TESTS
To read my love story with the 2 sisters
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Might sound a bit off...An old love meets a new love - wow, and they work even nicely together, just to please me!
Yes, even the first name of the ladies is the same - good for me, no confusion...
...The older lady was born in 1995, 15 years is quite an age for a camera, even if it is a CONTAX, and the young G1 was just brought out by PANASONIC in 2008. The full names of the ladies are:
CONTAX G1, AF-RF 35mm camera system, Father Carl Zeiss, Mother Kyocera (a bit of a bitch considered by some)
PANASONIC G1, eV m4/3rds camera, parents PANASONIC & OLYMPUS, and my guess is, Leitz was a bit involved in creating that baby as well! To say it here:
PANASONIC GOT IT ALL RIGHT,allright, right from the beginning! It seems to me designed by the engineers, not by the marketing guys!
It is known, that I put "lens first", so why would I get exited about the
G-cousins? The answer is simple: Carl Zeiss designed a bunch of incredible good lenses for the G-sisters (G1 got a sister in 1996)
The lens G1 Contaxa (Contaxa is a better name for the little princess, just like contessa or princesa, CONTAX is too masculin and too German - jawolll!)was born with very good eyes, a beautiful 45mm f/2.0, later tested by Photodo as the sharpest 35mm lens the renowned magazine EVER tested. Yes, Leicaficionados - calm down, the difference is very small, and the Summicron has its own merits!
That other sharp eye I was especially interested in is the 90mmf/2.8 tele.
Carl gave the 2,8/90 the name SONNAR, and as it has the special patented coating, it is a T* eye. That 45mm eye was given the name Planar based on the lens design.
With those perfect eyes G1 Contaxa could see many things better than other creatures of the same species. Contaxa could see the birth of her baby sister 2 years later, but even with the sharpest and best color rendering eyes she could not see the end of the CONTAX line in 2005, seemed, her parents were drifting apart and finally divorced which meant the end of some bests. The end was very much supported by the lounch of poor marketing, as we see death in the camera industry mostly based on this fact, an immature N Digital which was the last stab into an already weak body.
Anyway, the eyes are still outliving the marketing disaster, in the case of the Contaxa sisters G1 & G2 they are:
16mm Hologon - 21mm + 28mm Biogon - 35mm + 45mm Planar
when you are an owner of either of the sisters you know, that all lenses work with the G2, while G1 only works in a CONTAX updated version with a green sticker in the film compartement. The framelines
just hit My G-Spot
http://digitalimaging.photium.com/portfolio85354.html
just click here
Might sound a bit off...An old love meets a new love - wow, and they work even nicely together, just to please me!
Yes, even the first name of the ladies is the same - good for me, no confusion...
...The older lady was born in 1995, 15 years is quite an age for a camera, even if it is a CONTAX, and the young G1 was just brought out by PANASONIC in 2008. The full names of the ladies are:
CONTAX G1, AF-RF 35mm camera system, Father Carl Zeiss, Mother Kyocera (a bit of a bitch considered by some)
PANASONIC G1, eV m4/3rds camera, parents PANASONIC & OLYMPUS, and my guess is, Leitz was a bit involved in creating that baby as well! To say it here:
PANASONIC GOT IT ALL RIGHT,allright, right from the beginning! It seems to me designed by the engineers, not by the marketing guys!
It is known, that I put "lens first", so why would I get exited about the
G-cousins? The answer is simple: Carl Zeiss designed a bunch of incredible good lenses for the G-sisters (G1 got a sister in 1996)
The lens G1 Contaxa (Contaxa is a better name for the little princess, just like contessa or princesa, CONTAX is too masculin and too German - jawolll!)was born with very good eyes, a beautiful 45mm f/2.0, later tested by Photodo as the sharpest 35mm lens the renowned magazine EVER tested. Yes, Leicaficionados - calm down, the difference is very small, and the Summicron has its own merits!
That other sharp eye I was especially interested in is the 90mmf/2.8 tele.
Carl gave the 2,8/90 the name SONNAR, and as it has the special patented coating, it is a T* eye. That 45mm eye was given the name Planar based on the lens design.
With those perfect eyes G1 Contaxa could see many things better than other creatures of the same species. Contaxa could see the birth of her baby sister 2 years later, but even with the sharpest and best color rendering eyes she could not see the end of the CONTAX line in 2005, seemed, her parents were drifting apart and finally divorced which meant the end of some bests. The end was very much supported by the lounch of poor marketing, as we see death in the camera industry mostly based on this fact, an immature N Digital which was the last stab into an already weak body.
Anyway, the eyes are still outliving the marketing disaster, in the case of the Contaxa sisters G1 & G2 they are:
16mm Hologon - 21mm + 28mm Biogon - 35mm + 45mm Planar
when you are an owner of either of the sisters you know, that all lenses work with the G2, while G1 only works in a CONTAX updated version with a green sticker in the film compartement. The framelines
