Buying lenses long distance

[Jorge Díaz-Amador]

Then what the expert's advice? (Apart from suicide?)

Andrea

Andrea,

Mio Dio!

It's not that bad. With patience you can get a set of older primes that are still quite good. The small bodied Zeiss Standard Primes with the T* coating are just as good optically as the T2.1's and much less costly. And the non T* versions are not so bad either. On a contrasty sharp camera like the RED ONE they would probably be quite acceptable.

Hell, I've got a really nice set of Super Speed T1.4's, full overhauled, here waiting for a reasonable offer. I will present all offers to the lens' owner unless it's an unreasonable offer.

Indecision only delays the inevitable.

 

[Andrea Scaglione]

Jorge vamos!

Todavia publicitad!?

Ok I'm joking (a little bit). Thank for the precious advice. Anyway I'm a strange guy: I prefer (on RED ONE) the T 2.1 to the superspeed and (terrible to listen) the Ultra Primes to the Master Primes too sharp to my taste.

If you got some (older then you:clown2: ) T 2.1 (at a reasonable price) let me know.


Andrea

 

[Jorge Díaz-Amador]

Jorge vamos!

Todavia publicitad!?

Ok I'm joking (a little bit). Thank for the precious advice. Anyway I'm a strange guy: I prefer (on RED ONE) the T 2.1 to the superspeed and (terrible to listen) the Ultra Primes to the Master Primes too sharp to my taste.

If you got some (older then you:clown2: ) T 2.1 (at a seasonable price) let me know.


Andrea

I *might* have some of the older small bodied Zeiss Standard Primes T*. I will have to talk the owner into selling though...

I too like the way the T2.1's look on the RED ONE. The are less highly corrected and have a softer bokeh.

 

[Andrea Scaglione]

I *might* have some of the older small bodied Zeiss Standard Primes T*. I will have to talk the owner into selling though...

I too like the way the T2.1's look on the RED ONE. The are less highly corrected and have a softer bokeh.

1st where write "seasonable price" you have to read "reasonble price" oster_oops:
2nd sorry but I don't know the meaning of the word "bokeh".
3th talkin' about that old Zeiss


Andrea

 

[Jorge Díaz-Amador]

2nd sorry but I don't know the meaning of the word "bokeh".

Andrea

Bokeh is a Japanese word. It is the term in photography for the out-of-focus blur in the background. Highly corrected lenses have harsh bokeh. Some video and cheap still camera zoom lenses produce harsh edged "donuts" instead of soft edged disks.

Take a look at any photo taken with a mirror telephoto lens to see what really harsh Bokeh looks like. The most pleasant bokeh would be from older lenses like the Bausch & Lomb Super Baltar, Cooke Speed Panchos, and Zeiss Standards (as well as the Leica M stills lenses).

The lens I own with the absolute best bokeh I have seen is the Carl Zeiss Sonnar-G T* 2.8/90mm for the Contax G rangefinder camera. Portiats with that lens turn out beautiful. The backgrounds turn into dreamy soft blurs, yet the subject is in sharp, but not harsh, focus.