Great, episa, I'm convinced you're going to like the ZF 2/100. Are you going to get the 2/35 as well ?
Great picture bondo. Yes I will receive the 2/35 as well - actually for the second time. I was able to play with my first acquisition for 2 months around Christmas until I got it stolen from my luggage by the security people of the Kiev airport. I lost also the Nikon D700 attached to it. That was a disaster day for me. I should have known better to keep all camera equipment with me in the airplane. It was a costly lesson. I guess I became too confident living and traveling safely 14 years within the US.
I tried to save since that time and will receive the 2/35 and Nikon D700 replacements at the end of this month. I can't wait to try the 100mm ZF.
I attached a snow picture taken In January with the 2/35 ZF before it got stolen. I am very pleased with the color rendition, sharpness and contrast.
I have some exciting news!
I took delivery today of the new Zeiss 2.8/21mm ZF!. Just by taking some casual shots out of the store in the street I could see already that it is an astounding performer in sharpness. I took some unattractive brick shots and flare shots. This lens is sharper than my Nikon D300 can resolve and seems to be sharper than my Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8 which is a reference for Nikon (I will test it with my D700 next month).
With sun in the frame, I got some color cast purple and sometimes green but it was reasonably controlled compared to other wide angle lenses. The colors are extremely contrasty and I am not experiencing this kind of result with a wide angle or normal Nikon lens (I often have to use a polarizer to have a dark blue sky with a Nikon lens: not with this ZF lens!). I guess the 13 lenses that are built in it make that happen.
I will have more time to test it this coming week end, not before unfortunately as I am leaving abroad to a business trip tomorrow.
In the mean time I posted a picture taken today with the ZF 2.8/21mm without any filter nor any post processing correction: only resizing, compressing to 80% jpeg and reducing resolution to 70 dpi to meet the posting limitations.
For those of you interested in getting more details on this test photo, I posted a larger resolution file on flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/37067061@N05/3463463934/sizes/o/