Thanks for the tip on the two galleries. Both have some very fine work. The more I look at members work the more I love this forum. There are some truly tallented folks here that need to be hanging their work in galleries and museums.
From everything I've heard and my personal experience with the 35 1.2 and my 25 S mount for my Nikon the CV lenses are more than a bargain. The build is excellent on both of mine and both are very fine performers. While I like Leitz and Zeiss glass i don't feel they have the market cornered on quality and don't feel quality is directly connected to price. That's one of the reasons I purchased the Nokton over the asph summilux 35. Over the decades of shooting M's I've owned about thirty five Leitz lenses of relatively current vintage or new and more than twice that in Nikkor, Zeiss and Canon glass. I'm not ashamed to say that each manufacturer make fine lenses with each making some lenses better than others but none have the market totally cornered in quality. Each maker has focal lengths they do better than anyone else but ones that aren't as good as others.
I hope you get a chance to scan some of your images and look forward to seeing them. The ultron is high on my list at the moment.
I'm planning to do a little side by side of the three 35's that i have, Biogon, v4 summicron and Nokton, and i think I will throw in my 35 2.5 S nikkor, 35 2.8 f nikkor, and canon 34 1.4L. I did a little test about a year ago with my 35 1.4 canon L and my 1960's vintage Nikkot F mount. I have a Nikon to Canon adapter and shot them on my 1DsmkII. I also compared the 24 1.4 L, 24 2.8 1960's f nikkor, and 105 nikkor with my 85 1.2 L. I was absolutely amazes when enlarging the raw file to 100% how the Nikkors compared. F stop to F stop the 1st genration Nikkors were as sharp with much less chromatic aberations than the new canon L glass. The contrast was slightly lower on the Nikkor due to old coatings but the resolution and aberations beat the Canon. The 105 was truly amazing in that it was about as sharp wide open as it was stopped down. The test confirmed my impression of Nikon glass back in the 60's. I always felt the 24 and 105 were the tops money could buy.
It might be a couple of weeks before I can run the test. October is the busiest month in the studio and I've been working eighty hours a week.
