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p.55 #1What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
Don't mean to solicit but if anybody is looking for an inexpensive OM olympus 28 f/2.8 or f/3.5, PM me. I have to clear out to pay for a lovely makro sonnar that i just purchased!
Jan 28, 2012 at 12:40 PM
p.55 #2What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
Canon FDn 100/2.
Wow. Stunning lens.
Wow. Stunning lens.
Jan 29, 2012 at 08:49 AM
p.55 #3What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
crazeazn wrote:
I have a general question for those who sell stuff on the b/s/t here. I have my camera and some Canon and Olympus lenses listed on POTN (canon specific) forum but have no biters. I'm thinking about paying the fee and listing here. Do you have good results here?
This is probably the best board for selling as well as buying. Lots of traffic, and an excellent feedback arrangement. I've tried selling a thing or two on POTN but, to be honest, its Sell forum pretty much sucks, to put it mildly. No bumping, no ability to leave a negative feedback if the situation warrants, and the constant need for picture of the item, no matter how small (e.g. I was once offering an RRS lens plate in excellent condition and was asked for pictures at various angles, plus top and bottom views...really, for a lens foot?). If you're trying to sell off some older manual focus gear, this would be the best place anyway...seems to be more aficionados here for that type of equipment.
I have a general question for those who sell stuff on the b/s/t here. I have my camera and some Canon and Olympus lenses listed on POTN (canon specific) forum but have no biters. I'm thinking about paying the fee and listing here. Do you have good results here?
This is probably the best board for selling as well as buying. Lots of traffic, and an excellent feedback arrangement. I've tried selling a thing or two on POTN but, to be honest, its Sell forum pretty much sucks, to put it mildly. No bumping, no ability to leave a negative feedback if the situation warrants, and the constant need for picture of the item, no matter how small (e.g. I was once offering an RRS lens plate in excellent condition and was asked for pictures at various angles, plus top and bottom views...really, for a lens foot?). If you're trying to sell off some older manual focus gear, this would be the best place anyway...seems to be more aficionados here for that type of equipment.
Jan 29, 2012 at 11:10 AM
p.55 #4What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
Rokkor 58 1.2 with a 200xxx serial. One of the first ever made, with the radioactive glass. ;-D
Jan 29, 2012 at 12:15 PM
p.55 #5What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
Any day now. A Voigtl�nder 35/1.2 in Leica M mount. And a 12mm too... 
Jan 30, 2012 at 01:43 PM
p.55 #6What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
CV Heliar 15 II. No pictures yet, it's immigrating from Canada.
Jan 30, 2012 at 02:04 PM
p.55 #7What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
Waiting for my Voigtlander 35 F1.2 in the mail as well.
Jan 30, 2012 at 03:59 PM
p.55 #8What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
Zeiss ZF.2 25 F2.0 arrived a couple of days ago.
Jan 30, 2012 at 11:05 PM
p.55 #9What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
received a 5DII and a makro sonnar. I am MIND BLOWN. should have made this move a long time ago.
Jan 30, 2012 at 11:05 PM
p.55 #10What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
I would also like both of the above, but particularly the lens...think I'll wait (wallet forces me to, after many alt lens purchases in the last 6 mths 
)
Now, I'm sure we want to see some results from the combo...
)Now, I'm sure we want to see some results from the combo...
Jan 31, 2012 at 01:01 AM
p.55 #11What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
lenticular11 wrote:
I would also like both of the above, but particularly the lens...think I'll wait (wallet forces me to, after many alt lens purchases in the last 6 mths )
Now, I'm sure we want to see some results from the combo...
I sold 7 lenses to get there lol
I would also like both of the above, but particularly the lens...think I'll wait (wallet forces me to, after many alt lens purchases in the last 6 mths
)Now, I'm sure we want to see some results from the combo...
I sold 7 lenses to get there lol
Jan 31, 2012 at 02:13 AM
p.55 #12What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
crazeazn wrote:
received a 5DII and a makro sonnar. I am MIND BLOWN. should have made this move a long time ago.
did you mean makro planar?
received a 5DII and a makro sonnar. I am MIND BLOWN. should have made this move a long time ago.
did you mean makro planar?
Jan 31, 2012 at 02:36 AM
p.55 #13What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
sebboh wrote:
did you mean makro planar?
There was a Makro Sonnar 100mm/2.8 N for the Contax N camera line. This could be converted to Canon EF, with AF and working shutter.
I am waiting for a Rodenstock Apo Rodagon 75/4, hope I could clean it :-)
crazeazn wrote
received a 5DII and a makro sonnar. I am MIND BLOWN. should have made this move a long time ago.There was a Makro Sonnar 100mm/2.8 N for the Contax N camera line. This could be converted to Canon EF, with AF and working shutter.
I am waiting for a Rodenstock Apo Rodagon 75/4, hope I could clean it :-)
Jan 31, 2012 at 06:51 AM
p.55 #14What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
sebboh wrote:
did you mean makro planar?
nope makro sonnar
crazeazn wrote
received a 5DII and a makro sonnar. I am MIND BLOWN. should have made this move a long time ago.nope makro sonnar
Jan 31, 2012 at 11:58 AM
p.55 #15What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
not an apochromatic lens:
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Jan 31, 2012 at 09:06 PM
p.55 #16What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
^^ whoa!!!
my contax 35/1.4 arrived today. just after sunset so i haven't really put it through it's paces yet, but it looks like exactly what i expected/wanted.
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7147/6800030999_c6a693a5a3_o.jpg
oh, i also grabbed a yashica fx-3 to shoot it on FF and a yashica 50/2 that came with it.
here is the obligatory bench and duck test shot with the 35mm wide open on the NEX:
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7001/6800031771_9ab3f74de8_o.jpg
in case duck shots don't count when the ducks aren't in focus:
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7015/6800031209_4a1678b066_o.jpg
and an mfd shot:
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7004/6800031987_6c0eb5bba8_o.jpg
all wide open of course.
my contax 35/1.4 arrived today. just after sunset so i haven't really put it through it's paces yet, but it looks like exactly what i expected/wanted.
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7147/6800030999_c6a693a5a3_o.jpg
oh, i also grabbed a yashica fx-3 to shoot it on FF and a yashica 50/2 that came with it.
here is the obligatory bench and duck test shot with the 35mm wide open on the NEX:
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7001/6800031771_9ab3f74de8_o.jpg
in case duck shots don't count when the ducks aren't in focus:
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7015/6800031209_4a1678b066_o.jpg
and an mfd shot:
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7004/6800031987_6c0eb5bba8_o.jpg
all wide open of course.
Feb 01, 2012 at 01:31 AM
p.55 #17What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
Congrats, Seboh!
Is that GG park?
Need utilities shoot mine more,been shooting wide 24's a lot lately.
Congrats Michael on the 250SA!
How do you like it so far?
Is that GG park?
Need utilities shoot mine more,been shooting wide 24's a lot lately.
Congrats Michael on the 250SA!
How do you like it so far?
Feb 01, 2012 at 11:21 AM
p.55 #18What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
wayne seltzer wrote:
Congrats, Seboh!
Is that GG park?
yup, stow lake.
tried out the fx-3 today, the build on that thing really makes appreciate my minolta cameras...
Congrats, Seboh!
Is that GG park?
yup, stow lake.
tried out the fx-3 today, the build on that thing really makes appreciate my minolta cameras...
Feb 01, 2012 at 11:32 AM
p.55 #19What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
wayne seltzer wrote:
Congrats Michael on the 250SA!
How do you like it so far?
I've only had one medium-length outing with it so far, plus a few test shots. At some point, when I have more experience myself, I hope to post a more thorough review. However, here are a scattering of initial impressions:
- Color correction is indeed impressive. Where my Leica, Voigtlander, and Mamiya APO glass only shows barely detectable chromatic aberrations (lateral and/or longitudinal) under the most difficult conditions, I have not been able to see any color issues at all from the 250SA -- truly in a class by its own there.
- Resolution and contrast are also excessively high across the frame, at least for my Canon 5D. According to MTFs, a few of my best 35mm-format lenses are technically a bit sharper, but this lens has no sharpness disadvantage in actual use from any other glass I own.
- Thanks to the intended medium format coverage, vignetting and geometric distortion are especially low (what I consider entirely negligible).
- Bokeh can be somewhat unruly, with bright circle points and hard-edged lines. However, related to the low vignetting, the bokeh is pleasingly uniform in character across the frame (no increasingly bizarre shapes towards the corners), so it can form a distinct "impressionist brushstrokes" background plane. I think so long as I am careful to arrange compositions to play this up as a strength rather than a weakness, the lens can produce excellent images.
- The lens needs a hood, or at least a well-placed shading hand (since I don't yet have a hood); out-of-frame direct sunlight on the front element causes veiling. Apparently, Zeiss chose to not T* coat this lens, but only use single coatings to allow uniform transmission into the IR.
- The 3m MFD sometimes feels constraining (I prefer lenses that can at least focus down towards my feet, so I can capture ground-level details). On the plus side, the 3m to infinity range is allotted 270 degrees of focus ring turn --- the most generous of any lens I have for very fine focus adjustment.
- Ergonomics are a bit poor. I don't like the pointy metal focus rings, or the fact that I still have trouble quickly telling the focus ring from the aperture ring and "ornamental" mounting ring by feel alone --- they all feel the same. Stopping down is fiddly, with an additional lever to push; fortunately, I suspect I will mainly be using the lens wide open. Focus movement is very smooth, but a bit stiff (probably fixable with a CLA and lighter helicoid grease). Also, no rotating collar/foot; fortunately, the lens is light enough that I am fine with dangling it straight off the camera mount. The long, skinny, with prickly bulge shape of the lens may be difficult to find a good carrying case for.
Congrats Michael on the 250SA!
How do you like it so far?
I've only had one medium-length outing with it so far, plus a few test shots. At some point, when I have more experience myself, I hope to post a more thorough review. However, here are a scattering of initial impressions:
- Color correction is indeed impressive. Where my Leica, Voigtlander, and Mamiya APO glass only shows barely detectable chromatic aberrations (lateral and/or longitudinal) under the most difficult conditions, I have not been able to see any color issues at all from the 250SA -- truly in a class by its own there.
- Resolution and contrast are also excessively high across the frame, at least for my Canon 5D. According to MTFs, a few of my best 35mm-format lenses are technically a bit sharper, but this lens has no sharpness disadvantage in actual use from any other glass I own.
- Thanks to the intended medium format coverage, vignetting and geometric distortion are especially low (what I consider entirely negligible).
- Bokeh can be somewhat unruly, with bright circle points and hard-edged lines. However, related to the low vignetting, the bokeh is pleasingly uniform in character across the frame (no increasingly bizarre shapes towards the corners), so it can form a distinct "impressionist brushstrokes" background plane. I think so long as I am careful to arrange compositions to play this up as a strength rather than a weakness, the lens can produce excellent images.
- The lens needs a hood, or at least a well-placed shading hand (since I don't yet have a hood); out-of-frame direct sunlight on the front element causes veiling. Apparently, Zeiss chose to not T* coat this lens, but only use single coatings to allow uniform transmission into the IR.
- The 3m MFD sometimes feels constraining (I prefer lenses that can at least focus down towards my feet, so I can capture ground-level details). On the plus side, the 3m to infinity range is allotted 270 degrees of focus ring turn --- the most generous of any lens I have for very fine focus adjustment.
- Ergonomics are a bit poor. I don't like the pointy metal focus rings, or the fact that I still have trouble quickly telling the focus ring from the aperture ring and "ornamental" mounting ring by feel alone --- they all feel the same. Stopping down is fiddly, with an additional lever to push; fortunately, I suspect I will mainly be using the lens wide open. Focus movement is very smooth, but a bit stiff (probably fixable with a CLA and lighter helicoid grease). Also, no rotating collar/foot; fortunately, the lens is light enough that I am fine with dangling it straight off the camera mount. The long, skinny, with prickly bulge shape of the lens may be difficult to find a good carrying case for.
Feb 01, 2012 at 12:03 PM
p.55 #20What is your most recent (alt) lens purchase?
Thanks for the mini review, very interesting lens. I await more of your shots with it.
Feb 01, 2012 at 12:11 PM