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Olivier
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Registered: December 2008
Posts: 9
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Review Date: Sun December 14, 2008
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: $800.00
| Rating: 10
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Pros:
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Sharpness, contrast, bokeh. Optics, basically.
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Size? It is larger than you might expect.
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The 2/35 Distagon is an ideal lens which can be shot at any setting with peace of mind. This is extremely rare in my experience, this is the only lens I presently own for which I can confidently say this.
Directly from f/2 the performance it delivers is outstanding, even on APS-C, and it continuously improves while stepping down until f/5.6. The lens does not exhibit significant aberrations of any kind (chromatic or other), and what little there is disappears quickly with stopping down. I want to be clear: you do not need to step down to use this lens in difficult conditions.
My personal experience with the 2/35 on APS-C was delighftul, and I highly recommend this lens as a "digital nifty fifty". On full-frame cameras, the field of view is more polarizing in that some want to use nothing else and some don't know what to do with it.
My bottom line is this: this was my first Zeiss lens and it was able to convince me to switch entirely from Nikon to Zeiss lenses.
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mfbenedict
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Registered: June 2009
Posts: 2
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Review Date: Fri July 31, 2009
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: $823.00
| Rating: 10
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Pros:
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It makes what I shoot more beautiful than what I saw.
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Cons:
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The lens is heavy. Purplish nile lilies turned cobalt blue with this lens. Not a very serious problem.
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Sublime.
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jhsymington
New Member
Registered: January 2010
Location: London, UK
Posts: 6
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Review Date: Fri January 22, 2010
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: None indicated
| Rating: 10
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Pros:
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Outstanding optics
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It's surprisingly big.
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For me this is one of the holy trinity of the ZF range (the others being the 21mm and the 100mm)and it is by far my most used lens. It is simply unimpeachable. Stunning wide open and it gets better as you stop down. A 'must have' lens.
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philber
philber
Registered: October 2009
Location: Paris area
Posts: 10
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Review Date: Sat March 13, 2010
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: $1,150.00
| Rating: 9
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Pros:
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flawlessless, rendition, build quality
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Cons:
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it could always cost and weigh less...
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I owned a 35L, which a traded in for this. It never gace me any reason to question my decision or to look back.
The 35 ZE is the most flawless lens I have ever owned. This odes not mean totally flawless, but that it has less flaws than any other lens...
Razor sharp very close up all the way to infinity, sharp from wide open, I use it all the way from shots of leaves or flowers to (obviously) cityscape and landscape.
Colours, contrast, volumes, its rendition is always superlative, and it is known to be the Zeiss lens that gives the best "3D" effect.
Otherwisde, build is in keeping with Zeiss tradition: very solid, mechanically refined, quite heavy.
A workhorse lens, that speeds like a racehorse
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