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11/26/2011
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$1,283.00
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telecommuter
Registered: June 2008
Posts: 8
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Carl Zeiss 50mm f/2 Makro-Planar T* 2/50 review by telecommuter
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Review Date: 11/26/2011
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Total Spent: None indicated| Rating: 10
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Pros:
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Build quality, the way it feels, the details it can render
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Cons:
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pathetic lens cap - insanely poor design
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This is another of the utterly splendid Zeiss lenses designed to mount onto the Canon bodies without any adapters. What a piece of photographic gear, it is just so properly manufactured.
Image rendering is superb. It is one of the two or three lenses (all Zeiss) which out-resolve my 21mp body. This has the desirable effect or eliminating any manner of dithering or guessing by the camera body - what you see is what you capture.
I prefer this focal length for portraits but am becoming adept at using it for pretty much anything. Highly recommended for the degree of detail and color rendering. Stop it down to f/4 and it is insanely sharp edge to edge.
A slowly growing library of sample shots can be found here...
http://www.idyll.com/z50
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ioiooi
Registered: January 2010
Posts: 2
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Carl Zeiss 50mm f/2 Makro-Planar T* 2/50 review by ioiooi
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Review Date: 1/28/2010
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Total Spent: $1,283.00| Rating: 9
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Pros:
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Very Sharp, Build Quality, Precision Instrument
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Cheap Lens Cap
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I've recently reverted back to using DSLRs after using Rangefinders; specifically Leica M8.2 and M9. I'm currently using a Nikon D3s Body which has amazing IQ + high ISO performance (something that the Leica's lack).
The Zeiss Makro-Planar T*2/50 brings very similar image quality akin to the M-System Lens to DSLRs. This lens is very versatile; I use it extensively to make panoramas, take portraits and macro work.
What I don't understand is why it came with such a crappy lens cap. For some reason its very hard to put back on and I'm paranoid of it falling off.
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