While meandering through the Welsh Valleys today I happened across Tredegar's clock tower. It has been eight-eighths cloud cover all day but I thought I'd snap it anyway as I was keen to try out a hybrid MF format. The camera is my Fuji GFX 50SII and the lens is the superb, 27-year-old Carl Zeiss 80mm f2 T* Planar for the Contax 645. The two are attached by the Mk1 version of the Fringer AF Adapter and it works a treat. Sadly, the understandable limitations of this site prevent the original file at 23Mb from being seen but the level of detail captured by the 50Mp sensor is amazing (I just wish I could afford the 100Mp models!) and all the Contax 645 lenses are more than a match for it.
I've attached a composite image which is an 80% reduction of the original with a further 60% crop of some of the detail on the right. According to the EXIF data, it was shot at 1/1323s @ f6.28. The picture may be boring but it does show how well that old Zeiss glass performs on the F
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I've attached a composite image which is an 80% reduction of the original with a further 60% crop of some of the detail on the right. According to the EXIF data, it was shot at 1/1323s @ f6.28. The picture may be boring but it does show how well that old Zeiss glass performs on the F