Playing around with a new lens

[thereyougo!2]

I always keep an eye on the second hand market and many of my lenses are second hand. Some of my best lenses have come from Ffordes in Beauly, Scotland, who tend to be pricey but the condition tends to be superb.


I bought a Mint- Carl Zeiss 35mm f/2 ZE Distagon T* which is a manual focus lens, and still playing with it so these aren't exactly expert shots especially as handheld at relatively slow shutter speeds. The lens is a nice weight and the focussing wheel has great feedback. in short, its a fantastic lens, and manually focussing can only be good for my technique.


new-toy by singingsnapper, on Flickr


This was lunch I made for my wife and I - Chargrilled Salmon with Kingprawns, scallops mussels on a bed of salad leaves with a dill dressing:


Canon 5D mk III Carl Zeiss ZE 35mm f/2 distagon at f/10 and 1/20 ISO 1600



salmon-with-salad by singingsnapper, on Flickr




The rain finally stopped and grabbed this shot of the front of our car:


Canon 5D mk III Carl Zeiss ZE 35mm f/2 Distagon T* at f/16 and 1/25 ISO 250 converted in Silver efex pro 2



wet-car by singingsnapper, on Flickr

 

[iPhoto17]

very nice shots, the bmw is my favorite one

 

[thereyougo!2]

The sun is out for a change and so had a play around outside in the back garden while our dog Caesar had a run around (the bonus being that once he'd tired himself a bit I could get him to sit still for a second to use the manual focus on him!


A few daisies still about:


Canon 5D mk III Carl Zeiss 35mm f/2 at f/4 1/640 ISO 100



Daisies-with-Zeiss by singingsnapper, on Flickr


The gale force winds have played havock with our rose bushes here's one of our surviving roses


f/5.6 1/400 ISO 400 (wind still blowing!)



windswept-roses by singingsnapper, on Flickr


Our Palm trees are still standing though:


f/8 1/100 ISO 100



palm-tree-in-wales- by singingsnapper, on Flickr


Caesar taken wide open:


f/2 1/8000 ISO 100



Caesar-at-2 by singingsnapper, on Flickr


and again slightly less wide open


f/2.8 1/6000 ISO 100



Caesar-at-2.8 by singingsnapper, on Flickr

 

[thereyougo!2]

Weather turned out much better today so went for a stroll up Mynydd Ddinas, the mountain behind where we live and grabbed a few landscapes with the Zeiss glass:


Looking over the Cwmafan Valley:


canon 5D mk III Carl Zeiss ZE 35mm f/2 at f/8 1/160 ISO 100



The-Cwmafan-Valley by singingsnapper, on Flickr


Looking back towards where I had come from, I liked the line of the path and the two trees:


f/8 1/200 ISO 100



path-above-afan-valley by singingsnapper, on Flickr