ZE 100 Makro-Planar at f/2 (Canon 6D)
The image shows why I will never get rid of this lens. Wide open it delivers a sweet mix of mild planar haze and Zeiss 3D rendering. Not very 3D pop yet I still love it.
AlexDROP wrote:
Hi, FMers.
Glad to find myself in this thread again and meet familiar old members as well as new ones. Zeiss magic is still here and I look at all these new images with admiration and pleasure to my eyes.
I have a short experience with ZE lenses as I own only 100 MP and used to have 50P. As a side note here's a link to my Zeiss images (copy&paste to make it work).
Zeiss classic optical qualities attract my attention even more nowadays. So I decided to add to my beloved ZE 100MP a few more lenses which I'm not sure about yet. But the question is not about lenses. It is about a camera body.
Currently I shoot with 2 D750 bodies and Nikon zooms and still have an EOS 6D which one I'd like to upgrade to a ML EVF camera for use with ZE lenses exclusively. All new Zeiss lenses I plan to add will be in ZE mounts. And I can't swap ZE 100 MP for ZF.2 version cuz where I live 2-hand Zeiss lenses market is dead. So I assume my choice of cameras is narrowed to Canon R and Sony Alpha MILCs. If someone has short or long term experience with both e.g. EOS R and 7a3(R), could you please share it with me in this thread. I don't want to start a new topic in C/S gear threads to attract people not familiar with Zeiss manual lenses so I post my question here.
I particularly interested in points of MF aid, customization, the need of IBIS, battery life and shadow recovery cuz Nikon cameras spoiled me in this regard. New FW 1.2.0 for Canon R is supposed to solve banding issue, could anyone confirm it? Does someone utilize Dual-RAW function for thin DOF focus adjustment in pp? Is IBIS a game-changer considering Zeiss lenses have f/1.4-2 mostly?...Show more →
I have EOS RP, been shooting with classic 1.4/50 planar, it’s a night and day difference when manually focusing, I use blue focus peaking it”s spot on and less focus errors compared to my canon dslrs., I got more keepers with RP.
ReyGay, super shots. That Loxia 21mm is sweet. About those Japanese trains: the green one with the mile-long snout. Can you tell us more about this nose cone?
having a look at the fantastic photographs of this thread, i always wander if the quality of the photographs come from the zeiss lenses or from the ability of the photographer
anybody has an opinion comparing ze/zf lenses and loxia lenses for the sony camera?
hanay78 wrote:
having a look at the fantastic photographs of this thread, i always wander if the quality of the photographs come from the zeiss lenses or from the ability of the photographer
Both, I think. But some Zeiss lenses definetely have their own specific and distinguashable look.
hanay78 wrote:
anybody has an opinion comparing ze/zf lenses and loxia lenses for the sony camera?
Comparing IQ wise? Or weight comparison?
All zeiss lenses are sharp and flare resistant. Each Zeiss lens has its own rendering. What exact lenses are you interested in?
AlexDROP wrote:
Both, I think. But some Zeiss lenses definetely have their own specific and distinguashable look.
Comparing IQ wise? Or weight comparison?
All zeiss lenses are sharp and flare resistant. Each Zeiss lens has its own rendering. What exact lenses are you interested in?
the photographs i see here have something magic. i have had contax lenses. i own loxias, but this here looks like more quality more contrast magic colors... maybe the a7rii is not the best platform, and still canikon delivers more beautiful colors and or contrast. otus milbus lenses looks like a magic rendering at the prize of course of a large size and weight. is quality in general much better than with loxs?
Nice to see this thread still going. This has been a disastrous year for flowers due to the weather - not much to show for it, but here's a recent one. Black-eyed susan in the garden; 135/2 ZE on Panasonic S1r.
hanay78 wrote:
the photographs i see here have something magic. i have had contax lenses. i own loxias, but this here looks like more quality more contrast magic colors... maybe the a7rii is not the best platform, and still canikon delivers more beautiful colors and or contrast. otus milbus lenses looks like a magic rendering at the prize of course of a large size and weight. is quality in general much better than with loxs?
It's hard for me to determine *the quality* factor you speak of, but I can say that Loxia lenses have narrow native apertures than Otus and Milvus so there's bokeh and DoF difference of course. Both Batis and Loxia lines have 10 aperture blades that are NOT circular, so stepped down there's difference in bokeh as well. For landscape work there's no diffference but for DoF it is there because optical design of e.g. Loxia and Milvus series is different due to flange distance. Maybe it is the reason.
IMHO Loxia thin DoF images look flatter to me while Classic and Milvus pictures retain Zeiss 3D rendering much better and have lovely OOF blur. Sigma new (Art) optical formulas remind more classic Zeiss look than Loxia series.
