Minolta Carl Zeiss Lenses

ajuk · 07-14-2008, 01:29 PM

I was wondering are their any Minolta users here who have purchased one of the fancy new Carl Zeiss Lenses to use on their film bodies?

Krockmitaine · 07-14-2008, 05:34 PM

Can you point us to some infos about those lens. Made a quick search and never saw any new product for Minolta.

Cheers
Marc

Rob Skeoch · 07-14-2008, 07:46 PM

Carl Zeiss is making lenses for Sony... and Sony is using the Minolta Alpha mount since they bought Minolta a couple years back.

I've been shooting a lot with the 135mm F1.8 Zeiss on the Sony A700, which is a digi body. Since it covers full frame it will also work on the film bodies.

This is one of the nicest/sharpest lenses I've used. I shoot around F3.4 on portraits... gets the face very sharp then drops off with a nice out of focus transition. This lens is certainly worth considering. A bit heavy though.

I expect to try the Zeiss 85mm F1.4 in the next couple days.

I've also used the two Zeiss zooms.... both are great but as I switch to the Sony system from Canon I'm not getting any zoom lenses.... I'm only using primes down the road... mostly because I do magazine work and I want all the quality I can get and have always been disappointed with the zoom quality from Nikon's and Canon's that I've owned.

I'm only posting this picture since you've asked about a lens I happen to have used for a portrait last Thursday and not a lot of people have had a chance to use.

F3.4 1/40 second for the boxer
F4 for the driver.

-Rob

Tom Hoskinson · 07-14-2008, 08:14 PM

Rob, would that be a 135mm 1.8 T* Sonnar?

I have a Zeiss Contax SLR 135mm f2.8 T* Sonnar. Excellent Lens!

Krockmitaine · 07-14-2008, 08:46 PM

Thanks for the info Rob !

Marc

ajuk · 07-15-2008, 10:31 AM

Was their not a thread about these lenses when they first came out.

Rob Skeoch · 07-18-2008, 08:04 PM

Hi tom, Yes it's the 135mm 1.8 Sonnar..... I'm really liking it.

I have the 85 F1.4 for this weekend..... should be fun.

-Rob

Chazzy · 07-19-2008, 01:56 PM

Now, if they would just put those lenses in the MD mount too!

B&Jdude · 07-29-2008, 10:34 AM

Man, I second Chazzy's motion! I got a truck load of SRT series cameras and would love to have some Zeiss MD mounts to use with them.
EuGene

Ralph Javins · 08-05-2008, 03:03 PM

Good morning;

On this topic, does anyone know if the Minolta Maxxum series of auto focusing film cameras has the same lens mount as the Konica/Minolta/Sony digital SLR cameras?

If so, that would open up some very nice paths to pursue.

Enjoy;

Ralph Javins (who needs to remember to not use just the initials "RJ" to avoid confusion)