Zeiss%20Ikon%20Contax%20II%20a.jpg' alt='Zeiss Contax Serial Numbers' title='Zeiss Contax Serial Numbers' />Zeiss 1. Review. Home  Donate  New  Search  Gallery  Reviews  How To  Books  Links  Workshops  About  Contact. Intro   Specs   Performance   Compared   Recommendations. Zeiss Distagon T 1. ZE Canon version9. Zeiss Distagon T 1. Nikon ZF. 2 version. This free websites biggest source of support is when you use those or any of these links when you get anything, regardless of the country in which you live. Thanks Ken. March 2. Zeiss Reviews    Nikon   Canon    All Reviews. Zeiss Manual Focus Lenses for Canon. Introduction         top. Intro   Specs   Performance   Compared   Recommendations. This Zeiss 1. 5mm f2. Distagon is a full frame, manual focus only, fully meter and EXIF coupled lens for Nikon or Canon SLRs. Compared head to head at the test range, this Zeiss 1. Canons newest ultrawide lenses or zooms like the 1. L II or 1. 7 4. 0mm f4 L, or the Canon EF 1. USM or Canon 1. 4mm f2. L II. This Zeiss lens is bigger, heavier and costs more  and is optically far superior. If youre a Canon full frame shooter who wants more sharpness than youre getting from Canons ultrawide lenses and no color fringes, this is a significant step up if you dont mind manual focus. I had no Nikon version to pit against Nikon I suspect its about as sharp as Nikons 1. VR, but better made, has much less distortion and is twice as sensitive to light, but lacking AF and VR. This Zeiss should be far sharper than Nikons 1. Argus Canon Chinon Edixa Exakta Kodak Konica Mamiya Minolta Miranda Nikon Olympus Pentacon Pentax Petri Praktica Ricoh Topcon. When shooting 28mm, 35mm and 50mm, frame lines for 90mm, 135mm and 90mm lenses get in the way. Adams Idento, early version, 5x4, Ross 6in. Homocentric, Sands Hunter, London sellers label. With Adams film pack adapter. Rare the first one weve sold. The site for Zeiss Ikon Contax camera restoration, repairs, parts, maintenance, custom modifications, advice and information. PM1010 FEDZorki 00302 from Alexey Nikitin Russia coll. PM1015. Further evolution of the particular camera with black vulcanite, instead of Contax leather already. Still a lot of secrecies around this charismatic and rare camera. The Noname Kiev occurs in two variations indeed. The first variation comes with genuine Zeiss. Web Site devoted to collecting and using Antique and Classic Cameras. The site contains images, links and information on antique and classic cameras. Collector of. Canon IIB. When the SeikiKogaku firm was founded in 1930 they sold their 35mm cameras under the name Kwanon. In 1947 the firm name was changed to Canon. Nikon 1. 5mm lenses have no distortion. This Zeiss lens is much better made mechanically either Nikons or Canons AF SLR lenses today. This Zeiss lens is manual focus only. It will not autofocus on any camera, while everything else like exposure automation and EXIF all work perfectly. This is the worlds only 1. SLR lens that takes screw in front filters, so we finally can use our grads on our ultrawide lenses where we need them. Compatibility       top. Fr Canon ZE On Canon, focus confirmation lights work, as does auto exposure and EXIF data. Zeiss 1. 52. 8, Canon version. Zeiss 1. 5mm f2. Canon 5. D Mark II. Fr Nikon ZF. This CPU and AI s lens works perfectly with every Nikon SLR made from 1. DSLRs, from the D4. X, D8. 00 and D8. E down to Nikons cheapest D3. It has no coupling prong to meter with Nikon F mount cameras made before 1. Nikon F and early F2s, but even if you dont, it shoots perfectly. Specifications         top. Intro   Specs   Performance   Compared   Recommendations. Name. Zeiss calls this the Carl Zeiss Distagon T 2,81. Tis Zeiss trademark for its multicoating. The Nikon AI s mount with CPU is suffixed ZF. The Canon EOS EF mount shown in this review is suffixed ZE. Optics        top. Zeiss 1. 5mm f2. Nikon mount. Rear element focusing for great correction at every focus distance. Nothing moves on the outside except for the focus ring. Two aspheric lenses. Abnormal partial dispersion glass. Black edge painted glass. Diaphragm        top. Canon version front, Zeiss 1. Stops down to f2. Focal Length        top. Focal length 1. 5mm. When used on a Nikon DX camera, sees about the same angle of view on DX as a 2. When used on a Canon 1. DX as a 2. 4mm lens sees on a 3. When used on a Canon 1. DX as a 1. 9mm lens sees on a 3. Angle of View on 2. Close Focus. 10 inches 0. Maximum Reproduction Ratio. Minimum subject area 2. Focus Ring Rotation The 1. Filter Thread       top. Metal. Does not move. Hood       top. None the upper and lower extension of the mount are mostly for front element protection from knocks. Caps       top. Zeiss 1. Zeiss solid billet aluminum front cap. While Nikon and Canon left the professional world years ago and only supply wimpy plastic caps with their most expensive lenses, this Zeiss is the only current SLR lens to come with a real metal front cap. Canons first Canon EF 1. USM came with a solid metal front cap, while todays Canon 1. L II only comes with a crappy piece of plastic. Nikons first two 1. Thank God someones making a professional ultrawide lens today. Size  including caps       top. Nikon. 4. 0. 6 1. Canon. 4. 0. 6 1. Weight       top. Nikon. Zeiss specifies 2. Canon. 26. 3. 87 oz. Zeiss caps. Zeiss specifies 2. Scope of Delivery. Box, Zeiss 1. 52. Includes lens, metal front cap, plastic rear cap and impressive paperwork. Announced         top. March 2. 01. 2. Promised        top. Ought to ship in May 2. Zeiss Item Numbers         top. ZE Canon 1. 96. ZF. Nikon 1. Price, USA         top. May 2. 01. 71,9. Nikon AI s mount with CPU. Canon EOS EF mount. March 2. 01. 22,9. Nikon AI s mount with CPU. Canon EOS EF mount. VAT. Performance         top. Intro   Specs   Performance   Compared   Recommendations. Overall   Data    Distortion   Ergonomics   Falloff   Filters. Flare and Ghosts   Focus   Lateral Color Fringes   Macro. Mechanics   Sharpness   Sunstars. Overall       performance     top. This Zeiss outperforms and is better built than any of Canons or Nikons ultrawide zooms or 1. Nothing from Nikon or Canon can do this SeaLife, f1. ISO 2. 00, Canon 5. D Mark II. original file. None of Canons zooms or 1. Zeiss lens is on the verge of exciting aliases on the grate perforations all the way out to the edges Nikon and Canons zooms and Nikons 1. Even if a Nikon or Canon lens might be sharp, like the Nikon 1. Once you correct the distortion in Photoshop or otherwise, you lose resolution from resampling. If you chose a Nikon or Canon ultrawide devoid of distortion, like the Nikon fixed 1. Canon fixed 1. 4mm, they arent sharp and all the Canon lenses are loaded with lateral color. This Zeiss is astounding in that it has no lateral color on the Canon 5. D Mark II the edges look as theyre supposed to without color fringes. Even if Nikon or Canon had a lens which was both sharp and undistorted at f1. SeaLife, f2. 8 at 18,0. ISO 2. 00, Canon 5. D Mark II. original file. Yes, the Zeiss 1. Even when reduced onscreen here, you can see that all the perforations are exciting moir on the right side as Photoshop CS5 tried to resize it to 6. Bravo original f2. Data       performance     top. This Canon version makes files whose EXIF correctly reads the shooting aperture, and reads 1. On Canon, from 1. EOS to todays digitals, everything seems to work perfectly. Distortion       performance     top. The Battle Belongs To The Lord Joyce Meyer Pdf there. There is very little distortion, thankfully. Its usually invisible, which is far better than any of Canons or Nikons ultrawide zooms or 1. The Sea, f1. 0. bigger. Lockers at Muse dOrsay. What little distortion might be visible is a little bulging around the center, while lines along the edges are very straight. In this sample, the doors are less straight than this lensPhotoshops Lens Distortion tool is too simple to remove this small amount of complex distortion. Heres Zeiss specification Zeiss 1. Ergonomics        performance     top. Canon version, Zeiss 1. ZE. Unlike todays plastic zooms, this is all metal. If youre used to plopping your Nikon and Canon plastic beauties down on your glass table or desktop, back off you need to be careful with these heavy metal Zeiss lenses. Thank goodness each version focuses in the same direction as do Nikons and Canons own lenses. Focus is super smooth, fast and optimally damped. Just a fingertip can slide it around. The red footage engravings are invisible. They stand out these well lit photos because Ive bumped up the color saturation which lightness the red. In anything but direct sunlight, they are actually dark burgundy on black. The EOS mount has no external red index dot, as do Canons own lenses. You have to look for the red dot on the back of the mount, which is a pain There is no 1. You have to just know that this big thing is your 1. Falloff darkened corners       performance     top. Falloff is strong at f2. On Canon and Nikon, there is no profile available for automatic peripheral illumination correction. Ive greatly exaggerated the falloff of the Zeiss 1.