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Aug 13, 2012 23:04 |  #1

I have been looking for a manual focus lens for a while. I ordered a Zeiss Distagon T *2,8/21mm ZE and it came in today. On a crop body like the 60Da there is some slight trailing at 20s but I was at ISO 1600 so I think I can shoot at 10s and mitigate the trailing. The lens is sharp... the color is also very nice. Those comments are for the late evening shots that I took. I think that it's going to be a great landscape lens as well as astro lens...

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Aug 14, 2012 10:00 |  #2

that's a nice shot, i like the color in whatever that cloud is called




  
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Aug 14, 2012 10:45 as a reply to  @ rick_reno's post |  #3

The Zeiss 21 is a fantastic lens. I bought it just for night/startrail shots. I love it when I turn it to infinity, it is dead on. No searching for focus in the dark. Killer lens!


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Aug 14, 2012 17:45 |  #4

markweaver wrote in post #14857134 (external link)
The Zeiss 21 is a fantastic lens. I bought it just for night/startrail shots. I love it when I turn it to infinity, it is dead on. No searching for focus in the dark. Killer lens!

Yep... No more balls of light :D

Rick- that's the Milky Way bulge near Sagittarius


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