I love it! I'm late to the game after six days of relatives visiting from out of town, but this is precisely the comparison I was encouraging you to make. As I read folks "educated" guesses, which were all over the place, I was musing about a $200 lens being favorably compared with two lenses that cost over a thousand dollars more. Nikon shooters really are blessed to have these outstanding old lenses available to mount on our cameras. I took five MF lenses and NO AF lenses during my recent trip to the Netherlands and had a glorious time shooting. The D700 makes shooting manual focus a joy! Putting a 28-70 f/2.8 on my camera on Sunday was almost painful, but it was what the occasion called for.
Thanks Todd for giving us all the opportunity to consider this old gem. And thanks to all the FMers who spoke so highly of this lens in the past. It was my first MF purchase and will likely remain in my kit so long as I shoot Nikon...
I too got here too late, after the answers had been posted, but made my guesses anyway:
A) Zeiss
B) 105mm
C) Zoom
The interesting thing for me is that I liked C the least. This is the second time I do a blind test and turn out to like the Zeiss the least. I don't own any Zeiss lenses but have been wanting to get one since they are so highly praised. Now I'm beginning to wonder if I shouldn't just stick with what I have. After all, I'm really happy with it and I'm probably not good enough to appreciate the Zeiss greatness.
Helena, on this set the focus is probably furthest back on the Zeiss image, which has a lot to do with the look. I would look at more images before deciding something like that. There is a huge Zeiss thread on nikoncafe with loads of photos from the 100MP, and there are also quite a lot around here, although more scattered.
