Great shots wfrank. I find the contax is brilliant under cloudy or wet conditions, in brighter sun the purple fringing takes over wide open and you have to be a little more careful. The contax seems to be able to really pull out the textures and contrast when it's dull outside
Congrats Wilhelm on getting the C/Y 35/1.4 and C/Y 100/2! My favorite and only C/Y lenses.
I agree with you that the C/Y 35/1.4 is better in non-harsh light, the new ZE 35/1.4 is better at handling sunny/harsh light conditions better. I also like the bokeh of the 100/2 P better for landscape as it is less contrasty and less nervous than the 100MP bokeh which I have seen in this forum.
The 3-d rendered by both these C/Y lenses make shooting with them such a joy and give a unique signature to the shots. Really like your tulip shot, nice bokeh and colors.
Note to self, watch out for Carsten's assassins.
Yes indeed wayne, those two are really nice. Good that you & sculptormic came out of the closet so Carsten will be confused as to where to send his henchmen I personally really like the 50P too and will still have to see whether the 85/1.4 or 100/2 will be most used. Both of them are awesome.
jotdeh, obvisouly a dutchman would react to the tulip :-)
seb, what a sweet summery dress, bunny and of course that lovely daughter.
sculpt, I dont see what needs to be learnt but I usually fail do spot those small differencies in bokehs that people here storm about. I shoot wideopen and had another 35/1.4 last year and it's the same with a 5D2. With EVF focusing it's quick and precise, but on the 5N it isnt. Click to enlarge, enlarge again, possibly adjust focus area, then focus, half-press shutter to check comp, finally shutter. That's a lot of steps and essentially why I moved back to the 5D2. The NEX have other virtues but it aint speed.
Two more from yesterday. Dont really know what to do with portrait shots here, I dont like them small so I do them big - but then they probably wont fit in most peoples screens. On the other hand it gives a good hint of the detailing I think..
Well wfrank, you sound a little defenitive and teachy like talking to your grandson.
I did not use the word learn, but what I ment is that you want to make use of that lens in a special way and find out what it's best strengts is and use it that way.
I also like to use this lens not wide open.
I know it is easy to make bokehshots with any lens and most of them turn out nice. I know because I churned out hundreds of them with many sorts of lenses.
The shots we see here (mine and yours) don't really need fast focussing but I can say that focus peaking does help. Not always but it is a great feature for MF focussing. Never used the 5D, so I don't know about that.
BTW I shot a poppy to pop in case you thought it was a tulip.
Portrait works well for me, I'm using a new iPad to view this forum usually so go large!
You inspired me to dig out the 35 again today as its been a while. I shot some photos of my step dads rally car on the drive after yesterday's track day. It was raining so didn't get too many shots as I was trying to keep the lens as dry as possible. Will post in a month or so, I seem to be quite slow from shooting to processing to uploading to my site at the moment!
By the way, I just noticed that the purple fringing seems to disappear on the in focus regions at about f/1.8. Just a smidge before the f2 click. Doesn't rid the LOCAs but certainly a good tip when shooting contrasty images like the names stickers on the side of the rally car windows...
I think too that you might under estimate how unique these images might be to someone from somewhere else. I'd never see snow or any of these places I've never been.
How crazy would we all be if I did giant red kangaroos or black cockatoos and yowies (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yowie) all day with a 35/1.4 ...am surrounded by them and would bore the pants off you.
[Note: this has been an answer to the deleted post(s) from Light_pilgrim. What happened to all the other posts on this topic? Where they deleted by each poster or automatically?]
Don't forget that this forum is primarily about gear. Irregardless of how artistic, etc., an image appears in the view of one perceiver, all these images are very informative about how a lens renders and how it behaves in different and sometimes demanding situations. I appreciate this information very much and I can also see a beauty in the rendering, clarity, bokeh, etc. of a lens itself.
If you're looking for composites, heavily processed images, etc., this is maybe the wrong place, because those pictures can often be taken with whatever lens. Here you can find primarily examples of pure lens performance.
Both approaches complement each other nicely although IMO. FM is my favorite place to post (and look for) images that show the characteristics of a lens, whereas I post my more processed images at 500px.com or 1x.com .
Wilhelm, were all your shots from last page and this page wide open? The rendering of old Mercedes was quite nice, but I would have expected even more from so "optimal" target (wet surface with waterdrops in it), maybe the beige color didn't work as well darker colors in such situations.
Carsten. But really, you have a number of lenses in your inventory that would cover the cost for both Contax:es.
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