david_choy58 Posted April 19, 2007 Share #1 Posted April 19, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) I am a M8 user and have Leica, Zeiss and CV glass for the system already. I like the ZM25mm a lot as it produces sharp image corner to corner and the color from it for landscape is great. Hence, I've been thinking to get the ZM15mm. I have the CV15mm already but would appreciate if anyone who has both lenses share their experience / any samples on this. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted April 19, 2007 Posted April 19, 2007 Hi david_choy58, Take a look here CV15mm vs ZM15mm. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
gwelland Posted April 19, 2007 Share #2 Posted April 19, 2007 Take a wander over to the Luminous Landscape web site and you'll find some pretty good feedback on the two lenses. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
david_choy58 Posted April 19, 2007 Author Share #3 Posted April 19, 2007 Yeah thanks, have took a look there already. But am wondering any has any comparison. ZM15mm is supposed to be more saturated + contrast than CV15mm. Corner performance is also better? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
egibaud Posted April 19, 2007 Share #4 Posted April 19, 2007 Price tend to forgive many things when comparing. After reading about both lens, and considering this lens would be a "use sometimes only" I prefered the CV15. If you feel you are going to use the lens a lot, read the site mentioned in the above and other thread in this forum and consider the Zeiss if image quality is prime for you. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
carstenw Posted April 19, 2007 Share #5 Posted April 19, 2007 Actually, with the CV15, if I stop down a little to f/6.8, it is really sharp. I would not pay 10x as much to have a lens 5x the size and weight with an extra stop and a half. What bothers me without end too in the Zeiss lens is that it isn't rangefinder coupled. At that price, and especially with the f/2.8, that I find hard to stomach. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
david_choy58 Posted April 19, 2007 Author Share #6 Posted April 19, 2007 I agree with you. Paying $3,500 for the lens and it's still not rangfinder coupled. But having said that, as we have all used the CV15mm...it's quite easy to use as the DOF is so large. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pelikan1931 Posted April 19, 2007 Share #7 Posted April 19, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) Do you need or like to shoot in low light? if yes, you need a fast lens, and f2.8 is just the min. requirement. As to rangefinder coupling, you don't need it, unless you use the 15mm to shoot macro. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pelikan1931 Posted April 19, 2007 Share #8 Posted April 19, 2007 sometimes, you need all the light you can get. (unless and until you get a Canon sensor instead of the Kodak one) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pelikan1931 Posted April 19, 2007 Share #9 Posted April 19, 2007 the CV15 will not cut any ice here. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pelikan1931 Posted April 19, 2007 Share #10 Posted April 19, 2007 the last one... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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david_choy58 Posted April 19, 2007 Author Share #12 Posted April 19, 2007 Thx for the posts. What ISO did you use? They were all taken with ZM 15mm? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pelikan1931 Posted April 19, 2007 Share #13 Posted April 19, 2007 all shot with zeiss 15. i used fuji xtra 400 (iso 400), without center filter, the cv 12 would not be of much use unless in broad day light. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lars_bergquist Posted April 19, 2007 Share #14 Posted April 19, 2007 all shot with zeiss 15. i used fuji xtra 400 (iso 400), without center filter, the cv 12 would not be of much use unless in broad day light. More to the point, were they all done with the lens wide open? The old man from the Age of the Standard Lens Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lars_bergquist Posted April 19, 2007 Share #15 Posted April 19, 2007 You can always find, or dream up, something that'd be better than ... just about everything. The question is, is it practical? Is it economically defensible? And, are you willing to lug the damn thing around? Back trouble is the nearly universal occupational disease of professional photographers. To my mind, the CV 15 is excellent value for money, and the most sensible choice for 99.9% of all of us. You may of course be that .01%. The old man frm the Age of the Standard Lens Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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