keeping an eye on the kid is a little difficult. Nothing more, but I am starting to shoot LF.

Stefan

Mar 04, 2009 at 03:54 AM

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p.1 #4 · p.1 #4 · What is your current line up?

Camera: Canon 5D II

Alt lenses: SIGMA/TAMRON: Sig24-60/2.8 - Sig50/1.4 - Tam90M - C/Y Zeiss 35-70/3.4 - MINOLTA ROKKOR 58/1.2 - OLYMPUS OM: 18/3.5 - 21/2 - 24/2 - 28/2 - Zykkor28/2.8 Macro - 28/3.5 - 35/2 - 40/2 - 50/1.2 - 55/1.2 - 85/2 - 135/2.8 - 135/3.5 - 200/5 - 300/4.5 ZEISS C/Y: 35/1.4 - 50/1.4 - 85/1.4 - 135/2.8 - LEICA R: 35/2 - 50/2 NIKKOR: 50/1.4 - 58/1.2 - 105/1.8 - 105/2.5 - 135/2 - PENTAX M-42: 50/1.4 Takumar SMC VOIGTLANDER: 58/1.4 - CANON MF: 85L/1.2 (!) - LENSBABY: 50/2.0

plus filmcameras in most makes, incl a Yashica Mat 24G (got it a few days ago) and coming: A Mamiya RZ67 outfit...

Mar 04, 2009 at 04:40 AM

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p.1 #5 · p.1 #5 · What is your current line up?

As of end of January 2009, I said goodbye to my 1Ds2 and all my Contax lenses. My Alternative gear has become rather mainstream with:

Sony A900 main body
Zeiss 24-70 ZA
Zeiss 16-35 ZA
Zeiss 85/1.4 ZA
Zeiss 135/1.8 ZA

Might add a Sony 100/2.8 macro in the coming few days as there is no Zeiss alternative.

Mar 04, 2009 at 04:44 AM

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p.1 #6 · p.1 #6 · What is your current line up?

gasrocks wrote:
Sounds very good to me but nothing longer than 90? Boy, I would not be able to sleep at nights.

I have had lenses up to 500 mm but my shooting style does not require longer lenses at the moment. I might add a tele in the future but for now I am happy.

A

Mar 04, 2009 at 04:50 AM

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p.1 #7 · p.1 #7 · What is your current line up?

André! You have a serious Zuiko-addiction :-)

Mar 04, 2009 at 04:55 AM

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p.1 #8 · p.1 #8 · What is your current line up?

My alternative lenses (the remaining ones, after a lot of testing):

Zeiss 21 2.8 - the most impressive WA-lens under 35mm I ever used, very sharp even wide open, bokeh not as good as for example Canons 24L

Zeiss 28 2.8 - in the center as good as the CZ21, but not in corners; ideal for cameras with a crop-factor; my standard-lens on the 10D

Zeiss 35-70 3.4 - beginning with f5.6 as good as it gets in its focal lenght; I use it for landscapes and especially for night-shots (no flare at all)

Zeiss 85 1.4 - very sharp (beginning with 2.0); I like it for its tinyness (but its not light)

Zeiss 100 2.0 - sharp, good bokeh, very nice 3D-rendering

Zeiss 100-300 4.5-5.6 - at 100mm as sharp as the 2.0 and very good up to 300mm. Nice colours and contrasts, too. I like it for its tinyness (relative to other 300mm lenses) and versatility. Can be hard to focus, but live-view helps a lot. Very good for landscapes in combination with the 35-70 and 21

Olympus 50 1.2 - sharper than the Canon 1.4 at 1.2, very good stopped down, bokeh-quality is "special": sometimes I like it, sometimes not

Olympus 50 2.0 macro - very sharp standard lens, versatile, good bokeh, nice colours

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Mar 04, 2009 at 05:03 AM

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p.1 #9 · p.1 #9 · What is your current line up?

Seems like there are others that have tried and tested several lenses to get the perfect line up. Nice.

A

Mar 04, 2009 at 05:07 AM

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p.1 #10 · p.1 #10 · What is your current line up?

Canon 5D II

Leica 19 Elmarit-R v2 - Very sharp, great colours and low distortion.

Canon EF 24/1.4L - Fast, sharp, but plenty of CA stopped down.

Leica 28 Elmarit-R (latest) - Very sharp (from samples I've seen) still awaiting delivery

Leica 35 Summicron-R - Great OOF rendering and very vibrant colour, not the sharpest in this FL but has a special quality and the corners don't really matter for me at this FL.

SMC Pentax-A 50/1.2 - Love & hate relationship with this lens, love the sharpness, colour and OOF areas, hate OOF highlights.

Leica 90 APO-Summicron-R - Sharpest lens in this FL, need to carefully choose backgrounds though as tends to have a lot of definition and not the nicest OOF point light sources

Leica 100 APO-Elmarit-R Macro - The best (sharpness, bokeh, build & colour) Macro in the 35mm format.

Canon EF 135/2L - Sharp & fast with fast AF and great bokeh. One of the gems of the canon lineup.

Voigtlander APO Lanthar 100/4 - Total absence of longitudinal and transverse chromatic aberration, smooth out of focus areas and highlights, tack sharp from wide open.

Mar 04, 2009 at 05:25 AM

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p.1 #11 · p.1 #11 · What is your current line up?

Oh. I forgot. I also have the Voigtländer 105/4.5 APO Lanthar - Linhof Selected...

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Mar 04, 2009 at 05:33 AM

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p.1 #12 · p.1 #12 · What is your current line up?

In Alt usage on a 1Ds, the main lenses in rotation are as follows:

CZ D21 C/Y - ultimate sharpness, but flares and has gull-wing distortion
Yashica 24/2.8 ML - small, no distortion, sharp in the center, cheap
CZ D28/2.8 C/Y - beautiful character of rendition, great central sharpness
Canon EF 35/2 - small, cheap, effective, sharp, AF
CZ 85/2.8 C/Y - superb Sonnar bokeh, small
CZ 100/3.5 C/Y - even better than the S85
CZ 100/4 (bellows) - tilt/shift magic for tabletop
Leitz Tele-Elmar 135 (Visoflex adapter) - celebrated performance, no pathologies
Yashica 200/4 ML - compact, nice imaging, cheap

All these work without mechanical obstruction, and have reassuring build quality.

Mar 04, 2009 at 06:08 AM

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p.1 #13 · p.1 #13 · What is your current line up?

Bodies and light:

XSi, OM-1, 1D - very much used, all very useful.
Elan 7 - my first DSLR, gathering dust. I miss eye control on AF points.
SD 870 IS - the best little P&S ever.
420EX and T20 - almost unused after knowing sub-1.4 lenses

My glass:

My trusty zooms: Tammy 17-50/2.8 and 19-35/3.5-4.5. First on XSi, second on 1D (until I buy a 17-40 - maybe never given the priorities).
For low-light: Rokkor 58/1.2 and Pentax (K mount) 50/1.2. EF 50/1.4 for AF when I'm lazy or using 1D for lightning candids.
Tele/macro/uber-sharpness/and has AF!! Canon 100/2.8 Macro
Zuiko Collection (poor-André's one

): 21/3.5, 24/2.8, 28/2.8, 28/3.5, 35/2.8 (hey Andreas, remember me?), 50/1.8, 50/1.4, 100/2.8, 200/5
Tried and waiting in the shelf for selling: Lensbaby 2, Seper Tak 50/1.4

Apart from the Zuiko madness, I'm basically set.

Mar 04, 2009 at 06:53 AM

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p.1 #14 · p.1 #14 · What is your current line up?

My "alternatives" are:

Carl Zeiss Contax T* 28/2.8, 35/2.8, 45/2.8, 85/1.4

SMC Pentax 18/3.5, -A 50/1.4, 85/2.2 Soft, -M 135/3.5

Voigtlander SL Color-Heliar 75/2.5, APO-Lanthar 180/4

Zenitar 16/2.8 MC Fisheye

Mirex M645/EOS T-S adapter, Auto Bellows N

Mamiya 645 C 35/3.5N, 45/2.8N, 55/2.8N, 80/1.9, 80/2.8N, 80/4N Macro, 150/3.5N, 210/4N, 500/5.6 LD

Mamiya 645 A 120/4 Macro, A 300/2.8 APO, 2xTC N

Sch-K C-Curtagon 35/2.8, Nikon EL-Nikkor 50/2.8, Pentax SMC Bellows-Takumar 100/4, Sch-K Xenar 180/4.5

I use them mostly on a 5D. I also have a lineup of Canon primes and zooms that I use as alternatives to my alternatives, depending on circumstances.

Mar 04, 2009 at 06:58 AM

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p.1 #15 · p.1 #15 · What is your current line up?

Zenitar 16mm
zeiss jena 20mm 2,8
contax 28mm 2,8 MM
zeiss jena 35mm 2,4
nikon ai 35mm 1,4
nikon 35mm 2,5 E
contax 50mm 1,4
contax 50mm 1,7
zeiss jena 50mm f4
nikon 50mm 1,8 E
nikon 50mm 1,4 afd
nikon 55mm 2,8 micro
zeiss jena 80mm 2,8
contax 85mm 1,4 (in repair)
contax 100mm 2
zeiss jena 135mm 3,5
zeiss jena 180mm 2,8

and some others that I forgot :-D

Mar 04, 2009 at 07:08 AM

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p.1 #16 · p.1 #16 · What is your current line up?

Anden wrote:
André! You have a serious Zuiko-addiction :-)

I do, I love the Zuikos, but I only really use two lenses now: The Noct-Nikkor and the FD 85L, since I got it back from Dmitry with his superbly crafted EF mount - wow it was hard to adjust to a different focal length than 58mm!

Mar 04, 2009 at 07:27 AM

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p.1 #17 · p.1 #17 · What is your current line up?

I have way too many lenses since I have not sold the ones which don't get any use. I still need one more lens; ultrawide, I'm waiting the Zeiss Distagon 21mm ZE since I have very little use for ultrawide (this far, 17-40mm is not exactly inspiring lens to me...) and don't want to spend big bucks to C/Y version. Currently using 1DmkIII, getting 5DmkII in next week.

Alternative lenses:
Carl Zeiss Distagon T* 2.8/28 - mainly landscapes and sometimes wide angle close-ups, excellent rendering at f/8 and f/11 from corner to corner - center sharpness excellent already wide open
Carl Zeiss Distagon T* 2/35 ZF- have been using this one with 1.3x crop as a normal lens, excellent in all areas specially in 3D rendition of objects, with full frame this becomes wide angle and with wider lens perspective it will look even better. My 2nd most used lens, competing with 2/100ZF about the 1st position, not much behind.
Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonnar T* 3.4/35-70 - have not yet shoot with this one yet, but purchased for travelling (less lenses to carry), people say it's as sharp as primes in it's focal length, I'm not huge fan of zoom lenses and I'm very interested to see if this statement is true or not.
Carl Zeiss Planar T* 1.7/50 - have not yet shoot with this one, normal lens for full frame, very cheap lens.
Carl Zeiss Sonnar T* 2.8/85 - have not yet shoot with this one, cheap short tele and pretty strong 3D rendering based on sample pictures
Carl Zeiss Makro-Planar T* 2/100 ZF - excellent in all aspects except green/magenta fringe in bokeh high contrast areas, my most used lens with 1.3x crop and moving to full frame will not change this.
Carl Zeiss Sonnar T* 3.5/100 - have not yet shoot with this one, reason why I purchased this lens is that I wanted to evaluate this lens myself, based on example photos (e.g. 1, 2) this lens has one of the best 3D effects of Zeiss lenses. Quite cheap lens.
Carl Zeiss Sonnar T* 2.8/135 - have not yet shoot with this one, purchased since the sonnars seem to have pretty strong 3D effect, even not strong performers in sharpness etc. Quite cheap lens.
Carl Zeiss Tele-Tessar T* 3.5/200 - in my quest for 180-200mm lens this lens seemed to be bashed as bad performer by people, but samples I have found show nice 3D effect and generally look good (at sizes available to view) - decided to try it myself since this lens was also quite cheap.
Leica Summicron-R 50 mm f/2.0 - normal lens when Leica rendering preferred
Leica Elmarit-R 90 mm f/2.8 - tele lens when Leica rendering preferred
Leica Vario-Elmar-R 80-200mm f/4 - in my quest for 180-200mm lens this was recommended and for travelling I'm tempted to reduce the number of lenses so the zoom functionality may become handy
Nikon PC-Nikkor 28mm f/3.5 - not using this lens, better results can be achieved with panorama techniques, lens is not sharp as I would like it to be, specially at corners when shifted, low contrast (some like this, I don't)
Nikon PC-Nikkor 35mm f/2.8 - not using this lens, came with the PC28...lens is a soft and low contrast (some like this, I don't)

Canon lenses (underlining = sports/event lens when autofocus needed, bold = used also in situations where autofocus is not needed, normal text = very little use, if any)
Canon EF28mm f/1.8 USM, Canon TS-E45mm f/2.8, Canon EF50mm f/1.4 USM, Canon EF50mm f/1.8 II, Canon EF50mm f/2.5 Compact Macro, Canon EF85mm f/1.8 USM, Canon EF85mm f/1.2 L USM Mark II, Canon EF100mm f/2.8 USM Macro, Canon EF135mm f/2L USM, Canon EF180mm f/3.5 L USM, Canon EF200mm f/2.8L II USM, Canon EF300mm f/2.8L IS USM, Canon EF17-40mm f/4 L USM
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Mar 04, 2009 at 07:34 AM

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p.1 #18 · p.1 #18 · What is your current line up?

that I'm not the only one carried away. I'm planning to thin my lineup out a bit to give me the funds for a D300 but right now this is what I have.

Contax Zeiss 28/2.8 - great on a cropped DSLR
Contax Zeiss 35/2.8 - Sharp edge to edge on FF DSLR
Contax Zeiss 50/1.4 - Awesome at distance, tad soft in close focus
Contax Zeiss 85/2.8 - Great color and sharpness, small package
Contax Zeiss 100/20 - Wow! My favorites for lots of my work
Contax Zeiss 135/2.8 - Nice
Leica R 50/2.0 - Lovely rendering of image
Leica R 60/2.8 macro - Super sharp, creamy bokeh
Leica R 90/2.8 - My portrait lens
Leica R 135/2.8 - Nice
Leica R 180/3.4 APO - Great color and sharpness, another favorite
Leica R 560/6.8 - Light, long, and surprisingly sharp in the center
Pentax SMC 50/1.4 - Sharpest at close focus, corners mush on FF at distance
Pentax SMC 135/3.5 - Small and every bit as sharp and the Leica and Zeiss
Olympus 24/2.8 - Sharp but prone to flare
Olympus 35/2.8 PC - Seems quite good but I have used it much yet
Vivitar Series 1 90/2.5 macro and 1:1 adapter - Sharp and sweet bokeh
Nikon 800/5.6 ED AI-s - Awesome long tele for a decent price
Mamiya 645 - 200/2.8 - Really sharp with sweet colors, front heavy
Mamiya 645 - 80/2.8 - Have not really given this a proper shaking out on a DSLR

The rest:
Canon 70-200/2.8L IS USM - Good sports lens
Canon 400/5.6L USM - Great telephoto
Canon 1.4X t-con
Tokina ATX 17/3.5 - Seems nice, but I just never seem to use it

Mar 04, 2009 at 08:19 AM

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p.1 #19 · p.1 #19 · What is your current line up?

Two bodies, 1DsII and 20D. Two Canon long teles, a 300 f4 and a 600 f4, both non-IS versions (my bird lenses).

Zuiko: 18 f3.5, 21 f3.5, 24 f2.8, 28 f3.5, 50 f1.4, 55 f1.2, 85 f2, 200 f4; two macro lenses for auto bellows: 80 f4, 135 f4.5

Distagon 28 f2.8 (first alt-gear, will never sell it)
Leica 180 f2.8 non-APO (just traded for this with Paul Yi)

I don't see any changes coming here. I paid so little for the Zuikos it wouldn't make sense to sell them. For now, probably shooting Zuikos 95% of the time.

Mar 04, 2009 at 08:22 AM

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p.1 #20 · p.1 #20 · What is your current line up?

Leica 35/2
EF 50/1.8 II (only Canon lens left)
Minolta Rokkor 58/1.2 (JD kit, shaved element shroud) To be listed soon.
Leica 60/2.8 Macro
Leica 80 Lux
CV 90/3.5 APO
Mamiya 150/3.5 C
CV 180/4 APO
Mamiya 200/2.8 APO (+ EF 1.4x)

Use 1DS2, but moving to Nikon soon, so gradually shifting lens to only those that can be mounted to or converted (via leitax) to mount to Nikon.

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