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Fun with Contax G lenses on m43

scho

Well-known member
Post your images taken with Contax G lenses adapted to m43 bodies here.

Here is one taken today with the Contax G 35mm f/2 Planar mounted on a G1 (IR). This particular G lens is my favorite walk around MF lens for casual shooting.

 

Leica 77

New member
Post your images taken with Contax G lenses adapted to m43 bodies here.

Here is one taken today with the Contax G 35mm f/2 Planar mounted on a G1 (IR). This particular G lens is my favorite walk around MF lens for casual shooting.

Hi Carl,

It's wonderful that you have taken the initiative to start a new thread, "Fun with Contax G Lenses on m43". In the near future, I will join you and post some of the images recorded by my Contax G lenses. All the best, Leica 77. :)
 

scho

Well-known member
Hi Carl,

It's wonderful that you have taken the initiative to start a new thread, "Fun with Contax G Lenses on m43". In the near future, I will join you and post some of the images recorded by my Contax G lenses. All the best, Leica 77. :)
Thanks Leica77. I'm looking forward to seeing your images taken with the Contax G lenses.
 

seakayaker

Active member
Hi Carl, thank you for taking the time to start the Contax G Lens photo thread!


The Street Musician


GF1 with Carl Zeiss Contax G Planar T* 45mm f/2 -- ISO 400 -- f/4 -- 1/2000

Life is Grand!

Dan
~ ;)
 

scho

Well-known member
Hi Carl, thank you for taking the time to start the Contax G Lens photo thread!


The Street Musician


GF1 with Carl Zeiss Contax G Planar T* 45mm f/2 -- ISO 400 -- f/4 -- 1/2000

Life is Grand!

Dan
~ ;)
Dan,
Thank you for posting your nice street shot taken with the 45. Keep them coming.
 

seakayaker

Active member
Heads Down at the Coffee Shop


GF1 with Carl Zeiss Contax G Planar T* 45mm f/2 -- ISO 400 -- f/2 -- 1/125

Life is Grand!

Dan
~ ;)
 

Leica 77

New member
Beautiful camera, nicely taken with a beautiful lens.
Hi Carl,
Many thanks for your kind comments. If many of us submit our images taken with fine Contax G lenses, then this thread will thrive under your leadership! Best, Leica 77. :thumbs: :)
 

scho

Well-known member
A small contingent of the omnipresent park geese. Another image taken with the Contax G 35mm f/2 Planar on the G1-IR.

 

apicius9

New member
Just a few taken at the Chinese Cemetery in Manoa, Honolulu. I was just getting warmed up when it started to rain... All with the 45/2 at f5.6. I used 'auto tone' in the new LR3 and like the result.








Stefan
 

scho

Well-known member
Just a few taken at the Chinese Cemetery in Manoa, Honolulu. I was just getting warmed up when it started to rain... All with the 45/2 at f5.6. I used 'auto tone' in the new LR3 and like the result.

Stefan
Stefan,
Very nice images. I think that I see a few rain drops coming down in the last shot. I'm also using LR3 and I'm very pleased with the processing and printing features.
 

seakayaker

Active member
Stefan,
Very nice images. I think that I see a few rain drops coming down in the last shot. I'm also using LR3 and I'm very pleased with the processing and printing features.
+1 -- Great Shots! Love the bokeh even at 5.6!

Life is Grand!

Dan
~ ;)
 

seakayaker

Active member
California Poppy


GF1 with Carl Zeiss Sonnar T* 90mm f2.8 -- ISO 100 -- f/2.8 -- 1/2500

Life is Grand!

Dan
~ ;)



 

Jonas

Active member
Hi Carl,
I discovered this thread and decided to copy parts of some of my posts in the thread about adapters. I hope you don't mind this cross-posting.

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From post 182081:

I have been working a lot lately, the weather is grey and so on, but just for the sake of it I can post this high ISO handheld thing taken in bad light at a mall:


Doesn't look like anything special at all but here is a 100% crop:

If that can be done handheld at f/2, 1/45 and close distance I think it confirms my initial impression of the lens. A short but boring test series taken at home in better light was of course better.


From post 182853:
More initial results. They aren't surprising but it is good to learn that all I've heard is true.

G1, Contax G Planar 45/2:

A Zeiss made in japan, very sharp, as it often is with Zeiss lenses. When running a series of images through IMA-test the lens performed as good as other classic very good lenses (comparable to OM90/2Macro (sharper than Leica Elmarit-R 100/2.8 Macro APO) and a tad better than the OM50/2Macro and ZD50/2 Macro also if not visible in small prints).
The borders are sharp at f/2 and f/2.8, then they are very sharp.
The corners are sharp at f/2.8 and very sharp at f/5.6.
As IMA-test targets are even more boring than USAF charts I post the later:




Very good​


The lens also passed a simple flare test. Not only passed, it performed among the best I have seen. When mounting a filter it got worse but not worse than one can predict. Below is the f/2 result, no filter:



Very very good​


In real life it means one doesn't need to worry. It's great with a late standard construction. Here is a simple sample from a short walk yesterday, shooting distance may have been around 8 meters or so:



Wide open, in a back yard of an office, overcast. I know, Barnack says "No statues" but...​

And finally, a 100% crop taken from the image above:

You judge​

It's like having a new reference lens.


From post 189511:

"Looking good?" G1, Planar G 45/2, @f/2

regards,

/Jonas
 
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