Planar v Tamron SP

[nemesis101]

I took these alongside the pictures of the iris in the Adaptall thread - very different rendering of colours! these were same camera (Lumix L-1) same lighting but different lens (Planar MM 1.4)





Doug

[MF-addicted]

Good to show the difference in those two lenses.
Images can tell more than thousand words

[ManualFocus-G]

These Zeiss images are better in my opinion, certainly the first one which has more punch and pop than the Tamron SP images. I've become a bit of a Zeiss fanboi recently (with good reason!), hence I've sold many of my Tamron SP lenses

[nemesis101]

Yes...

The SP 70-210 is of course a much longer focus beastie than the Planar 50mm but even my trusty SP 35-80mm 2.8 / 3.8 has less punch. I HATE this as now I know that everything I do that isn't using one of my Zeiss primes is less than it could be!

I have soooooo many Tamrons (and Vivitar Series 1 and Kiron and Komine and...) but only Zeiss has that 'zing' that makes a pic sing! or depending... a luxury problem though I guess as there are starving photogs out there who would kill for a Sears 135mm f2.8 (as my Mom used to say about starvation in the 3rd World if I complained about her sacrificial sprouts...)

lol

Doug