raid
Dad Photographer
Here are some photos taken with a Bessa T and a Zeiss Sonnar 5cm/2 in LTM. DAG recently added some shimming to the lens mount to make the focusing precise and accurate. Here is a link to some photos. I hope it is OK to have such postings on two websites. I am impressed by how good the old Sonnar is.
http://www.photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=550788
http://www.photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=550788
Very nice photo's. How did it do wide-open and close-up? That is where the J-3's give me fits.
I have the urge to do some lens mount changing. I'm overcome with the desire to put a Leitz lens on a Nikon RF camera. Swap the Collapsible Zeiss 5cm F2 with a Leica lens module. Think I'll start with a Summar... and a cheap one.
I have the urge to do some lens mount changing. I'm overcome with the desire to put a Leitz lens on a Nikon RF camera. Swap the Collapsible Zeiss 5cm F2 with a Leica lens module. Think I'll start with a Summar... and a cheap one.
Gabriel M.A.
My Red Dot Glows For You
Not too shabby at all. Amazing how good it is indeed, also considering it's not coated and how it handled these high-key scenes.
taffer
void
Yep, I know it's hard to judge from web images but looks crisp to me and as Gabriel said, the color rendition is surprising for a lens that old.
raid
Dad Photographer
Brian Sweeney said:
Brian: That's a good one. I got back four rolls of scanned film, and I compared the photos over and over to figure out which camera and lens combination was used for which roll. I was undecided between a Canon 80-200/4L and Canon 5cm/2 Sonnar. I am still undecided which lens was used, but there is also the possibility that I switched lenses and the 50mm shots are taken by the Sonnar. Oh well. Next time, I will write down which lenses were used. This, however, takes away the fun of just walking around and taking photos as they come.
raid
Dad Photographer
Looking again at the photos, I am now more confident that I did use the 5cm Sonnar lens. DAG told me from the start that optically the lens was very clean, but it needed some shimming. I used a lens hood with all photos.
I tested SIX adjusted J-3's with two cameras on three rolls of film. Many notes with serial numbers were taken. And in the end I had to make some very fine adjustments on my Canon 7 RF used to adjust the lenses.
raid
Dad Photographer
Brian: I would also take notes if I had a sensitive task like yours, where you add specific shimmings to a specific lens based on its shortcomings. I may next time take along only one lens and take a whole roll of film at various lens settings (wide open, close up, ...).