Got the Yashica 124G... but now Rolleiflex T3 or Rolleiflex 2.8E

[Jessestr]

Thanks for the help..

I rarely shoot a lens stopped down. Mostly wide open or almost wide open. Hope the Tessar will give me a nice character, rather than the clinical (but good) Planar designs.

 

[TheFlyingCamera]

Thanks for the help..

I rarely shoot a lens stopped down. Mostly wide open or almost wide open. Hope the Tessar will give me a nice character, rather than the clinical (but good) Planar designs.

I'd dispute that "clinical" assessment of the Planar. Would you call this "clinical"?

or this?

 

[Dali]

Thanks for the help..

I rarely shoot a lens stopped down. Mostly wide open or almost wide open. Hope the Tessar will give me a nice character, rather than the clinical (but good) Planar designs.

I would be interested to know what you mean by "clinical"... To me it is a buzzword and like any buzzword, it means nothing, just the pleasure to use it to be "in". Personally, I prefer to be "out" where words have a meaning.

 

[piu58]

Lenses with a fewer correction level have a residual spherical aberration. The image in focus is less sharp with them, but images out of focus are often more pleasant (better bokeh).

 

[Jessestr]

Easy man.. Clinical is just a word to express a difference. I never said it's bad. I just like a Sonnar design over a Planar design. As the planar is more perfect to the Sonnar, it's sharper and newer. Therefore in my opinion more clinical.
I shoot Leica but I don't like the new Leica glass, because they give me a way too clinical feel to the picture. Too sharp, too perfect (for my taste). That's why I use the Sonnar 50/1.5 on my M6.

I'd dispute that "clinical" assessment of the Planar. Would you call this "clinical"?

 

[BobMarvin]

Newer doesn't necessarily mean better. The main "advantage" of a Planar over a Sonnar is that it's cheaper and simpler to manufacture.

 

[Pioneer]

Newer doesn't necessarily mean better. The main "advantage" of a Planar over a Sonnar is that it's cheaper and simpler to manufacture.

It is a bit interesting that the "older" designs are somehow considered inferior when the reality is that many of them were very good. With newer manufacturing processes and newer lens coatings I find that these lenses are every bit as good as newer designs. Not necessarily optically perfect, like the Summicron Asph, but still perfectly capable of terrific photographs.