Season of Touit - Picture 2 Week 33, Wednesday - Meet the Zeiss Touit 2.8/12
"Before I received these lenses I didn't have any experience of Zeiss. Being a photography enthusiast I knew about the Zeiss's reputation and had read about it on various sites, but didn't have any firsthand experience. Mainly because of this reputation I was very interested to see the lenses in my own hand and find out what was all the fuzz about. In short, I had my expectations about the ZEISS quality and to make a positive first impression Zeiss would need to fulfill these expectations – not necessarily an easy job regarding that there is a certain hype around Zeiss and where crowds get together expectations build up at accelerating speed (that's the way the internet works).
What struck me first when I opened the Touit 2.8/12 package was how small and compact the lens is. [...]"
Modified NEX-6 (Astro mod, AA less , requires very strong WB correction) and Samyang 12mm/2. One thing I really dislike about the Samyang is the ugly sunstars from its hexagon aperture.
Jman13 wrote:
That first one is phenomenal. A wall hanger for sure.
Thanks Jordan.
The WX man predicts another big round of thunderstorms tonight from the monsoon pattern. Last evening had a big lighting displays and wind damage with flooding all around Phoenix.
Harry Palmer
Season of Touit - Picture 3 Week 34, Wednesday - Meet the Zeiss Touit 2.8/50M
"The other lens I'm going to use for this season is the Zeiss Touit 2.8/50M. Compared to Touit 2.8/12 the 2.8/50M is clearly bigger and heavier, though weights almost the same at 290 grams. I've always thought that lens size doesn't matter as long as it delivers good optical quality. Touit 2.8/50M makes me reconsider this stance. Not saying it's too big, but 2.8/50M is definitely closer to upper limit what I personally feel is acceptable. Having a small and compact mirrorless camera, like Sony Nex-5N, has given me a lot of flexibility and inspiration and this is surely something I don't want to jeopardize. However, comparing the Touit 2.8/50M to other options makes it clear that it is actually a very compact lens for what it does. The other macro lenses from Zeiss (Makro-Planar 2/50 & 2/100) weight approximately double and are therefore substantially bigger and heavier. Considering that Touit also has full autofocus capabilities which other Makro-Planars don't offer, it becomes clear that Zeiss has done a wonderful job with it.
Like it's wide-angle brother, the Touit 2.8/50M has a great build quality and the same modern Zeiss look [...]"
First time contributing to this thread (or any images thread for that matter)! Walked around downtown Vancouver for about an hour to test out my new a6000. I only have the 16-50 kit lens so far.
I should say there have been so many over the months in your two series I have admired - a veritable tour de force.
I'm pleasently surpirsed by your compliments since I rarely get any comments here at Fred Miranda forums. Thanks for the kind words! :-)
Fionn wrote:
I must get busy, but I've still not quite worked out if there's a fee for uploading shots! :-) I just link everything straight from my Flickr-account. Fast and easy.
I'm by no means a professional photographer, and could never match the photos in this board...but I figured I'd throw a few of mine into the mix. I picked up a NEX-6 a year ago for it's small size on backpacking trips and it has never ceased to amaze me.
@SWarnock: Impressive what you achieve with this camera! Especially like the last one with the colors. Did you use the onboard flash and some PP since colors and contrast are very well balanced?
Sigma 60/2.8. Awesome light this morning, but it didn't last long. I was only able to catch the tail end of it, unfortunately (missed some awesome looks before I was able to actually get somewhere to take a shot). Devolved to boring gray within 3 minutes of this shot, which was the first one I took after pulling my camera out.
