nhodgkinson
TPF Noob!
I’ve been building a set of Zeiss Contax for filming. I’ve a 21mm 2,8 28mm 2,8 35-70mm and the 80-200mm. they all perform very well but collecting old lenses of E-bay is hit and miss and these are not necessarily the first copy’s I’ve been through. I’ve sent them back with fungus a few times and odd mists but I just received a 85mm 1.4. This lens is in absolute mint condition with all the original packaging, even the packaging is in mint condition. The focus and aperture are super smooth, I thought my other lenses were smooth until I got this one and the glass is without a single detectable blemish. It’s a reasonably late model, serial no 7156019, an MM but made in West Germany, no ninjas.
I do a test shoot for all the new lenses and with this one I was a little surprised. It’s soft WO but that’s to be expected at 1.4 I guess, I’ve never had a lens faster than 2.8 before, but it shows horrible CA all the way up to f2.8 not clearing up till 5.6.
Here is the 21mm at 2.8
And here is the 28mm at 2.8
I'm a little shocked, does anyone know if this is a bad copy? Or am I just missing something? Is it something to do with how I took the pictures? They are all 100% crops from Jpegs. The Jpeg’s are taken from raw files with nothing altered apart from slight exposure adjustments.
I do a test shoot for all the new lenses and with this one I was a little surprised. It’s soft WO but that’s to be expected at 1.4 I guess, I’ve never had a lens faster than 2.8 before, but it shows horrible CA all the way up to f2.8 not clearing up till 5.6.
Here is the 21mm at 2.8
And here is the 28mm at 2.8
I'm a little shocked, does anyone know if this is a bad copy? Or am I just missing something? Is it something to do with how I took the pictures? They are all 100% crops from Jpegs. The Jpeg’s are taken from raw files with nothing altered apart from slight exposure adjustments.