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Carl Zeiss 35mm f/2 Distagon T* 2/35 User Reviews
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Sharpness (from f2), Colors, BokehCA
I realy enjoy using this lens , MF with AFMicroadjustment works fine, and I find it to be sharper than the Canon EF 35 F2 IS. Not just sharper but with more "realistic" sharpness if I can use this word, other than that I agree with most reviews here.
reviewed February 17th, 2020 (purchased for $450) -
Sharp, crisp rendering, excellent against the lightnothing important
A very high contrast lens. My best performer so far for shooting against the light: flare is very well controlled, there is nearly no loss of contrast, and what gets lost can be recovered in post-processing. Night shots are good too, as coma is not outrageous. Color and micro-contrast are always excellent; images really "pop".
reviewed April 8th, 2015 (purchased for $600)
The usual shortcomings (high vignetting wide open, CA, distortion) do not really matter.
The lens is very long and pretty heavy:elaborate retrofocus design, I guess. Maybe this is one reason for good performance on digital full-frame. -
build quality, color rendition, transition from focus to out of focusslight amount of vignetting on my FF body
This is another example of how lenses can differ...that is, I previously shot thousands of shots with the "L" series 35mm/f1.4 Canon lens and loved it. After shooting with this I sold the Canon.
reviewed October 3rd, 2011
This lens is different in how it renders color and handles contrast. I use it for landscapes and stopped to 4.5 or so it is tack-sharp across my FF body. It is sufficiently sharp wide open, however, to use in very low light.
The focus ring is like using a microscope, the size of the lens makes it appear insignificant. But, it can render detail and color as well as anything I use. It does not appear as resolute as other Zeiss lenses, slightly, but it can hardly be called lacking in resolution.
I am finding it to be better used in low light or other than full, bright sun. I feel as though it handles the subtle light better, but that may just be me.
Some examples at the link below, from a recent holiday trip.
http://www.idyll.com/p966376212 -
Beautiful color, sharp, extremely well made, butter smooth focus.A little vignetting wide open on full frame but easily fixed in post processing.
The SLRgear review of this lens says that it has a polycarbonate focusing ring. Well, they must have a one off because mine is metal and so is a friends. Easy to prove by tapping it with a metal object or handling it in freezing cold weather when it's necessary to wear gloves when using this and the other Zeiss lenses. A beautiful lens at a bargain price.
reviewed October 29th, 2010 (purchased for $800) -
Extremely sharp at all focusing distances and apertures.CA and vignetting quite elevated but not problematic.
Corners not perfect at infinity but all the rest is great!
reviewed August 20th, 2010 (purchased for $1,100) -
Contrast, sharpness, bokeh, flare, constructionvignetting, manual focus, slight distorsion
I use this lens on a D700.
reviewed August 7th, 2010 (purchased for $975)
* Contrast is unbelievable, resulting in crystal clear pictures with brilliant colours.
* Lens is also extremely sharp from corner to corner throughout the entire aperture range. My impression is that the sharpness is constantly limited by the 12 million pixels of my D700's sensor.
* Beautiful bokeh too. I love to shoot at the f/2.4 - f/3.3 range.
* Vignetting is significant wide open on a FX camera. It drops when stopping down. Can be corrected in PP if desired.
* CA and colour fringing are low, but just noticeable in some occassions. Not to worry about however.
* Distorsion is low, but the lens is not without. Noticeable in architectural photography, not a problem otherwise.
* Flare is amazingly low, much better controlled than with other lenses I have seen.
* Solid mechanical construction. All metal. Smooth manual focusing.
Overall conclusions:
This lens is wonderful. I highly recommend it for the serious photographer who doesn't mind to focus manually. -
A few comments from someone wondering whether to get the CZ 35f2 while the Euro is low. Lateral CA at f8 is a real headache. I'm not worried about the purple longitudinal CA in the f2 files.
reviewed July 6th, 2010
The VFA charts here show almost as good corner resolution at f2 compared with (disappointing?) f8 performance on both on the D200 and the D3X. I have tried correcting the lateral CA in the D200 f8 files of the VFA charts with PTLens and RawTherapee which seem to work in the same way. The result is not satisfactory because it leaves orange/cyan haloes several pixels broad which can't be corrected. Nikon's in-camera correction for the lens on the D3X seems more sophisticated. Some cyan/purple haloes are evident, but the combination is pretty good if you can afford it. -
Sharp, fine detalis, and the special Zeiss-look (the colors)Manual focus
I bougth it used, but it is perfect (if you wonder about the price - lenses are very expensive in Denmark).
reviewed February 5th, 2009 (purchased for $450)
It is sharp with very fine details and I love the special colors Zeiss gives.
It is not totally ghost/flare- free, but better than many others ( I am "a flare/ghost hater", even I do know how to work around it, I would better use my energy on other things, than working with that problem, and I think most photographers will say, that it is very, very fine in this area)
I am just sorry, that I never will be so familiar with manual focus, but that is me.
If you like manual focus I can really recommend this lens.
