Comments on: Snowy Ouray with Canon 5D2

By: John Stankewitz

John Stankewitz — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 02:15:22 +0000

Thanks Jack, for my magazine work my Oly E-3 is great but I am still looking forward to a higher resolution Oly body in the near future for my landscape work. Do you have somewhere on your site showing your post workflow and how you print? I know that you do some prints yourself, but what about the really large prints/panos. Best, John

By: Jack Brauer

Jack Brauer — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 23:33:41 +0000

Thanks for the compliments, John! Now that I’m mostly shooting the Canon 5D2 I haven’t been using the Oly much anymore. Though the Oly is a great camera and the 12-60 a great lens, the resolution is no match for the 5D2 so I mostly go for the latter now.

By: John Stankewitz

John Stankewitz — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 20:22:07 +0000

Love your site Jack, I come here often for photographic inspiration. You are very talented, keep doing what you are doing! I am a photographer here in Arlington, TX and occasionally shoot nature editorials for publications around TX and your work keeps me inspired… BTW are you still shooting with the Oly E-620 and 12-60? Thanks, John

By: Jack Brauer

Jack Brauer — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 19:16:04 +0000

Hi Georg, when I bought the lens on ebay, it actually came with an adapter on the lens already, and it works fine with the 5D2. I don’t know what kind of adapter it is… it’s a silver one and looks fairly old. I didn’t realize at the time that it would come with the adapter, so I bought one on ebay from “happypagehk” whose adapters have a good reputation according to the research I did. I haven’t had a chance to try it out yet though. I will one of these days, since it has the chip to hopefully transmit the aperature values to the camera. Anyhow, good luck! It’s certainly worth getting it figured out since the lens is a gem!

By: georg nevole

georg nevole — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 19:02:53 +0000

hello in beloved colorado
inspired by your picture of that old brick building in ouray, i just bought the zeiss/contact 35-70 lens equiped with a mid-price c/y-canon adapter and it doesn’t work with the eos 5d mkII. it seems as the mirror would be somehow stopped by the adapter or the backside of the lens. also the aperture is stopped.
what kind of adapter do you use?
georg

By: Ian Woolcock

Ian Woolcock — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:39:09 +0000

Was really interesting to read your thoughts on this lens combo. I currently have the 17-40 and 24-105 with the 5DMk2. The 17-40 is a very good copy which is spot on up to about 35mm, but the 24-105 is less than stellar on the MK2.

Out of interest which converter do you have for this lens. Have read that there are a number of problems with the lens fouling the mirror.

Personally I love the 5D2 such an improvment over the Mk1 which I used for about 2 years.

Ian

By: Jack Brauer

Jack Brauer — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:59:37 +0000

Hi Oliver,
Yes I have actually used the A900 with the 24-70mm lens. I bought and then returned that setup because I just personally didn’t like it very much. You can read my thoughts about that here: http://www.mountainphotographer.com/cold-feet-with-full-frame-digital/

By: Oliver

Oliver — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:27:33 +0000

Hello Jack,

very interesting, but have you ever seen an Alpha 900 with an Carl Zeiss 24-70mm 2.8 ZA SSM? You would be even more amazed.

Greatings from the Alps
-Oliver

By: Jesse

Jesse — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:30:53 +0000

Ooooh, I suddenly miss my 1ds3. Razor sharp.

By: Tommy

Tommy — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:36:42 +0000

Nice, I have been using a 5D for several years with alt glass. The Contax/Zeiss 28mm f/2.8 is my go-to landscape lens, along with the Olympus Zuiko 21/3.5. Since you are used to camera movements you could also give the Zeiss 35/2.8 shift a try, though it will cost you a pretty penny.