I bought the G Sonnar 90/2.8 lens and was waiting to buy a camera to mount it!! I finally settled on the GF1 and had to wait for 2 long months for my visit to Boston. This was one of the first shots captured on a muggy evening in Doha of my daughter. The temperature was a sweltering 40C at 5PM!! That is summer in the Qatar.
The 2x crop factor makes this lens a telephoto. The quality is simply out of the world. I then found a Planar 45/2 online and promptly bought it. It is now always on my GF1.
Thanks :) I just wish the red pillars went on a little bit further to appear more maze like. I'd need a wider Zeiss lens though and I had my 14-24mm only. A zeiss 21 or 18 would have been nice.
Hi - Thanks! Film is Fuji NPZ 800. Being a bit generous with exposure gives a little more color richness, a touch more shadow detail, smoother appearing grain, and a safety margin against underexposure... without blocking up the highlights.
Actually, it's my habit with any C-41 film to set the ISO dial two clicks slower than box speed.
Hi, thank you! The original was about 12mp so I had to scale down the pixels quite a bit so it would be accepted by this site. I have a link to my flicker page with this photo :)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/matt_macdonald_shots/4467548120/
@andreasrech: most of the time the island gives a perfect sky with beautiful clouds, but I was not that lucky at that time. As you said, nature has its own will :)
@Ziss Man: Indeed, the water is perfectly still which gave perfect in depth scenery
Glad to have sparked a pleasant memory or two! I got mine 4 years ago for $155 from a RangeFinderForum member in New York and had it rebuilt by Camera Care for $190, including a new meter cell. That service also included a CLA for the lens, which was $152 from a seller in Kerala India. I don't use the kit very much, but it's fun when I do. :)
I had that same camera ! The first Contax I had I bought in Berlin in 1956 for £38 it was the model III with the un-coated f1.5 Sonnar--not very good-- then I got a IIIa with coated f1.5 Sonnar.
I did straighten it out in the darkroom RA4 print I made to put into my Camera Club Print competition -- I left it here to show it was 'Shot From The Hip' ie GUESSED ! Thanks for viewing --- Peter.
