Đánh giá carl zeiss 50f1.7 năm 2024

For the opportunity to review Carl Zeiss Planar 1,7 / 50 T * (Contax) many thanks to Roman Kononov, who I have a lens from another area.

Review of Carl Zeiss Planar 1,7 / 50 T * (Contax)

The Carl Zeiss Planar 1,7 / 50 T * is an excellent fast fifty lens with manual focusing. Carl Zeiss Planar 1,7 / 50 T * visually does not stand out in any way from the huge number of fifty dollars that were reviewed by Radozhiva. True, I found one interesting point - rubber aperture control ring, this is very rare. Carl Zeiss Planar 1,7 / 50 T * uses Contax / Yashica mount.

Clarification of the front lens Carl Zeiss Planar F 1,7 50 mm T * (Contax)

The lens has a pronounced T * enlightenment. Such a violet-lilac enlightenment not only pleases the eye of the lens owner, but also really helps to achieve a bright picture with good contrast.

Enlightenment of the rear lens and the appearance of the petals of the Carl Zeiss Planar F 1,7 50 mm T * aperture (Contax)

The lens has a blinking aperture device. Focusing is smooth, the focus ring rotates about 160 degrees. Perhaps the focus ring does not have such a large stroke, for example, like Auto mamiya / sekor 1: 1,4 f = 55mm, but the movement of the ring itself is very smooth and pleasant. The focusing ring is rubberized. But the minimum focusing distance disappointed me a little - MDF is 60 cm. Usually fifty dollars have a smaller MDF, for example Yashica Auto Yashinon-DX 1: 1,7 f = 50mm has an MDF of 50 cm. CZ Planar 1.7 / 50 T * has a focus distance scale in meters and feet, and, of course, a depth of field scale. The aperture is adjustable from F / 1.7 to F / 16 (1.7, 2.8, 4, 5.6, 8, 11, 16), between the values of F / 1.7 and F / 2.8, you can set another intermediate value equal to F / 2.0.

Lens view Carl Zeiss Planar F 1,7 50 mm T * (Contax)

It was a little disappointing that for such a price the CZ Planar 1.7 / 50 T * has only 6 aperture blades forming regular hexagons. Aperture blades are matte black. The lens creates the effect of a 6-ray star when used on closed apertures, here example. My copy has serial number 7281885.

'Zeiss' Planar and 'Gel.' Arsenal :)

The lens is assembled well, on the body you can find the inscription 'Lens made in Japan'. You can read a lot of useful information about the Planars from Dmitry Evtifeev, for example, here.

MC Helios-81N 2/50 (Nikon F mount, Ukraine, Kiev, Arsenal plant) and Carl Zeiss Planar 1,7 / 50 T * (Contax mount, Japan). My Helios 'poses' near the 'immortal'.

I used Carl Zeiss Planar 1,7 / 50 T * using the Contax-Canon EOS adapter without a chip. The Canon CZK keeps focusing on infinity when using a conventional adapter without a lens. How to use manual focus lenses on modern Canon digital cameras here. To mount the lens on the Nikon Central Control Arm with the ability to focus on infinity, you have to sweat.

Sample photo on Carl Zeiss Planar 1,7 50 T * Contax on the CZK

Sample Photos

It’s a pity, I don’t have the opportunity to drive the CZ Planar 1.7 / 50 T * on a full-format camera yet. On DSLR APS-C Kf = 1.6x Canon 350D the lens is very sharp across the entire field of the frame at any aperture value. The lens has good color reproduction and contrast. The lens is practically not afraid of back and side light and flare. On open diaphragms you can still trace chromatic aberration, but this is characteristic of all fast lenses of this class.

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Personal impressions

This is one of the sharpest fifty dollars I've ever photographed with. 'Planar Killer' Asahi OPT. CO., SMC Takumar 1: 1.4 / 50 noticeably loses to the CZ Planar 1.7 / 50 T *. The CZ Planar 1.7 / 50 T * fully fulfills its price tag with its image quality, though it's a shame the lens doesn't have a 'flat aperture'. For fans of manual focusing optics, the price of the CZ Planar 1.7 / 50 T * may seem too high. Usually, amateur photographers are used to the fact that mostly manual focus optics are old and cheap.

View of Carl Zeiss Planar 1,7 50 T * Contax on the central locking

Conclusions

Carl Zeiss Planar 1,7 / 50 T * (for Contax) is a great fifty dollars. Carl Zeiss Planar is Carl Zeiss Planar.