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    Zeiss lenses

    in Casual Photo Conversations

    Posted

    Jamie,

     

    The new Zeiss lenses series will work on Nikon D200 and +. Metering will work too.

    If you really interested in Landscape photography, you should seriously consider a

    second-hand medium format or even a 4x5 inch field camera. You will take fewer but

    more well-thought photos. After scanning, you can go back to the digital workflow.

    I have the 3 formats, and I barely use the digital anymore (including the Distagon..).

    Ebay, keh.com and middlewest can provide good outfit for landscape.

    Enjoy.

    Zeiss Distagon ZF T* 35mm f/2

    in Nikon

    Posted

    David, if you wish to have a closer look, I could send one pic (D200, Zeiss 2.8/25) in its original state to your email, just ask!

    Another review was in the B&W magazine of April or May, they love the new ZF series.

    Ciao, Serge

    Getting into it

    in Large Format

    Posted

    Hi Ross,

     

    Your girlfriend has very good taste, and she wants to lock you for hours behind the ground glass....where she can find you easily!

     

    Let's say that you do not have to take hundred pictures to have one acceptable. You take your time to compose, measure, focus, and ...back from start again. But after few months of trial and error, you will have the perfect pictures. From then, things should go faster, but LF is first a philosophy (somebody said Zen above) and technique follows.

     

    Enjoy doing LF with your gf at your side, she can carry something too..

     

    I am currently working in Mongolia, developing strategy to bring my LF here next time. It is the perfect place for LF, dark blue skies, white clouds, and to focus to infinite means really something.

     

    Best regards, Serge

     

    NB: reading some good LF books in parallel will not hurt: Simpson, Adams

    Zeiss Distagon ZF T* 35mm f/2

    in Nikon

    Posted

    I confirm what Marek just said, it is an outstanding performer, maybe not the sharpest in the world, but probably the one that render the color the best. I have been using it for several months, and it is the lens I most use. Better Photography with the Zeiss and crop it later than to change focale. Barely need any sharpening.. DOF start 6 cm from the lens, almost a macro lens.

     

    Just go for it.

     

    Serge

    Schneider Angulon 90mm f6.8 Lens

    in Large Format

    Posted

    I recently replaced my Angulon with a Nikkor 90. Angulon is quite old and has been superseded with the Super-Angulon series, which is multi-coated. "You can experiment with only one half of

    the Angulon since it is a so-called Satz-lens.

    You can unscrew the rear or the front part of it.

    It might be interesting for experimental use to find out

    the "ancient look" of such images." (suggested by my supplier)

    But for few more bucks, go for a second-hand Nikkor on e-bay or keh.com.

    The Agulon covers 4x5 from f22 up, as far as I could see. I you are interested to know the age or yours, you can find information on largeformatphotography.info

    Serge

    Large Format Camera Comparisons

    in Large Format

    Posted

    I have a Tachihara for some months, and yes it is a nice camera for little money. The downs are that the movements are not very accurate, and that it is a base-tilt and not an axis-tilt, and this necessites a re-focus after tilting. Although it is possible to move it out of the slider first. For moving up and down the mountains, it is a perfect outfit. It may not be so convenient for studio works. As it was said in several forum, "its color attracts the crowd". As first purchase, I will go again for the Tachihara.

    Zeiss Lenses for Manual Focus Nikons

    in Nikon

    Posted

    I am myself addicted to Zeiss lenses, since my old days with Contax. 2 months ago I bought a Zeiss 2.8/25 ZF, and it is the one I prefer using, because of its long dof and the possibility offered to focus from 17 cm, so I am using it for macro, such as flowers. I bought it initially for landscape.

    I like manual focus, but due to my weakening sight, I ordered the focussing screen Katz Eye, which seems to be a compulsory item for the manual focus lovers....at least after 49!

    I love the quality of the lens, heavy and built like a german car, with the perfect "click" of the aperture ring. Extremely sharp at all apertures at the center, and an even sharpness between center and border at f11.

    I would not give away my Zeiss against 2 Nikons ;). Warning: works best (and maybe only) with D200 and the new Fuji S5. Works probably with a lot of manual focus bodies.

    I have another pretty manual lens, a Voigtlander macro 125.

    Salut, Serge

    What is up with this CV 40mm f2 lens?

    in Nikon

    Posted

    Hi John,

     

    I have myself a Voigt SL and I doubt that it could cause any problem, it is so well built. I think like you that it is a problem with the curtain, and you should try with a lens that open at f2. If your look at the blades, as I have just done, you will notice that there is a sensible difference between 2 and 2.8. A problem with the blades would blacken a whole circle. Please keep us posted!

    is large format a solution to this problem?

    in Large Format

    Posted

    Hi, first make sure you can buy the right film for LF. In China and Singapore they are selling sinar and alpa, it is likely you can, but in Vietnam and Thailand, and of course Cambodia, Lao, Mongolia and Myanmar, you may not find the LF sheets and the laboratories to process them.

    Accessories are difficult to find and equipment is much more expensive than Europe ou US. Japan may be a good place to go shopping LF. You may find a saler through a website and pay by bank transfer, hence no need for a credit card.

     

    Good luck

    Awkward combination of 17-55mm and D50

    in Nikon

    Posted

    Hello Frank,

     

    Since 2005, I took the same long and tortuous path, from D50 to D80 to D200. D200 is a marvel, although rather heavy. I upgraded to D200 because it offers the possibility of using manual focus lenses, such as Voigtlander and Zeiss, and of course, old Nikkors.

    Each upgrade cost me a loss on my previous body. I would recommend you avoid this losses and buy directly the D200, indeed the best buy.

     

    You should keep your D50 as a second body or exchange your SF card against CF, what I did.

     

    Cheers, Serge

    18-200 VR Please Help!

    in Nikon

    Posted

    Hi!

    I have a 18-200 for 6 months or so, and I was disappointed until I remove the UV filter (bought in Singapore, fake one!). Even after, I am mediumly excited by this lens, and I am going to dump it, and order prime lenses. Not very sharp. It appears, reading the forum, that they are very different qualities for the same lens: different manufactures of quality control issue?

    Aperture ring has to be locked??

    in Nikon

    Posted

    I have a D80 and I confirm that we cannot use the aperture ring located on the lens. It may be a problem with some lens which aperture is controlled only by the aperture ring, like older lens. But the lock located at the side of the camera lens hole, which transmit the aperture lock to the camera can be manually blocked (with a small piece of paper or stainless steel) and the ring can then be used.
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