asiafish
All-Pro
- Location
- Bakersfield, CA
- Name
- Andrew
So I owned one of these and sold it about two-years-ago, but once again I find myself the proud owner of a C Sonnar.
My last one was in the much nicer silver finish, but was optimized for f/2.8. My new (to me) one is in the less-impressive black finish, but was optimized by Zeiss (for the previous owner) for accurate focus at f/1.5 and while I would have preferred a silver one, the price was too good to pass up.
This is an absolutely illogical purchase as this lens does nothing that my others lenses can't do. It isn't sharper or lower distortion than my Leica Summicron, and it doesn't have any more Sonnar magic than my other Sonnars.
What it does do is combine some of the attributes of both into a single lens and just letting me have one more shockingly similar lens to add to my collection. I guess I'm officially a Sonnar fanatic.
My last one was in the much nicer silver finish, but was optimized for f/2.8. My new (to me) one is in the less-impressive black finish, but was optimized by Zeiss (for the previous owner) for accurate focus at f/1.5 and while I would have preferred a silver one, the price was too good to pass up.
This is an absolutely illogical purchase as this lens does nothing that my others lenses can't do. It isn't sharper or lower distortion than my Leica Summicron, and it doesn't have any more Sonnar magic than my other Sonnars.
What it does do is combine some of the attributes of both into a single lens and just letting me have one more shockingly similar lens to add to my collection. I guess I'm officially a Sonnar fanatic.
