Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/09/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I agree with Marty on this one. It's a nice addition to a D700 kit. While I have the MF Nikkor 35mm f1.4, it is an old formula even though I bought it only 5 years ago. Now I'll have to revisit it and compare it to my Canon 35mm f1.4L and the Leica M asph lens. Thanks for pointing it out John. Len On Sep 3, 2010, at 12:20 AM, Marty Deveney wrote: > This lens has been completely redesigned. The Contax version was 9 > elements in 8 groups and the new is 11 elements in 9 groups. This > fots with Zeiss' current strategy of relying on their great T* coating > to control flare and secondary reflections and to allow that to let > them use a lot of air-glass surfaces and multiple spherical elements. > Their recent 35/2 is my favourite SLR 35 ever, but this new one might > be better. I was a huge fan of the old version on the Aria, and this > one on a D700, F100 or FM size SLR is likely to be really nice, > especially in the absence of a Nikkor AF 35/1.4. > > Marty (Zeiss is Neiss) > > On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 5:48 PM, T. Mike Fletcher > <tmikefletcher at me.com> wrote: >> Who is looking at the light in the background? When you have a >> great looking red head, a glass of wine, and an open space at the >> bar next to her, why not just think am I to old that I think about >> the background and not the foreground? I hope I never get that >> old. T.Mike Fletcher >> On Sep 2, 2010, at 4:51 PM, John Edwin Mason wrote: >> >>> The new Zeiss Distagon T 35/1.4. >>> >>> It's probably just me, but does this bokeh look funky (and not in >>> a good sense) to you? (Warning, large file): >>> >>> http://www.zeiss.de/C125679B0029303C/EmbedTitelIntern/ >>> PI_0141-2010_2-dl/$File/PI_0141-2010_2-dl.jpg >>> >>> http://tinyurl.com/36orv3o >>> >>> More info and another link to the above sample image, here: >>> >>> http://www.zeiss.de/C12567A8003B0478/Contents-Frame/ >>> 08954FB4978B76EEC125710E005F23B5 >>> >>> --John >>> >>> ****************************** >>> John Edwin Mason, Photography: >>> http://www.JohnEdwinMason.com >>> Charlottesville and Cape Town >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information