Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 22:32:25 -0700
From: "Richard F. Man" <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [OM] Contax T3
Interesting comments - Do you think the T3's Carl Zeiss' lens is just way
better than most (Zuiko) lens, or do you think other factors are involved,
e.g. that it being a point and shoot, it has no mirror and no vibration?
You know, Richard, that's a very good question, and one that will
bear some "scientific" experimentation...
I will look into setting up such an experiment, comparing it to my
50mm f/1.8 (not a Made in Japan one, unfortunately. If someone wants
to loan me one, I will try that out, too) on a tripod and with mirror
lock-up. I have another camera with a Zeiss T* lens, my Yashica T4,
and one thing I notice about both lenses is that they have really
superb color contrast. I think this may be due to the T* coating, but
I don't know for sure. Jim Brokaw or some of the other list members
may know (Gary Reese, maybe?) Most of my Zuikos are single-coated, so
I can't really compare them in that regard, either, I guess. Along
these lines, I recently shot some vintage motorcycles (the bikes were
stationary, parked as part of a concours) at the vintage races a few
weeks ago. I shot the same bikes with by my T4 and my OM-1 with my
silvernosed Zuiko f/1.4 (not the sharpest Zuiko, I know), and looking
at the photos, the T4 photos looks sharper with better contrast (that
is, when the T4 nailed the focus...sometimes the T4 got confused
with the autofocus and focussed more on the background than the
subject motorcycle).
Anyway, though. if I had to say at this point (and this is entirely
subjective, mind), I would say that the lens is just way better.
Zeiss apparently improved the Sonnar on the new T3 with a new design
and formula just for this camera, so given that it is a very late,
modern design and implementation, I would hazard a guess that the
lens is just better....regardless of what the underlying reasons
might be, with respect to what's important (the photographic image
produced), all I can say is the results are pretty "fr*ckin"
spectacular.
Coming back on topic, I must say that the photos I am starting to get
in that I took recently with my 300mm Zuiko look superb....I have a
lot of race photos from the AMA Superbike races last weekend I will
be posting a link to soon (once I get them uploaded...)
The other thing that I am quite pleased about, and have experienced
for the first time, is the OTF metering of the OM-2's (my 2S,
specifically)....I've shot about 150+ frames with it so far and my
exposures with it on "auto" have been dead on....very, very
nice....it's amazing to me Oly first implemented this as far back as
'75! Pretty dang impressive....
-Stephen Scharf
--
2001 CBR600F4i - Fantastic!
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