Irakly Shanidze Posted January 28, 2015 Share #1 Â Posted January 28, 2015 Advertisement (gone after registration) Dear Leica friends! Even though not a Leica lens, it might be of interest to you... Zeiss courteously sent me their new 35mm f/1.4 ZM lens, which I have been shooting for the past two and a half months. I wrote a review, which I tried my best to keep impartial. It wasn't easy, I have to admit... http://blog.shanidze.com/-blog.html Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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james.liam Posted January 28, 2015 Share #2  Posted January 28, 2015 http://blog.shanidze.com/-blog.html  dead link. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
james.liam Posted January 28, 2015 Share #3 Â Posted January 28, 2015 Live now, 11:13 GMT. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chito Posted January 30, 2015 Share #4 Â Posted January 30, 2015 Dammit, I've been trying to resist the temptation of buying this lens. Your review was excellent, maybe the best yet. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wattsy Posted January 30, 2015 Share #5  Posted January 30, 2015 I wrote a review, which I tried my best to keep impartial. It wasn't easy, I have to admit...IRAKLY SHANIDZE PHOTOGRAPHY BLOG - IRAKLY SHANIDZE • BLOG  Interesting, thanks. Have you tried the lens on a film camera? As much as I pretend to be disinterested in this lens, I have, over the years, obsessively bought many different 35mm lenses for my Leicas and I think I'm going to have to at least try this one out at some point when it becomes widely available. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmradman Posted January 30, 2015 Share #6 Â Posted January 30, 2015 Interesting, thanks. Have you tried the lens on a film camera?As much as I pretend to be disinterested in this lens, I have, over the years, obsessively bought many different 35mm lenses for my Leicas and I think I'm going to have to at least try this one out at some point when it becomes widely available. Â Best in class even when twice the size over the FLE but half the price is difficult to ignore. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrp Posted February 1, 2015 Share #7  Posted February 1, 2015 Advertisement (gone after registration) #317. Zeiss Distagon T* 1.4/35 ZM: The Full Review | DearSusan  Another positive review (on an a7r). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wattsy Posted February 2, 2015 Share #8 Â Posted February 2, 2015 Another positive review (on an a7r). Â Yes, does look like a winner but I do wish there were one or two 'reviewers' testing these new lenses on a film body rather than the very predictable M240 and Sony bodies. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted February 2, 2015 Share #9 Â Posted February 2, 2015 You cannot expect much different on a film body. If anything, film is more forgiving. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
horosu Posted February 2, 2015 Share #10 Â Posted February 2, 2015 Yes, does look like a winner but I do wish there were one or two 'reviewers' testing these new lenses on a film body rather than the very predictable M240 and Sony bodies. Â Â I don't know if you saw Ray Larose's report. It's on film. Â http://www.raylarose.com/2015/01/review-of-the-carl-zeiss-distagon-t-1-435-zm/ Â Cheers, Horea Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wattsy Posted February 2, 2015 Share #11  Posted February 2, 2015 You cannot expect much different on a film body. If anything, film is more forgiving.  Yes, to an extent – a case in point is how much more satisfying my 28 Summicron is with film than with a digital sensor (where it vignettes noticeably and has more "smeary" corners on the latter) – but I don't find that I learn much about the general "look" from these reviews on a Sony A7, etc. Most of these reviews are obsessed by sharpness and bokeh. I am less interested in the former (most modern lenses are plenty sharp enough for me to obtain a nice 12" x 8" Tri-X or Portra print) and I find the bokeh (which is interesting up to a point) is different when a given lens is used with film. I am also increasingly irritated that these bloggers and reviewers simply assume that the only relevant result from a lens is what a 100% crop from an M240 or A7s looks like. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
microview Posted February 2, 2015 Share #12  Posted February 2, 2015 #317. Zeiss Distagon T* 1.4/35 ZM: The Full Review | DearSusan Another positive review (on an a7r).  But could you draw any real conclusions from the photos included there? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irakly Shanidze Posted February 13, 2015 Author Share #13 Â Posted February 13, 2015 But could you draw any real conclusions from the photos included there? Â Yes I could. These pictures show several important, if not crucial characteristics of the lens performance at wide apertures: dynamic range, sharpness, contrast, light falloff and OOF rendering. I'd rather prefer seeing real life examples to pictures of resolution charts. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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