The beauty of Sonnar lenses - Post your pictures.

C Sonnar 50/1.5 on my M 262

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dourbalistar said:
Lovely photos with the Zeiss Jena Sonnar, the last few arboreal posts are wonderful, Steve!

Dare I say... tree-mendous? ;)
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Thanks!! Both Zeiss Sonnars (the Jena from 1943 and the Opton from the 1950s) have been wonderful surprises, especially in black and white with the Jena and in color with the Opton.
 
thank you Erik and for your great photos, very much recognizable as one of the genres that you are excelling in

I have used my Sonnar Takumar, supposedly the only "normal" lens with Sonnar scheme ever made for the 35mm medium, much too little.
The Takumar f2/58mm's characteristics I find very attractive, another pic of cosmos flowers


Untitled by andreas, on Flickr, Takumar f2/58mm, Pentax K-x, Japan 2010
 
Very nice flower shot!

You mean for the 35mm reflex cameras, for the rangefinders there are more, such as Jupiters, Nikkors, Serenars and Voigtländers.

Main problem seems to be the focus shift. Nippon Kogaku made twelve optically different Sonnar versions before they finally went for the Gauss type.

Nikon made an f/1.4 version and an f/2 version. The f/1.4 version suffers from weak corners and the f/2 from distortion (my experience). I prefer weak corners over distortion.

Erik.
 
Erik van Straten said:
Very nice flower shot!

You mean for the 35mm reflex cameras, for the rangefinders there are more, such as Jupiters, Nikkors, Serenars and Voigtländers.

Main problem seems to be the focus shift. Nippon Kogaku made twelve optically different Sonnar versions before they finally went for the Gauss type.

Nikon made an f/1.4 version and an f/2 version. The f/1.4 version suffers from weak corners and the f/2 from distortion (my experience). I prefer weak corners over distortion.

Erik.
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yes, of course , exactly Erik, I forgot to add the "SLR" or "reflex cameras"!!!
Of rangefinder Sonar normal lenses I own a Nikkor-S.C f1.4 5cm ( Sonnar too, right? ) CZJ Sonnar f1.5/50, Canon LTM f1.5/50mm and a Jupiter 8. The Nikkor renders much to my lking but it's mount, or rather my self made adapter to focus make it's use a bit cumbersome, the f1.5 lenses may have some coating damage or do they really loose contrast "that" easily? The Takumar may be my favorite but for any more serious opinion first I have to shoot and get to know them more, all of them!

taken at: https://www.discoverkyoto.com/places-go/heian-jingu/


Untitled by andreas, on Flickr, Takumar f2/58mm, Pentax K-x, Japan 2010
 
kuuan said:
the f1.5 lenses may have some coating damage or do they really loose contrast "that" easily?
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Personally I have no experience with the Serenars, but what I know is that Canon used some chemical ingredient in the glass that causes haze.

The 50mm f/1.2 suffers from this too, unfortunately, because if not it would be a beautiful lens. It is not a Sonnar, however.

Erik.
 
Erik van Straten said:
Personally I have no experience with the Serenars, but what I know is that Canon used some chemical ingredient in the glass that causes haze.

The 50mm f/1.2 suffers from this too, unfortunately, because if not it would be a beautiful lens. It is not a Sonnar, however.

Erik.
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You are very much right again Erik! I don't remember for sure if mine had a haze which, surprisingly, I was able to get rid of mostly?
because the lens looked quite clean when I took it's photo:


Canon LTM f1.5/50mm by andreas, on Flickr

but right now, I just checked it, it has a rather strong haze across the full diameter of an inner element!
Makes me think that it may have had the same haze all along and that I took that photo of the lens in a way so that it does not show much of it.
Not cleanable alright, nevertheless I may open it one of these days to see if I can get rid just a bit of the haze.
a sample:


Untitled by andreas, on Flickr, Canon Serenar f1.5/50mm, Sony NEX5n, Vietnam 2015

there is an earlier sample I had posted in this thread, post 39 on page 1, again against light:
https://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showpost.php?p=2764235&postcount=39
 
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