Zeiss 35mm F/1.4 Distagon ZE

TijmenDal wrote in post #14572664
Hey. That looks like home. Which gracht is it?

I was just strolling around with my camera, can't remember which one it was.

Nice shots as usual Helena!
Nice colors David.

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Shooting photos of a colleagues son at Eton, using available light. This was my first time doing something like this, but we were pleased with them.

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An old truck being used as a billboard along US Highway 50, near Lone Jack, Missouri (5D III):

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5D MKIII and Zeiss 35 f/1.4 ZE, ISO 1600:

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Light_Pilgrim, how's the focusing working out on your new mark III?

J-B wrote in post #14656421
Light_Pilgrim, how's the focusing working out on your new mark III?

You mean with Zeiss?
I do not remember whether I was using live view or viewfinder. I think one shot is with live view and another is with viewfinder. It was very dark, really not the best condition to test af-confirm. I will need to do it in normal conditions and also I need to get a bit more familiar with MKIII focusing system itself.

SO far I have no clue really. It works very well with AF lenses, really phenomenal....to the level that I want to sell Zeiss and get 35L, but I guess I will still stick with the Zeiss.

I spent the day yesterday with my 5D III and Zeiss 1.4/35mm and enjoyed it. With a couple of exceptions, I relied on the viewfinder and focus confirmation exclusively without too many missed focus. Here I missed the focus on butterfly by a hair or two:

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Hi guys, I just got this awesome lens but I got confused after reading this thread twice.

On the page 30, the cropped image of the dog from J-B looks really sharp to me,

but I cant get the same IQ on my 5D mk II, my 5D mk II has EG-S installed
but in my tests they were done with LiveView 10x, and were recorded as RAW file without any adjustment of the Picture Style.

The result were soft images at f1.4, so I was wondering if J-B had shoot the picture
with RAW or just JPG or it's because that my lens got a problem which I saw some of you guys has replaced with a new copy.

Here I got two examples that I took yesterday, they were the sharpest that I could
get with LiveView 10x at f1.4 handheld, all picture were from RAW converted to
JPG with Aperture and cropped in PS CS5 without any other PP.

resized to 1024 by Aperture
f/1.4, 1/200", ISO 100

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is it beating the Canon 35L ?

ray3210 wrote in post #14756908
Hi guys, I just got this awesome lens but I got confused after reading this thread twice.

On the page 30, the cropped image of the dog from J-B looks really sharp to me,

but I cant get the same IQ on my 5D mk II, my 5D mk II has EG-S installed
but in my tests they were done with LiveView 10x, and were recorded as RAW file without any adjustment of the Picture Style.

The result were soft images at f1.4, so I was wondering if J-B had shoot the picture
with RAW or just JPG or it's because that my lens got a problem which I saw some of you guys has replaced with a new copy.

Here I got two examples that I took yesterday, they were the sharpest that I could
get with LiveView 10x at f1.4 handheld, all picture were from RAW converted to
JPG with Aperture and cropped in PS CS5 without any other PP.

That crop of the dog was shot in RAW (I never shoot in jpeg). You didn't do any PP? You should always sharpen a littlebit to make up for the AA filter in the 5DII IMHO.
I don't think there's anything wrong with your lens.

Hi Zeiss Owners

I read through this thread of amazing images and find that the colours are so rich, so beautiful.

Do you guys increase the colour saturation or is this just naturally Zeiss?

dancook wrote in post #14642902
Shooting photos of a colleagues son at Eton, using available light. This was my first time doing something like this, but we were pleased with them.

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nice natural light on this one

cichlid wrote in post #14788778
Hi Zeiss Owners

I read through this thread of amazing images and find that the colours are so rich, so beautiful.

Do you guys increase the colour saturation or is this just naturally Zeiss?

Colors are one of the strong points of the zeiss lenses in general.