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Recent purchase a few weeks ago - another Contax Zeiss lens, this time a Distagon 35mm f/2.8 MMJ. 35 is one of my favourite focal lengths and Clocktower in Brighton had one at a reasonable price.
Certainly it's better than some reports I'd read. It suffers perhaps in comparison with the C/Y Distagon 28mm f/2.8 MM, which is genuinely great, but my copy at least is a solid performer and gives little away to its wider sibling.
I now have a useful kit of fairly compact C/Y primes that cover most places between 28mm and 135mm, all with the same 52mm filter size. That will do me fine when I don't need anything faster, wider or longer, which is most of the time.
I think I've been making reasonably good use of the Distagon 35... here are a few examples
Shakedog by Rob Telford, on Flickr
Lexicon by Rob Telford, on Flickr
Parallel Lines by Rob Telford, on Flickr
Frobisher Crescent by Rob Telford, on Flickr
Great Arthur House by Rob Telford, on Flickr
Certainly it's better than some reports I'd read. It suffers perhaps in comparison with the C/Y Distagon 28mm f/2.8 MM, which is genuinely great, but my copy at least is a solid performer and gives little away to its wider sibling.
I now have a useful kit of fairly compact C/Y primes that cover most places between 28mm and 135mm, all with the same 52mm filter size. That will do me fine when I don't need anything faster, wider or longer, which is most of the time.
I think I've been making reasonably good use of the Distagon 35... here are a few examples
Shakedog by Rob Telford, on Flickr
Lexicon by Rob Telford, on Flickr
Parallel Lines by Rob Telford, on Flickr
Frobisher Crescent by Rob Telford, on Flickr
Great Arthur House by Rob Telford, on Flickr
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