Photokina 2016 the intrepid crew strikes again

[Danulon]

Chipping time!
Erik is going to chip 3 of my old lenses;
Nikkor-OC 35/2.0 AI-d (1973)
Nikkor-HC 85/1.8 AI-d (1973)
Nikko-QC 135/3.5 AI-d (1975)
All in pretty good shape

Hi Chris, what is that tool on the first pic? ;-)

Nice to having seen you again, guys.

Still waiting for my flight back.

[Jakov Minić]

The Nikongear pile-up.

[Danulon]

The Nikongear pile-up.

I see. That's a special purpose application of your 10.5 - necessary whenever the Crew and part of their gear meet up! ;-)

[Jakov Minić]

Thanks Günther!

The pile-up consisted of many lenses including two specimens of the one that I will NOT buy.

Shortly afterwards I attacked the sunflower with a Heligon

[Jakov Minić]

Then the Heligon wasn't close enough 
A sunflower a 45P and a PN-1.

[Andrea B.]

Chris that photo with the sunstar is the Italian Renaissance DaVinci version of a sunflower portrait/painting. Very cool!

Bjørn has captured the Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds version of a sunflower. Lucy approves!

Jakov's Heligon Sunflower receives my Should-Be-In-Nat-Geo award. Intriguing!

[Jan Anne]

So, here are the corrected images of Bjørn and Erik using the Irix 11mm f/4.

As I was so smart to forgot to bring my Metabones Canon EF to Sony FE adapter I had to try the D810 from the Irix guys, sadly I can't process the images at the moment but it was clear there was some easily correctable barrel distortion. In comparison the Voigtlander 10/5.6 E had a lot less distortion, will show image later.

[Jan Anne]

Another new lens was the Zeiss Loxia 85mm f/2.4 for the Sony EF mount. Handling, build quality, smooth focus, click and click less aperture ring are the same as with the other lenses in the Loxia lineup so pretty much as good as it gets.

Here's the full lineup behind glass, from left to right: 21/2.8, 35/2, 50/2 and 85/2.4


A rather blurry image with 85 focused at infinity


And one focussed at the minimal focus distance of 0.8 meter


And finally a test shot with a provided a7R, pretty impressive but the nice boke quickly evaporates at a little more range due to the rather slow f/2.4 aperture

[Erik Lund]

First a big thank you to all who showed up in connection with Photokina ! and especially to our two hosts who opened up their homes! Thanks We had great fun and Bjørn and I made it safely to the airport

The Irix 11mm and 15mm lenses where better than expected so whatch out for those!

The old Zeiss factory has definitely tuned into the marked over the last years - Most impressive.

For sure hope that Nikon will deliver something extraordinary  in 2017 for their anniversary,,,

[ColinM]

Testing the 85 at different apertures.

Chris, never mind the shots of Jakov or the window, that bottle is definitely more than half empty

[chris dees]

Chris, never mind the shots of Jakov or the window, that bottle is definitely more than half empty

Colin, it took us not too long to empty it.
Laphroaigh seems to be the standerd for the crew, I just had to follow them.

[Jan Anne]

Voigtlander had a prototype 65mm f/2 Macro Apo-Lanthar FE on display which I could play with but not shoot.

The lens felt great, nice metal build and the front element was deep inside the body so a hood shouldn't be needed. The RGB rings where also present to mark it as a Apochromatically corrected lens jus like its bigger brother we already like so much

[Jan Anne]

 

[Jan Anne]

The lens that impressed me most was the Voigtlander 10mm f/5.6 in Sony E mount, like my 15/4.5E it's diminutive size and low weight make it a perfect lens for the small Sony A7 series but instead offers a whopping 130 degrees which is wiiiiiiiiiiide. The most amazing thing is that there seems to be very little distortion, way less than the Irix 11mm lens we also tried. When catching up with Erik he said the same thing of the Leica M version he tried on his M9.

Here's the view at 10mm on my Sony a7RII


And a shot of light the beams which show very little distortion

[aerobat]

Thanks Jan Anne, Will the 65mm f/2 Macro Apo-Lanthar also be available in Nikon F mount? Did they say anything about date of market intro?