Contax G1 or G2 lenses

[Schnauzer]

Good lord, there are even more than I thought.

This should be made a sticky.

Thank you.

[Farside]

Thanks for that, Orio. I was unsure of the hierarchy of them.

[djmike]

Thanks Orio. Good and quick summary of differences among CZ.

[wilson.c]

Here's a link to a nice bit of conversion for the Contax-G 90 Sonnar to EOS. It's in Chinese though, but I think the photos say it all.

http://www.bootek.com/cgi-bin/ut/topic_show.cgi?id=2160&pg=1&bpg=1

It uses the original Contax-G helicoid, but is not as flexible as Koji's solution to M42.

[justtorchit]

Orio-

great summary there! I too was relatively unfamiliar with the CZ optics and seeing as there are so many people on this forum using them, I often find myself completely lost.

[aleksanderpolo]

Thank you Orio, that's very helpful. I have bookmarked this...

Koji, do you see any difference between the G 45 and C/Y 50? I've heard some claiming that G 35 is not up to the standard of other G lens, it might be true in MTF, but I wonder if the difference in performance is noticeable in real life?

[koji]

Yes, G35 has weakness at its wide open. It is getting better from F4 and up,
and extremely sharp too. But I like its dreamy image at its WO (wide open).

Recently I used G35 with Pana's GF1, it does perform quite well.
Both were shot at ISO 200, 1/30 handheld, real life shots. EFoV is ~70mm.
Of course at its wide open...



Difference between G45 and C/Y 50 is beyond my ken.

BTW, G45 at its WO shot >


This G45 has usual Zeiss 3D-ness and has very nice bokeh, I mean it has none harshness and its creamy bokeh
does not looses too much what the object is. Like this (Fuji Reala + Contax G2) at both WO>

[aleksanderpolo]

Thank you Koji, your gallery at pbase is a great resource.