This picture was taken with the Contax G, an autofocus-rangefinder camera, or you can say, an autofus version of the Leica M7. butI bought it because of the Carl Zeiss-lenses. (Contax was already a real rangefinder in the 30's and before WorldWarII more expensive and technically further than the Leica and also a German brand owned by Zeiss). But I used mainly for color-slides. I used and some still use it with only three lenses: 21mm, 35mm, 90mm (longer focal lengths are not usable at rangefinders).
My actual camera is the Sony A700 which I bought, again, because of the possibillity to use Carl Zeiss-lenses. At this moment I have only two lenses for it: Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonnar 16-80(=24-120mm) with normally great contrast and colours and the really great Zeiss Sonnar 1.8-135mm.
Thanks for your questions and comments.
Greetings from Holland!
Zeiss Sonar 1.8 sounds interesting for potraits & Fashion. Do u hv sample shots on this one? I'm beginning to use Hasssleblad occassionally . Zeiss manufacture truly great lenses!
I have not much photos on fashion andportraits, but on flickr i have concertphoto's taken with this lens and also landscape-photo's. See on flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/38984347@N05/3668928450/ and om my older flickr-site under the name "hjhoeber" (My newer is called "hjhoeber2")
Zeiss lenses are famoud for their contrast and great colour rendition and a feeling of depth or three-dimensional effects. And sharpness is also great. But in its class of 135mm-lenses the Zeiss Sonnar reaches already great contrast and sharpness on 1.8!
On a level that other 135mm-lenses reach at 4.0 or 5,6 (when I may believe many tests I read on this lens)
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