IndyFab wrote:
Recently picked up a ZM 85 tele and I am curious to know if any other ZM lenses will work as well on a stock A7rIII, or will they need some type of front filter, as the ZM 85 needs none.
Looking more so for landscape use.
Thanks
Other than the 85/4 ZM, I wouldn't consider using other zm lenses on 7ArIII, as they are all compromised on edge performance. You may consider the Zeiss Loxia 21/25/35/50 for compact manual focus. The Loxia 35/2 and 50/2 have very similar optical designs to the ZM 35/2 and ZM 50/2.
Hello, FMers.
Happy to see the thread alive and to find new contributors as well.
I do remember the time it was started almost 1 thousand pages ago and those posts and images of @denoir, @makten, @samuli vahonen, @philip_pj and @gunzorro that made me want to dive into ZE/ZF line and buy a copy of ZE 100MP. And I am amazed what @micke.vmix does. Thank you for sharing inspiration among us fellows. And I did a few contributions to the thread as well And I did a few contributions to the thread as well
Now I need an advice about gear considering Zeiss manual lenses and I would like to thank you all who comments on it.
I own 100MP ZE version and want to add 50P. Also I have EF 16-35/4 L IS which I want to use in the future because of beautifully defined starbursts. And I have Canon 6D which I want to replace by a newer camera. The question is what it is the camera. I do travel photography incl. cityscapes so high MP count is a good bonus. I have a few to decide from: Canon R6, Sony a7RM3 and Nikon Z6II.
• I need a camera that is comfortable for acquiring manual focus. Which is the best?
• 50P has a focus shift. Is it possible to have aperture/DOF preview and focus magnification at the same time (for a lens with electronic aperture – ZE version)?
• Canon R cameras have curtains down protecting the sensor from entering dust. Are they so good compared to Sony/Nikon ones? Is it a real advantage or a marketing bait?
• Considering dust issue for MILC Canon EF-R adapters are sealed with rubber gaskets on both sides. Is it a real advantage? Or could I simply add a protecting filter like a Kase Sony Alpha Clip-In Filter (available for Nikon Z cameras as well)?
I have to remove Canon R and Nikon Z5 away from the list as Canon R has some banding issues when lifting shadows and Nikon Z5 has pronounced heat noise at long exposures – two scenarios I use for night cityscaping.
AlexDROP_2.0 wrote:
Hello, FMers.
Happy to see the thread alive and to find new contributors as well.
I do remember the time it was started almost 1 thousand pages ago and those posts and images of @denoir@, @makten@, @samuli vahonen@, @philip_pj@ and @gunzorro@ that made me want to dive into ZE/ZF line and buy a copy of ZE 100MP. And I am amazed what @micke.vmix@ does. Thank you for sharing inspiration among us fellows. And I did a few contributions to the thread as well And I did a few contributions to the thread as well
Now I need an advice about gear considering Zeiss manual lenses and I would like to thank you all who comments on it.
I own 100MP ZE version and want to add 50P. Also I have EF 16-35/4 L IS which I want to use in the future because of beautifully defined starbursts. And I have Canon 6D which I want to replace by a newer camera. The question is what it is the camera. I do travel photography incl. cityscapes so high MP count is a good bonus. I have a few to decide from: Canon R6, Sony a7RM3 and Nikon Z6II.
• I need a camera that is comfortable for acquiring manual focus. Which is the best?
• 50P has a focus shift. Is it possible to have aperture/DOF preview and focus magnification at the same time (for a lens with electronic aperture – ZE version)?
• Canon R cameras have curtains down protecting the sensor from entering dust. Are they so good compared to Sony/Nikon ones? Is it a real advantage or a marketing bait?
• Considering dust issue for MILC Canon EF-R adapters are sealed with rubber gaskets on both sides. Is it a real advantage? Or could I simply add a protecting filter like a Kase Sony Alpha Clip-In Filter (available for Nikon Z cameras as well)?
I have been extremely happy with Sony FF platform for MF lenses, including the Zeiss ZE/ZF series. My only “issue “ with the has been the relative balance on the smaller format camera. These lenses feel very front heavy with Zeiss glass, compared to a traditional, heavy SLR. This is not a Sony-specific comment and instead applies to any mirrorless system with dense, heavy glass on the front. Battery grip can help there.
50P is a decent lens, but focus shift with it is brutal. This can be easily mitigated by stopping down and using the EVF in a mirrorless system...but is easiest for me with aperture control directly on the lens (ZF series, rather than ZE). In my opinion, the 50MP is special, but the 50P is not as good as many other MF 50s, including the older Contax 50/1.4.
I have both a Sony a7Riii and a7iii. Both are great. They are nominally identical, except for resolution.
The Z* 50/1.4 Planar is not very "good" from a strictly technical perspective, if you shoot wide open at relatively close range, that's true. But there is so much more than that to a lens. It's still the nicest 50 I know of, and I still have one that I occasionally use on the GFX 50R. Unfortunately it gives too much curvature of field on that camera to use the full sensor, but it's fine at 33x33 mm and from ~f/2.4 or so.
The balance on smaller cameras is somewhat bad because of the longish adapter you need. But it's still a fairly small lens, so not really a problem IMO. Just not as good as native Voigtländers or similar.
