Just bought a Carl Zeiss Planar ZM 50mm f2

[kully]

Yes, the photo must already be on a HTTP server somewhere.

Save Day of the Triffids for a winters day when you have the Flu or something, if you make too big a deal out of it... it won't be as good 🙂

 

[Terao]

And make sure its the truly chilling BBC serialisation from the early '80s rather than the '50s B-movie 🙂

 

[Rico]

Best of all, read the book. John Wyndham's oeuvre is really quite excellent. For fans of killer plants on video, I recommend the Dr Who episode "Seeds of Doom": great story, great characters. Tom Baker and Liz Sladen were never better.

 

[jeffdkennel]

I really love that lens....here are some of my shots.

Damn...the inline link not working for me!

Please see some examples here (whole front page with Zeiss 50mm f/2...as of 10/28/07):

www.jdksnaps.blogspot.com

 

[jbf]

Some great shots there Jeff. Love your take on Jan cain's photo. 🙂

 

[Marc-A.]

Simon, what's the news? How does your Planar feel? Any pictures to share?

 

[OurManInTangier]

Simon, what's the news? How does your Planar feel? Any pictures to share?

Hi Marc,

I've put a roll of Fuji Reala through it and a roll of Delta 400 too, I'm so busy with work at the moment I haven't been able to take that much.

It does something pretty wonderful with colour film that my old Canon 1.8 just can't get close to. It also seems to have an amazing feeling of depth to the images it produces that has really impressed me...I think it could be my best buy so far.

I'll post some of the shots I've done with it here later, work first unfortunately(!) but I haven't taken any good pictures yet so it'll just be examples of colour rendition, bokeh etc.

 

[OurManInTangier]

Okay, I'll attempt to put a couple of pics up that I've taken with the new lens. As I say, I haven't had much chance to get out and about with it so you'll have to put up with a pretty crap colour pic and a triptych thing I did where all the pics were taken with the Planar.

Hopefully I'll be able to get out soon and get some proper shooting done with it!


Alright, I sneaked in a cheeky b/w of a dog on a bus but I quite like it despite it being OOF and showing very little...it was with the Planar at least😛

 

[goo0h]

I haven't had much of a chance to shoot much with it despite having it since this Summer, but so far I'm rather liking this lens. Nothing great, but so far these are perhaps my favorite shots with this lens:

http://flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=1312370988&size=l

(Using an Epson 2450 scanner that was given to me, so keep that in mind WRT sharpness and whatnot.)

And this one was shot with Kevin sitting right next to me:

http://flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=1311407731&size=l

So yes, the .7 meter close focus is indeed handy at times.

 

[Marc-A.]

Nice pictures Simon. I like the one with the dog especially.
I find the Planar very good for color. Here are two pictures I took lately (first color shots with the Planar; I use it on my Zeiss Ikon).

 

[kshapero]

Nice pictures Simon. I like the one with the dog especially.
I find the Planar very good for color. Here are two pictures I took lately (first color shots with the Planar; I use it on my Zeiss Ikon).

You might try a blue filter, 80a, on those pesty indoor shoots.

 

[jbf]

Im pretty sure you can fix the color issues in lightroom quite easily. (or aperature if thats what you prefer).

 

[Marc-A.]

Thanks for the tip, guys. But why do you think I would like to correct or adjust the color of the picture taken indoor. I could have done that in Photoshop. I just like it the way it is 🙂 Plus the colors are rather accurate; it was just a bit darker in reality.

 

[ncd_photo]

I'm with you Mark, I like the warm feel to the bottom photograph

 

[Prosaic]

Would love to see some more color samples with the Planar.

Did anyone compare the Planar to the CV 50/1.5 Nokton by the way?