So, the ZF ...

[Frank Fremerey]

Thanks to you both!  This seems like a very welcoming community 

I did pick up a 105 f/2.5, the 85 f/2, and a 28mm f/2.8. I'm currently trying out the 50mm 1.8 pancake, but think I like the 1.4 a bit more.

Now, I need to stop!  I had gone down a similar Nikon rabbit hole when building a kit of cheap lens for my kids to do stop-animation last Christmas.  I hadn't known much about Nikon lenses, but enjoyed that process so much that the ZF began calling....

250329_NicoSkeptical by Tom Quinn, on Flickr

I would suggest to look into one of these beautiful Voigtländer Optics, whgich brought back great joy to my photography using the Zf:

https://www.voigtlaender.de/z-mount/?lang=en
Stunning quality and 100% compatible like native Z-Lenses.
Love
Frank

[golunvolo]

Thanks to you both!  This seems like a very welcoming community 

I did pick up a 105 f/2.5, the 85 f/2, and a 28mm f/2.8. I'm currently trying out the 50mm 1.8 pancake, but think I like the 1.4 a bit more.

Now, I need to stop!  I had gone down a similar Nikon rabbit hole when building a kit of cheap lens for my kids to do stop-animation last Christmas.  I hadn't known much about Nikon lenses, but enjoyed that process so much that the ZF began calling....

  Beautiful use of the lighting in both images. Thanks for sharing it

[tq_photofilm]

Thanks!

And Frank, I'd love the Voigtländer, but am afraid the budget is limited at the moment.   I hope to in the future!

I tried out the TT Artisan 6-bit adapter to get focus confirmation on the non-CPU lenses.  It works fairly well, but seems to confirm early.   It also is limited in that you can only add a stop up to 5.6, so the aperture priority shooting does not work reliably (and actually works better with no CPU data).   I'm going with the Shoten instead.