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MFL Meeting in Italy: Day 4
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 4:37 am    Post subject: MFL Meeting in Italy: Day 4 Reply with quote
33) Panoramic view on Val D'Arda from the top hill road of Castell'Arquato

Distagon 2/28 on EOS 400D



PostPosted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 4:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
34) Italian Cypresses around the cemetery and Italian Stone Pines along the road

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PostPosted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 4:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
35) Stone houses along the road that leads to the main square.

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PostPosted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 4:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
36) Always on the hill road

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PostPosted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 4:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
37) The residents of the village always grace the roads with beautiful fresh flowers on their windows

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PostPosted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 4:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Orio, between you and bigmango, you guys are killing me! Laughing Another
great set and #2 and #4 are my faves. Are all the houses made of stone
and brick because the big bad wolf blew down the ones of straw and
wood? Laughing I'm not laughing, really, those buildings will still be there after
I am dust!
OK, I'm a little late, but I like the last one, too!

Bill


PostPosted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 5:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
38 ) When we arrived to the main square, the rain also did.

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PostPosted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 5:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
39) I turned around and saw a new bronze statue below the colonnato

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Possibly Lesbian subject? Shocked



PostPosted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 5:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
40) The bar on the piazza: the best shelter from the upcoming rain

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PostPosted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 5:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
41) We split and I went back home. Along the road I stopped the car to take some snaps. This one is a bit blurred because it's taken through the car's front window

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PostPosted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 5:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Nice bronze, perhaps Sapphic, maybe the poetess, Sappho? All are
simply great captures, Orio! Cool

Bill


PostPosted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 5:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
42) This one and all the following are taken through the open side windows

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PostPosted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 5:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Katastrofo wrote:
Nice bronze, perhaps Sapphic, maybe the poetess, Sappho? All are
simply great captures, Orio! Cool
Bill


Thank you Bill. I am happy that you enjoy the series so much!! Very Happy


PostPosted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 5:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
43) Another view from the car

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PostPosted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 5:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
44) And another one...

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PostPosted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 5:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
45) ... and another one...

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PostPosted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 5:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
46) ... and another one...

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PostPosted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 5:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
47) ... and the last one.

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PostPosted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 5:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
That's all, folks! Thanks for viewing. Smile


PostPosted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 8:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Orio

Execllent photo, great lens. Makes me dribble with envy. I immidiately search for the lens in Ebay but to no avail.


PostPosted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 9:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
bigmango wrote:
Orio

Execllent photo, great lens. Makes me dribble with envy. I immidiately search for the lens in Ebay but to no avail.


Thank you Bigmango. Yes the lens is nothing short of excellent. Sharp wide open, excellent distortion control, great saturation, and mostly that Zeiss fingerprint (the "roundness" or depth perception) that makes the photos so unique.

Unfortunately, all this comes at a price. I paid for this lens 400 Euros something, which was a great price also because there was practically no shipping cost (it came from Milano). I won the auction for just a few Euros, the second bid was only 3-4 euros lower than my top offer!
You should be prepared to spend 600-700 Euros as average for this lens, although every once in a while the good occasion shows up.

I have found two copies currently for sale on Ebay, I will link to them in the Marketplace forum.

This lens is rarer to find than most other Zeiss/Contax lenses. This because it was very expensive originally. It was the last design made by the most famous lens designer in the Zeiss team, and the optical scheme, with an internally floating lens that optimizes focusing for both infinity and closeup, was derived from a movie camera lens that Zeiss designed - and for this reason, the lens is also known as the "Hollywood Distagon".
Another reason of the rarity is that at the same time, Zeiss also had in the catalogue another 28mm lens, the slower 2.8/28 Distagon, which is a very good lens (especially the latest MM models), and was much cheaper than the Hollywood - it is also, however, a completely different lens design, and although it delivers great images, it does not have that "thrill" and "3D-ness" that the 2/28 images give.


PostPosted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 10:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Orio, stop it please. I don't want to get involved in this zeiss-thing. But I can't resist much longer... Very Happy

Great results, Orio, thanks for showing and for your "stop".

Michael


PostPosted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 8:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Thanks, Orio, for both the fine pictures and these interesting information!

I just checked the "Hollywood Distagon" in Kadlubek's:

Distagon T* 2.0/28 - € 629,-
Distagon T* MM 2.0/28 - € 1006,- (!!!)

Distagon T* MM 2.8/28 - € 277,-

Remember, these are average prices for used lenses in (almost) mint condition.

So, you got your copy for € 400,- ? What a great deal!


BTW, I love the old stone houses in your area. Fantastic!
And a bar as a shelter for rain? "Ars Vivendi", I would say! Wink


PostPosted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 10:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
LucisPictor wrote:
Thanks, Orio, for both the fine pictures and these interesting information!


You're welcome. I wish there could be much more to show but unfortunately the bad weather has really ruined Attila's vacation Crying or Very sad

LucisPictor wrote:

I just checked the "Hollywood Distagon" in Kadlubek's:
Distagon T* 2.0/28 - € 629,-
Distagon T* MM 2.0/28 - € 1006,- (!!!)
Distagon T* MM 2.8/28 - € 277,-
Remember, these are average prices for used lenses in (almost) mint condition.
So, you got your copy for € 400,- ? What a great deal!


Thanks for the Kadlubek information!
I suspected it was a great deal since I usually see this lens sold around 600 Euros. Mine is AE version but it's Made in Germany, usually MM versions were made in Japan but I am not sure about this model, because the construction was so complicated, with all those glasses, the highest quality glass needed, and the floating element, that I expect that also the MM version has probably made in Germany.

I am curious about the other high value lenses that I have. Could you please give me the Kadlubek information for the Distagon 1.4/35, Planar 1.4/85 and Planar 2/135?

LucisPictor wrote:

BTW, I love the old stone houses in your area. Fantastic!


Thanks Carsten. Well of course only few houses are made like these ones. In these photos, we are inside castle villages, and the houses are very old OR renewed according to the old style (as the laws require). In the normal cities, this does not happen (unfortunately).

LucisPictor wrote:
And a bar as a shelter for rain? "Ars Vivendi", I would say! Wink


Yes Very Happy Especially this bar, and the one in the Vigoleno castle where we have also been, because they are built inside old houses and so also inside the bar you have the stone walls, the wooden structures, the solid old wood tables and chairs etc. They feel REALLY cozy and comfortable and quiet, and when there is rain outside, you could easily stay for hours there, drinking good things and talking with friends in a very nice environment - exactly the opposite than the modern city bars - as much as I hate those (and would never stay there for more than the minimum required), I love these old castle bars.
Smile


PostPosted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 11:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I am very interesting in "3D effects". I will receive a CZ 28/2.8 in next week. Here on my shelf there is one CZ 50/1.7, one Yashica 50/1.4 (You known something about this lens?) so I am afraid to not have chance to use M42 lens more Sad
Smile
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