giordano Posted January 21, 2009 Share #21 Â Posted January 21, 2009 Advertisement (gone after registration) Zeiss seem to be widening their range of "ZE" manual focus lenses in Canon mount. These couple properly to the aperture and metering controls. No 35mm yet but surely just a matter of time. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted January 21, 2009 Posted January 21, 2009 Hi giordano, Take a look here 35mm Summicron R on Canon 5d mark II. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
thrice Posted January 21, 2009 Share #22 Â Posted January 21, 2009 I used the 35mm Summicron-R on my 5D and now on my 5D-II with no real difficulty. The corners don't sharpen up until about f/8, but I mainly shoot at either f/2, f/5.6 or f/8. Â With f/2 it's portraits or shots with selective focus so I'm focusing and shooting wide open so no biggie. Â With f/5.6 it's usually street with minimal available light set to hyperfocal (or a useful range) and I don't have to focus. f/8 is the same deal for landscape or architecture but in these cases there's plenty of time to focus. Â Beware of adapters when using the 35 cron, I found that in order to get landscapes in focus to infinity even at smaller apertures I need to focus AT infinity instead of hyperfocal as the adapters aren't thin enough... odd as my other lenses have infinity bang on, others observed similar phenomena with certain adapters. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
faffo99 Posted February 1, 2009 Author Share #23 Â Posted February 1, 2009 ok i'm almost convinced , i'm taking Haoda adapter and Haoda 5D-B horizontal split image focusing screen... Â hope this will help right? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ammitsboel Posted February 1, 2009 Share #24 Â Posted February 1, 2009 How does these photos look(5D + Leica lens)? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lct Posted February 2, 2009 Share #25 Â Posted February 2, 2009 How does these photos look(5D + Leica lens)? Like Kodacolor sort of. Here with an old Elmarit 28 at f/2.8 w/o vignetting compensation. Â Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jot Posted February 2, 2009 Share #26 Â Posted February 2, 2009 Hi Faffo, whoever told you the Canon 35f2 was no good was wrong. Its a good lens but it isn't a great lens. It'll be fine on a 5D - I know because I've had one. The 35 Sum or Elm however are great lenses. It seems to me you're getting a little confused because this thread is going on & on! (And here I am adding to it!). Use the lens like you would your 'M' for this kind of work. (reportage, I think it was?) ie: maximise the depth of field available with this focal length and don't keep changing the focus and lose a shot. With the camera set on Aperture priority (Av) and the lens set to f4, say, you'll get everything from 3M to infinity in focus. Of course you can fine tune your min & max distances according to where you're working and maybe even 'open up' a bit. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
faffo99 Posted February 2, 2009 Author Share #27 Â Posted February 2, 2009 Advertisement (gone after registration) yes Jot i'll do so... i understood that summicron is better for me who am used to work on hyper-focal on leica m i'm also used to leica depth of field scale.... i realized i that in film i only focus when i have time to... just like i'm going to do with summicron on 5d2... i'm a bit afrai for the split screen i ordered ...they say it messes up the exposure...hope it doesn't Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick De Marco Posted February 15, 2009 Share #28 Â Posted February 15, 2009 I have the 35 f1.4L, and think it is one of Canon's best lenses. I also have the 35 Cron and am beginning to prefer it on the 5DII Â I am just back from a photographic trip to Myanmar. I took the 35L (which I thought would be the main lens I would use, in part because it would be easier to focus quickly), and a few manual lenses. I ended up using the Oly 50mm f1.8 far more because I preferred the look of the photo, especially when wide open, and the camera feels so much less obtrusive with a smaller lens. Â For accurate focussing I often use the live view feature (with magnification). It takes a while getting used to, but I soon found I could use a manual lens relatively quickly with accurate results. Its not as first as having an AF lens, but the focussing can be more accurate and the extra second or two it might take using a manual lens usually means more thought than pointing and shooting. Â I love the impressions made by the 35 cron, and again its smaller than the 35L, so having got used to working quickly and accurately with manual lenses I think the 35 cron may replace the 35L for travel etc. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sean_reid Posted February 15, 2009 Share #29 Â Posted February 15, 2009 I have the 35 f1.4L, and think it is one of Canon's best lenses. I also have the 35 Cron and am beginning to prefer it on the 5DIIÂ I am just back from a photographic trip to Myanmar. I took the 35L (which I thought would be the main lens I would use, in part because it would be easier to focus quickly), and a few manual lenses. I ended up using the Oly 50mm f1.8 far more because I preferred the look of the photo, especially when wide open, and the camera feels so much less obtrusive with a smaller lens. Â For accurate focussing I often use the live view feature (with magnification). It takes a while getting used to, but I soon found I could use a manual lens relatively quickly with accurate results. Its not as first as having an AF lens, but the focussing can be more accurate and the extra second or two it might take using a manual lens usually means more thought than pointing and shooting. Â I love the impressions made by the 35 cron, and again its smaller than the 35L, so having got used to working quickly and accurately with manual lenses I think the 35 cron may replace the 35L for travel etc. Â Â I'd also strongly recommend the Canon 35/1.4 L which is an excellent lens. Yes, it's large and heavy but it really works well and draws beautifully. It's one of my favorite Canon lenses along with the exceptional 50/1.2 L. Â The Canon 35/2.0, on FF, shows high res. on center but also a lot of field curvature so the outer zones are soft until it is stopped down. You could try it to see what you think. Â I've owned two copies and both of them failed (one during an important shoot) because they were so lightly built. The size and weight is exactly why I tried two of them but I wouldn't buy another copy. I still have the second copy (repaired by Canon) but do not use it. Â Cheers, Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sean_reid Posted February 15, 2009 Share #30  Posted February 15, 2009 thank you all for replies... but i'm still not convinced.. i think i'll have to try... i'll do it with a simple manual canon lens...and see how it works... can anyone explain me why the screen gets dark while in mechanical film cameras with no DOF preview switch doesn't? thanks  There's no auto aperture stop down because there's no mechanical or electronic coupling in the lens. Lenses that are used on their own system cameras remain wide open until the camera tells them to stop down just before exposure. The R lens is just physically mounted on the Canon, there's no mechanical or electronic communication happening between them.  Someone else mentioned the Zeiss 35/2.0. I'm in the process of reviewing the ZF version on the Canon (simply to look at the optical results) and it will certainly be worth considering the ZE version when that is released.  Cheers,  Sean Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
faffo99 Posted February 16, 2009 Author Share #31  Posted February 16, 2009 ...and it will certainly be worth considering the ZE version when that is released. Sean  well even if they do it, the 35/2 is 97mm long! i could blind someone!!  Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
magd0328 Posted February 16, 2009 Share #32 Â Posted February 16, 2009 Haha, yes, you have to be careful with that one. Quite how they made a 35mm f2 lens so long is anyone's guess. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
faffo99 Posted February 17, 2009 Author Share #33 Â Posted February 17, 2009 yep...truth is that leica spoiled us all with it's M lenses... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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