CONTAX CLUB Carl Zeiss 討論區

本人對CONTAX鏡十分喜好，但想用於5D及菲林EOS3上，請問轉接環多少錢？容易找到？另想找廣角鏡28MM以下，是否Distagon最好？請指点。曾聽過有D未必能用於EOS上，會撞鏡？！

Adapter for Contax / Yashica ( commonly called C/Y ) mount lens onto EF mount is common and you can find them at various camera specialty shop pricing between a couple hundred to 2K depending on version, Mfr, and models. To be fair, price reflect quality, the better one of course are dearer, but even the cheap ones usually turn out to be quite OK for lighter lens ( heavy lens might warp the weak alloy type adapter )

All Zeiss C/Y mount Wide angle 28mm and below are Distagon

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I think you can start with 28/2.8 which is cheap and very good in quality. Of course, if you want to the best of the best, you can try 21/2.8 for ultimate corner sharpness and near-APO correction.

Thanks FR and iamderek brothers. 21/2.8 is too far expensive to my budget. My top pick will be 28/2 but I afraid it is rather difficult to find a good condition one. The second choice will be 25/2.8 and 28/2.8.

28/2 is an excellent lens. I like it more than 25/2.8, 28/2.8 and also 35/1.4. But I heard that it may hit the mirror on 5D. Use it at your own risk.

Thanks iamderek info. If I had the chance to buy 28/2, I would buy a C/Y mount camera to use this lens. After all film is my major interest.

28唔夠wide, 25唔夠sharp!

Brother Wai, any suggestion? Please don't tell me the only choice is 21/2.8!

25 出的顏色層次靚，抵消番...

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鯨魚愛Zeiss

Based on my experiences with Zeiss Contax/Rollei 18/4, Rollei 25/2.8 and Contax 28/2.8, I am very happy with their performance. Stop down to f5.6 or f8 should be getting very good results.

Rollei HFT 18/4
http://www.fuwen.net/index.php?option=c ... &Itemid=86

Rollei HFT 25/2.8
http://www.fuwen.net/index.php?option=c ... &Itemid=87

For Contax somehow I decided to use 28/2.8 instead. To me I am very please with the performance of the 28/2.8. For 21 nowadays I use the ZM 21 Biogon.[/url]

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Carl Zeiss C/Y T* - QBM HFT - ZM T* - ZF T* - Batis T* - Otus T* - Loxia T*
Sony. Zeiss 16-35/4 T* G200600 GM100400 GM600
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Well, I had to pitch in and I think there is a point to be taken. While doing film, I am sure all the Distagons should do just fine, but for the 5D ... well , long ago I had already report that FF digital capture is really challenging the lens at their wide open. Always be prepared to stop down to 5.6 or beyond, otherwise its very liable to shown artifacts and so on the image.

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It is true except for D21. D21 was designed with digital in mind. Also I believe ZF25 & ZF35 are also digital-ready.

Sorry but I have a question. From what source do it justifies that D21 was designed 'with digital in mind'? Because this is a lens come in early 90's (thought it works quite well with nowadays FF dslr)...........

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If my bad memory serves me well, it is from an old Japanese magazine/book in which several photographers were discussing about the future of film and digital photography. I will try to find it out and hopefully it is still in my bookshelf.

BTW, I forgot to test out the difference in bokeh for VS70-210 in normal mode and macro mode during our last outing. Originally this was one of my objectives in that trip. Clifford or wah, have you tested it out already?

To my best of knowledge, none of the C/Y lens had ever claim to be designed for Digital in mind, in fact Kyocera/Contax come out to claim that being a need to foster the N series for a future proof approach for Contax , thus the N lens would all be designed with such.

Still, yes the D21 is a very good lens , in fact top graded, but it do not made it as always that good for digital, the same kind of restriction applied when shooting FF digital. In fact few realize that, the better resolving, better contrast and better sharpness a lens had , its even more so that the lens would suffer when used on digital ( FF or not ) as the contrast level & others combine to amplify the problem.

The best lens for shooting digital FF without much of edge performance issue had proven all not to be the sharpest but those that are either designed with flatfield and large image circle projection ( about all the Macro Lens ) or those that favor low contrast & tonality over sharpness and resolving power. Not to mention the lateral color abbr. problem

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