Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/07/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Interesting article linked to the new newsletter from Zeiss Lens News. A Californian fine art photographer writing on testing the Biogon 2/35 ZM. He is very enthusiadtic regarding his loan lens from Xeiss. This gentleman extols the superior bo-ke from the Zeiss product compared to the "competitor"' "The 35mm focal length lens that I have used in recent years has been considered state of the art for rangefinder lens design by the use of its aspheric lens element. It is well regarded, but many photographers have questioned the "bokeh" of the lens in having significant visible "jarring" fore and aft of the focal plane as a result of the exotic aspherical modelling". Also "The most obvious characteristic I saw in the negatives was decisively more resolution and micro-contrast over the competitor's lens. My assumption in photographing with the competitor's lens was that my images were bandwidth-limited by the film emulsion response. I was extremely surprised to see an obvious and substantial increase in performance with the same film emulsion when using the Biogon T* 2/35 ZM." Interesting. I note also for film SLR folks that their manual focus range now includes K mount as well as F and M42 Cheers Hoppy