With supply very limited I may pull the trigger on the one I found but common sense tells me to sleep on it. Especially with my LE / filter concerns too. Why would you put a fixed hood on that lens unless you have you're wanting to force people to buy your ND and CP filters too. I can only imagine what a Zeiss CP or ND filter would run. *mind blown*
Does anybody else (than myself) play the "brand colour game"? I use to browse, once in a while, through the last dozen of pages and try to guess whether the pics are made with Canon or Nikon, without looking at the poster and additional infos. A (longer) while ago Canon were about 80-90% of all shots here, meanwhile it is down to maybe 60:40 or almost half half.
Anyway, I have a success rate of roughly 90%. Sometimes I rate a Nikon for Canon, almost never the other way round.
Also the latest models of both (d800 and 5dIII) have a different colour from the older models (d700 and 5dII).
The colour palette I seem to like most is the one of the 5d II. I don't tend to like the Nikons, specially the d700. I switched from 5dII to d700 *and back* twice. d700 being the much better camera, but Nikon colour remaining a frustration for me. On both I use mainly my Zeiss ZF lenses (with adapter on the Canon). I never understand when people say this is a non- issue because once mastering the workflow you can make any camera look the way you like. At least most people can't do it then because Canon tends to look Canon, Nikon like Nikon.
The best color I have seen in this thread BTW was with Fujis EX-1 or whatever it is called, probably Zeiss adapted. Fuji masters colour better than anybody else.
Grenache - superb beach series.
Bob - wonderful interiors.
Hauxon - beautiful shot.
Darwin - a touch of 3D for me too.
Picture This - that reminds me of Africa. Nice shot.
Off to NZ in 6 weeks so instead of 99% birds I'll be putting the 35 and 21 to good use (for close ups of the Kiwi ) !
This series is absolutely outstanding Marty! Are you processing in LR with custom presets? I really like the tone in all of them. Feel free to share a few with a friend... Happy New Year!
EDIT: Just read your description about the presets. I'm getting old.
EDIT 2: So which one version / set did you purchase?
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Happy New Year! 
