Nikon lens question
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I once had a Contax RTS and a Zeiss 50 1.4 and a Zeiss 28 2.8
They both had amazingly smooth focussing rings, like old AI nikkors, but I think their focussing rings turned opposite direction from the nikon lenses, which drove me crazy... I was used to intuitive follow focus... it's an ooooold manual focus lens trick....
The 28/2.8 zeiss distagon was otherworldly sharp and contrasty, well, actually more contrasty than any other lens I had, edge contrast jumped off the page, but a closeup of a person did highlight zits and wrinkles too.... sometimes images looked a bit etched.... at F5.6 images looked like they were sharpenend in photoshop if taken in bright late afternoon light....
The zeiss 50 was a bit dreamy sometimes, but if there was an out of focus hard line in the distant background, the bokeh was oddly jarring, but round things in the background were nice...
I've heard the new zeiss lenses use similar, but slightly updated optical designs...
Even more off-topic, but I've heard cinematographers like these zeiss lenses for 5D mark II use, partly because the manual focussing is so smooth and the lenses turn so far from infinity to close focus that they can tape mark the beginning and end of a focus pull much more easily than most other lenses.... I think there's a Contax to EOS adapter out there so you don't have to get the very pricey new ones... wow did I go OT.....
- I have an older Zeiss Contax but there are no adapter rings for my D200. LOVE Zeiss!ItTango