Crazy about the Planar 50mm - pics thread

[icebear]

In case I do get close enough the Planar is my most used lens:

 

[icebear]

running, f2... 100 tmax... 6::00pm by Helen Hill, on Flickr

Fascinating shot, Helen. I'm still not able to figure out what is created by camera movement and what of the white curves is actually a solid structure. Where is it?

 

[DwF]

While I am still jazzed about my 50 Sonnar, I am enjoying this thread inspired by the Planar.

Helen all of these (need for edit notwithstanding🙂 look great! I guess I agree the edit helps but my eye was immediately drawn to the two anyway fwiw.

Klaus, It is great to see Chick and co. as you've captured them here and I am particularly drawn to the light you've captured on that last image of the table and chairs under globe lights.

John, your image of figures in the sand is a striking and a very classic look. I like this one.

David

 

[helen.HH]

Klaus,
it's a new Installation at 23 and Fifth
between Madison Park and 'Eataly'
Great shots Klaus ... Mono & Miss Planar

Hi 'DWF' , very kind, Thanks much !!

 

[helen.HH]

100 tmax...




Reflections,,, by Helen Hill, on Flickr

 

[Bille]

Any reason to pick a Planar 50 over the Summicron 50? Price? I´m curious.

 

[Bille]

😉


F1030003 by areality4all, on Flickr

Wow... nice

 

[icebear]

Klaus,
it's a new Installation at 23 and Fifth
between Madison Park and 'Eataly'
Great shots Klaus ... Mono & Miss Planar
....

Hi Helen,
it looks like you changed the picture in the post? Although the pervious one looked partly blurry, I liked it better than the one that you show now😉

 

[cz23]

 

[Scapevision]

Rainy by Scapevision, on Flickr

 

[Mjd-djm]

Reaching by Matt Dowd, on Flickr

 

[FrozenInTime]

Reaching by Matt Dowd, on Flickr

The wide open focus differentiation works well and you certainly caught the moment.

 

[SaveKodak]

Does anyone know why the design choices between the 50/1.4 (SLR) Planar and 50/2 (RF) Planar were so different? The 50/2 seems to have been designed with pure performance in mind, where as the 50/1.4 seems to be more about general aesthetic rendering. They're both beauties IMO, but I do wonder why they're so different...

 

[jamin-b]

A couple on the M8:
N&C 13 B-day-61-2 by Ben Sandler, on Flickr

N&C 13 B-day-50 by Ben Sandler, on Flickr

 

[cz23]

 

[Yokosuka Mike]

Sony A7II, 50mm f2 ZM, Voigtlander adapter (both pictures shot at f8 ISO 100) Yama****a Park, Yokohama

 

[Doug]

Does anyone know why the design choices between the 50/1.4 (SLR) Planar and 50/2 (RF) Planar were so different? The 50/2 seems to have been designed with pure performance in mind, where as the 50/1.4 seems to be more about general aesthetic rendering. They're both beauties IMO, but I do wonder why they're so different...

I think it's because the SLR lens has to sit so far from the film plane... the optical arrangement has to be adjusted for this.

 

[Doug]

M9, ZM 50 Planar

 

[icebear]

The planar captures more than I realize at time of shooting ... in the left section of the large globe there is the Rockefeller Center building (entire height) and the "tiny" X-mas tree infront of it. I only saw this on my monitor at home.

 

[B.Toews]

M3, Zeiss 50/2 Planar, HP5


Untitled by Brendan | Toews, on Flickr