"and if so"... and if not? If course, AFMA. For a manual focus lens, right?
The "alternative focus screen" first needs to be available, must be possible to fit in with no problem - especially with no problem with the other lenses. At worst, these will be off focus a weeny bit when using the screen to manual focus.
After that, I'd love to watch a Zeiss representative doing a wide open portrait session with in focus eyes and headshots, handling 1.5-2kg of a lens without tripod. I would even pay an entrance fee for this experience. Must be entertaining to see who looses his nerve or falls asleep first, model or photog? And how lively the pictures would look like afterwards
Yes we had f/1.4 lenses back in the day of film, when no one could do AFMA and Contax marketing brought the film bending to our minds which makes it's own curved sensor, just to sell a ceramic vacuum plate as THE thing. But these f/1.4 lenses from his times won't stand a chance in terms of sharpness and contrast to modern lenses, so we had to stop down - and the f/1.4 was more to make a bright finder view. The occasions I used wide open were the occasions I had to explain afterwards where I wanted to place sharpness...
The "alternative focus screen" first needs to be available, must be possible to fit in with no problem - especially with no problem with the other lenses. At worst, these will be off focus a weeny bit when using the screen to manual focus.
After that, I'd love to watch a Zeiss representative doing a wide open portrait session with in focus eyes and headshots, handling 1.5-2kg of a lens without tripod. I would even pay an entrance fee for this experience. Must be entertaining to see who looses his nerve or falls asleep first, model or photog? And how lively the pictures would look like afterwards
Yes we had f/1.4 lenses back in the day of film, when no one could do AFMA and Contax marketing brought the film bending to our minds which makes it's own curved sensor, just to sell a ceramic vacuum plate as THE thing. But these f/1.4 lenses from his times won't stand a chance in terms of sharpness and contrast to modern lenses, so we had to stop down - and the f/1.4 was more to make a bright finder view. The occasions I used wide open were the occasions I had to explain afterwards where I wanted to place sharpness...