Long Live My Queen :)

My wife recently surprised me with a box from FedEx and asked me to open it, what added a little joy is that she took the label so I won't know the sender. I opened it and I saw a box from DHW Fototechnik, man I thought it was a Rolleiflex FX and brand new...to my surprise, it was Rolleiflex FX-N with our wedding date on the back plate.

Funny thing happened few days before the Rolleiflex FX-N reach our home. I bough a Rolleiflex 2.8f (I was about to buy the GX but went to the 2.8f instead) and when my wife saw it, she asked why I bought it now!! I explained it was a great price and I couldn't passed and she told me if I waited to next week. Now I know why, but I have now one classic and one brand new.

Enough with the words and see this close focusing beauty :)

Zeiss C Sonnar 50mm F1.5

This lens is unique classic in its rendering especially wide open. This lens has a pronounced focus shift if the lens is optimised for F2.8 (most C Sonnar are optimised for F2.8). However, Zeiss can optimise it for wide open if you send the lens to them. I followed a technique that I read in the luminous landscape's review of the lens, the trick was to lean a little bit forward when you shoot a subject in close distance wide open and it worked great for me. It's not blinding sharp lens but for portrait photography which this lens was designed for it is good enough.

The lens imperfection makes it unique and rewarding once you know how to deal with its limitation.



Here are some images.


Wide open

F4 or so where it sharpen up quite nicely