Contax 80mm f/2.0 Carl Zeiss Planar | $1134.95 | | |
The Carl Zeiss Planar lens is the most successful camera lens design ever created. This nearly symmetrical layout provides the lens designer with numerous means to correct aberrations extraordinarily well, even at wide open apertures. This design is the i
deal basis for high-performance lenses with great color correction, high speed, flat image plane (this is where the name Planar originates) and low distortion. The Planar design is the basis for nearly all professional "workhorse" lenses on the earth and
used in space today.
At f/2 the Planar 80mm lens is the fastest lens in the Contax 645 system. There is no faster Planar lens in medium format photography available anywhere! Even at full aperture the performance of the Planar 80mm lens is so high tha
t professional quality images are reached. This lens design is especially beneficial in the Contax 645, which provides for quick and accurate focusing, where manual focusing would have been too slow or not accurate enough for f/2.
The Planar 80mm lens
is the ideal tool for handheld photography with decent shutter speeds at low light levels, in people photography indoors, celebrity portraits, wedding coverage and similarly demanding tasks.
With its focal length of 80mm, the Planar lens records an i
mage with a perspective (size relationship between foreground and background) that is roughly equivalent to the way we see a scene with our eyes, similar to a fast 55 mm lens on a 35 mm SLR. Therefore this lens is suited for almost any task in general pho
tography making it a powerful and versatile standard lens in the Contax 645 system.
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