Luka, your CA crop is quite similar to what I frequently see with the CV 75 f/1.8
Maybe you should have picked up that 85 Sonnar after all Even if it's bigger than you liked. But based on what I've read it suffers from some LoCA like many fast non-APO lenses. Seems like very slim pickings once beyond 50mm...
Sometime last week Boris posted in the ZE/ZF thread that the 85 Sonnar isn't discontinued, just that Zeiss has pulled it from the website. My Zeiss supplier indicated that his contact at Zeiss advised him last week: "They have to make them in batches of 200.... which he (the Zeiss rep) thought would take years to sell... so they dropped it."
And nice 'red' set
Phil: My guess is the Fuji is the first image. It has a lot more depth of field and the corners are too sharp and not swirly Maybe you can do a comparison with it against the 35 Biogon once you receive it.
LL: very nice portrait - congrats on the lens. I think of all the Leica lenses, that will probably be the first one I eventually get. I love 50mm and it appears to be too good a lens not to get.
Joe - nice McD image! The guy's definitely giving off an attitude with that stance.
I generally like the C-Biogon. For a lot of my walk-around type stuff I usually work stopped down a fair amount anyway so I'm not really looking for the shallow DoF look that often in such situations. But for people type photos when I want to separate from the background, I have to be pretty close to achieve that with a 35mm at f/2.8. In those situations I'm generally working with the 50 instead. For the money, the C-Biogon a very nice lens, but it's definitely not pushing any boundaries.
Thanks everyone for your comments!
Some more green:
M9 & ZM50P except for the last two with the CV75 f/1.8. The second last image is pretty much at minimum focusing distance vs. the Planar at about the same distance (90cm).
Here's a C-Biogon 35mm at about MFD and f/2.8 (or very close to wide open - it would have been within 1/3 of a stop but I don't remember exactly). A friend's kid, not mine
Thanks Phil. I spent a bit of time in the field with the rusty fence post... eventually when I looked down, everywhere I walked there were little black spiders running around in the grasses. Felt a bit creepy. At first I thought they were crickets, but there wasn't any chirping At least none of them climbed up inside my pant legs
charles.K wrote:
Ron, I really like the shots with the ZM 50/2 Plannar! I feel this lens is one of those quiet achievers.
+1
Indeed, they look very nice.
I'm home again after working 2 weeks in the US and while I have taken a lot of photos during my visit I have not had much time processing them, I have also been following this thread but have not had much time to comment on the many great photos posted in the meanwhile. Hopefully this will change now so that I can post some more of my US photos and start commenting on your work again.
WOW! What a weekend of shooting for you guys. Great work. Ron - your green series is fantastic, that colors are excellent! Your other sets are excellent as well, but the colors on that one really stick out. Charles, Luka, Malkovic, great sets. Phil, nice work with the 50 Noct. LL congrats on the new glass.
This construction set has gone on too long...time to wrap it up
Ron, love the new green set. #1, 2 ,5 & last pic are my favorites.
Charles, love the depth and sharpness on the 35Lux shot! The colors on the 90CronV3 are also excellent! Good catch with the seagull, I love the rendering of the 75Lux, especially your copy of it!
LL, I can see you are having fun with your new lens. Nice shot! Super sharp.
Joakim, looking forward to your pics!
Malkovic, #1 and #2 are really nice. Are these all Portra 400? Which version of the 50Cron do you have?
Ryan, nice set with the 90 Elmarit. Cheap is not a word normally associated with this thread? I like the lady in pink shot on the second set.
Charles - great images with excellent tonality. I am enjoying the 50 Planar. It's very nice quality for the price (compared to Leica). I am having some trouble getting more distant subjects spot on wide open. I also see similar front focusing with the ZM35C in similar situations... so I suspect it's the rangefinder. But for the most part at farther distances I'm usually working stopped down a fair amount, so in practice it hasn't been a serious issue yet. For close in work the focus error doesn't appear to be significant.
LL - the new lens looks good! Definitely on my future acquisition list.
joakim - welcome home - I'm also looking forward to the images!
Malkovic - another nice set - I've yet to make it to Prague. Perhaps someday. Based on your photos it looks to offer a great variety for photography.
Ryan - a very interesting selection once again. I especially like the random scenes and color around town.
Joe - wow, a great moment! The B&W treatment is very rich and there is so much detail to the image.
Here's the last of my 'green' series from the walk in the woods. Getting close to dusk I decided to do some off trail exploration in an area I'd never been (I've lived in the area for over 30 years). Based on old aerial photos of the city from the 20s through 50s I recently found online, there were several small brickworks before the area I live in transitioned from farmland to residential, starting in the 1910s until about 1950. And one of the old brickworks was located in an area that is now a conservation area woodlot behind houses built in the 40s. So that's where I went, and made a nice discovery - an abandoned garden that one of the home owners made outside their property, including now overgrown paths made from old bricks. Down the side of a slope I found a couple large piles of old bricks, which were probably remnants of the brickworks torn down at some point between the 1934 and 43 aerial photos I studied. It was a cool find to make - to find actual physical evidence in the middle of the woods of what I observed in 70-80 year old photos.
I'm not sure if this brick was from the brickworks. It doesn't match the color or consistency of the hundreds of other bricks and brick fragments scattered around the site... but it looked nice enough for a photo.
The brick paths weren't all that photogenic, but there was some nicely weathered garden furniture:
M9 with ZM50P for 1, 2 and 6; ZM35C for 3 and 4; ZM21 for 5
Even if it's bigger than you liked. But based on what I've read it suffers from some LoCA like many fast non-APO lenses. Seems like very slim pickings once beyond 50mm...
Love those Green BG! and that corrosion is to die for, nice indeed!
