carstenw
Active member
I ended up risking it all and getting the 250/4FE, as well as the 50/2.8FE. Added to my 110/2FE I have a nice threesome for my V-kit, and also three lenses which fill in gaps in my 35/80/120 Contax 645 lineup, so it all works together really well.
I haven't had the chance to shoot anything yet, since work is frantic and on the home-front we were all ill for a spell, but hopefully sometime soon this will work out. I have spent some time looking through the 2000FC/M with the 250/4 on it, and focusing at different distances, examining the out-of-focus-blur as well as I could, and I must admit that the lens appears to render very nicely.
The only flies in the ointment are that 1) it appears I am missing the front half of the two-piece hood for the 50/2.8, so I can't use filters as is, and 2) the lettering is coming off the otherwise really clean 250/4. What on earth was Hasselblad/Zeiss thinking when they went to silk-screened letters on lenses this expensive???
I haven't had the chance to shoot anything yet, since work is frantic and on the home-front we were all ill for a spell, but hopefully sometime soon this will work out. I have spent some time looking through the 2000FC/M with the 250/4 on it, and focusing at different distances, examining the out-of-focus-blur as well as I could, and I must admit that the lens appears to render very nicely.
The only flies in the ointment are that 1) it appears I am missing the front half of the two-piece hood for the 50/2.8, so I can't use filters as is, and 2) the lettering is coming off the otherwise really clean 250/4. What on earth was Hasselblad/Zeiss thinking when they went to silk-screened letters on lenses this expensive???