tashley
Subscriber Member
I took delivery late yesterday of the Zeiss 100 F2 Makro new from Robert White (amazing guys, they get everything that other dealers wait months for).
Weather and my schedule today mitigated against a thorough test but a few snaps indoors showed me that even at F2 you can focus it very accurately using focus confirmation.
So as dusk fell I was itching to compare it to the 24-120 zoom that I've been banging on about. This is only partly scientific: the light was changing so despite the exact same exposures and ISO, I had to Auto both files and one has a bit more boost (about 0.4 stop) than the other in post. Both files have Lens Corrections turned on in LR (not that the Zeiss needs it!) with CA correction on too. Sharpening is LR defaults.
The camera was mounted on a Gitzo 3 series CF, with Cube. I have no remote release so I used self timer with the 3 second delay on the shutter, which MUPS automatically 3 seconds before the shutter fires. This is less than ideal but the best I could do.
Both shot at F8 and focussed in LV (I also shot an AF frame for the Nikon lens and the result was identical).
WITHOUT looking at EXIF, can you guess which is which? I'm not posting crops because you really need to look around the frame... if you have the time!
http://tashley1.zenfolio.com/img/s3/v38/p667678675.jpg
http://tashley1.zenfolio.com/img/s3/v41/p321363807.jpg
Weather and my schedule today mitigated against a thorough test but a few snaps indoors showed me that even at F2 you can focus it very accurately using focus confirmation.
So as dusk fell I was itching to compare it to the 24-120 zoom that I've been banging on about. This is only partly scientific: the light was changing so despite the exact same exposures and ISO, I had to Auto both files and one has a bit more boost (about 0.4 stop) than the other in post. Both files have Lens Corrections turned on in LR (not that the Zeiss needs it!) with CA correction on too. Sharpening is LR defaults.
The camera was mounted on a Gitzo 3 series CF, with Cube. I have no remote release so I used self timer with the 3 second delay on the shutter, which MUPS automatically 3 seconds before the shutter fires. This is less than ideal but the best I could do.
Both shot at F8 and focussed in LV (I also shot an AF frame for the Nikon lens and the result was identical).
WITHOUT looking at EXIF, can you guess which is which? I'm not posting crops because you really need to look around the frame... if you have the time!
http://tashley1.zenfolio.com/img/s3/v38/p667678675.jpg
http://tashley1.zenfolio.com/img/s3/v41/p321363807.jpg