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Jan 01, 2012 at 10:44 PM
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p.510 #2ZE/ZF/ZM Images (Official Thread!)
Picture This! wrote:
wow wow, some beautiful pics in the last few pages.

oldmiller, lovely shots with perfect processing.

Here's one from last evening. Sunset, Santa Cruz Natural Bridges. D700 + ZF 21 + Lee 2 stop gnd

http://d.pr/wLcK+


oldmiller wrote:
Happy new year everyone!

ZF85. f/4, D3

http://www.neroli.de/nik/fm/zf/110102_034_85.1.4_4.jpg

Kind regards,
Bernd


wonderful shots guys
Jan 02, 2012 at 12:55 AM
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p.510 #3ZE/ZF/ZM Images (Official Thread!)
Wow great stuffs in just one day! Belated Happy New Year !

IsleofGough - I like the expression on the dog. Very nice capture.

Lieutenant - Very cool Film Noir series. Rainy night, classic car, cobble stone, all make a wonderful mystery.

Jim- Congrats on the 365. Hope this is not the end.

Bob - Beautiful set. I was beginning to miss your landscape shots. Love the #2

reza - Very nice composition. I like the way how you used the signage to frame this shot. Nice color.

Joakim- Beautiful snow scape capture with 85. Love the placement of three trees in the composition.

Bernd - WOW. It is so great to see your work again here. As Ant says, your portraits with 85 are just gorgeous. Superb BW conversion. Simple, powerful, dramatic and elegant.

Picture this - Beautiful shot. Gorgeous color.

jake40509 - Nice capture on the color. I like the layer effect and focus point. Good lighting really helps.

ZF.2 1.4/35













Jan 02, 2012 at 03:26 AM
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OneAnt wrote:
Boy have I got heaps to tell you. Am finished being a beginner. I'm at 45 days and my street photos became my portfolio and I got a place to study that is very special, amazing people that let me be myself (insert naughty grin here). 900+ interviews for only 33 places and they called me the 1% (insert whopping stupid grin here).

For 2years I get to rip out photos from my imagination ...and you should see my design diary, it reads like something of a cross between Barbara Cartland and that dirty little stopout, the marquis de sade.

I start
...Show more →

Wow, that is fantastic, a huge congratulations to you! Will you keep a blog or something where those interested can follow you?
Jan 02, 2012 at 03:31 AM
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p.510 #5ZE/ZF/ZM Images (Official Thread!)
Great shot Luka, looks like film!
Jan 02, 2012 at 03:32 AM
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p.510 #6ZE/ZF/ZM Images (Official Thread!)
OneAnt wrote:
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Boy have I got heaps to tell you. Am finished being a beginner. I'm at 45 days and my street photos became my portfolio and I got a place to study that is very special, amazing people that let me be myself (insert naughty grin here). 900+ interviews for only 33 places and they called me the 1% (insert whopping stupid grin here).

For 2years I get to rip out photos from my imagination ...and you should see my design diary, it reads like something of a cross between Barbara Cartland and that dirty little stopout, the marquis de sade.

I start
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Ant, this sound really exciting. 2 years to get immersed in your work. Very cool. Congrats!
Jan 02, 2012 at 03:32 AM
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p.510 #7ZE/ZF/ZM Images (Official Thread!)
Thank you Carsten ! I think the tiny air bubbles trapped in ice gives the impression of film grain.
Jan 02, 2012 at 03:35 AM
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p.510 #8ZE/ZF/ZM Images (Official Thread!)
Lieutenant Z, wonderful shots of this alltime classic, the Traction!
Jim, nice, and thanks for the smile!
Bob, brilliant trio! Love your snow shot!
Bernd, amazing B&W portrait! Wow!
PictureThis, what a sight! Good work!
Luka, making vintage whisky from lemons are we?

Best wishes to all! Health and good light!
Jan 02, 2012 at 05:27 AM
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p.510 #9ZE/ZF/ZM Images (Official Thread!)
Thanks for the comment Luka!
Bernd, two excellent b&w portraits.
Luka, very nice photo, I especially like how it is divided into a warm and a cold part.
Jan 02, 2012 at 06:14 AM
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p.510 #10ZE/ZF/ZM Images (Official Thread!)
akul, my friend, thank you very much. That's a great one, I love the mellow tone

Thank you, philber, joakim and uzay!

Tony, great news. I can't wait to see the output.


Just a personal one as it belongs here, crossposted with the story from here.

ZF1.4/50, f/2, D3:







Kind regards,
Bernd
Jan 02, 2012 at 09:17 AM
 


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p.510 #11ZE/ZF/ZM Images (Official Thread!)
Bernd,
another nice portrait.How do you like the 50 Planar? Its another lens that seems to get a bad rap on this forum.

Here is one from the 100MP @2.2
-Jim





Jan 02, 2012 at 02:58 PM
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p.510 #12ZE/ZF/ZM Images (Official Thread!)
philber, nice ones, especially since they are shot near minimum focus distance!

Lieutenant Z and Smridevan, beautiful and moody available light impressions! As long as the girls are so beautiful, I don't mind a little blurriness.

Jim Schemel wrote:
Bernd,
another nice portrait.How do you like the 50 Planar? Its another lens that seems to get a bad rap on this forum.


Thanks, Jim. Another great impression from your area, you always have impressive colours.
Well somehow I happen to like those ZFs the most, that the masses do not rave so much about. My line up is ZF18/28/50/85. Note, I had ZF35 and ZF100 long time parallel. This is of course for focal lengths reason and because I especially love the character of these lengths, but it is also valid for their signature. (I cannot speak of the ZF18, I haven't explored it enough yet.)

The 1.4/50 was my first ZF way back some years ago and it made me go Zeiss and sell my Nikon lens equivalents. It is pretty nice and usable wide open (needs a different sharpening) and sometimes the abberations are just wonderful for pictures. It's great from f/2 and simply super the more you stop down. It's a great allrounder and it's the lens that sits on my D3 always. I use it for everything, from clicki-di-clack to special occasions and from travel to portraiture. It's not an über-lens, but I find it real great and love it. And you know, there are not many 50s available that feature the Zeiss colors and look.
Last year I sold it and got the 50MP instead, but I didn't like that for what I do and bought the 1.4/50 back again only a few months later. There were some discussions last year about these two 50 in this thread and I remember philber showing a lot of nice work with his 1.4/50.


Two recent ones, both ZF1.4/50, f/2.8, D3













Ah, and one of my most loved ones. The same boy by the way. I was absolutely sure I had shown it here long time ago, but it seems I never did, so here it is (Hello Tony!).

ZF1.4/50, f/1.4, D700







Kind regards,
Bernd
Jan 02, 2012 at 07:14 PM
Tariq Gibran
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p.510 #13ZE/ZF/ZM Images (Official Thread!)
Just putting the ZF.2 35/2 through some testing. Thus far, detail and contrast are pretty impressive, even into the extreme corners. This on my A900.

Testing for detail, F8 I believe:





100% crops:
Extreme top rt corner





Near top center






Everything seems to come to gather rather well with this lens in changing light:





Jan 02, 2012 at 07:42 PM
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p.510 #14ZE/ZF/ZM Images (Official Thread!)
Beautiful shots, happy new years everyone!

Just love the 35/1.4 for portraits:


Architecture:

Jan 03, 2012 at 07:56 PM
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p.510 #15ZE/ZF/ZM Images (Official Thread!)
wow beautiful girl and portraits, noodlz9!
Jan 03, 2012 at 10:09 PM
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p.510 #16ZE/ZF/ZM Images (Official Thread!)
D700 + Zf21 + Lee 2 stop gnd

Jan 03, 2012 at 11:30 PM
Lars Johnsson
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p.510 #17ZE/ZF/ZM Images (Official Thread!)
Noodlz79, great shots
Jan 04, 2012 at 03:24 AM
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p.510 #18ZE/ZF/ZM Images (Official Thread!)
The thing that becomes most apparent in all the pictures in this thread is that for all the qualities of any Zeiss lens you can see the photographer above everything else. I will never stop being amazed.
Look at the pictures on this page and look at how happy and broke Smridevan is.

Jan 04, 2012 at 05:40 AM
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p.510 #19ZE/ZF/ZM Images (Official Thread!)
Bob,
Nice series with the 21.

Here are a few i took a while ago that did not make it up on my 365 project.All taken with
100MP
-Jim

f2





f2.2





f8





f2





f2





f2



Jan 04, 2012 at 04:34 PM
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p.510 #20ZE/ZF/ZM Images (Official Thread!)
I just love the 100 at f/2. Nice set Jim.
Jan 04, 2012 at 05:28 PM


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