10 Mar
2016
10 Mar
'16
7:59 a.m.
On Mar 9, 2016, at 11:37 PM, Paul Anderson <useddec
at gmail.com> wrote:
Popular or Modern Photography 20 or 30 years ago had an article on the 10
best lens ever made. I think Zeiss made 3 of them, and they were the only
company with more than one.
One of my all time favorite lenses is the Hasselblad 80mm f/2.8 Planar C lens made by
Zeiss. Even their low-end Tessar lenses are awesome.
I know there are a lot of great optics out there, but
I still love Zeiss.
I have several Zeiss cameras, binoculars, microscopes, etc.
It?s hard to dislike Zeiss, in fact I don?t know anyone that does. :-)
With everything going digital, and various health
problems, I haven't
touched my Contax RTSs in years. I was planning on buying a digital body to
use my optics, but they never released one.
If anyone knows of a good digital body that will adapt to RTS optics,
please let me know.
Take a look at the Sony a7 series of bodies, people are using RTS lenses on them. You can
put almost anything on them, and they?re a full frame sensor. I know that the wider
lenses might have some fringing issues at the edges. I?ve started looking seriously at
the a7 series, as it would allow me to use a lot of lenses I have, that I can currently
only use on 35mm film bodies.
Since I started shooting more than just Nikon, it?s a lot harder to find Nikon lenses I
really like. The only AF lens I really like is the Nikkor 50mm f/1.4G, at f/5.6 it can
compete with my 50mm Summicron.
Zane