Ziess cp.2 VS 1970's Olympus OM and the Lumix 20mm f1,7 on the AF101

[Igelkott Film]

Planes and lenses


A stylish comparison movie between
Zeiss CP.2 VS the two fastest Olympus OM
from the 1970´s and the Lumix 20mm

Compares the lenses ability to handle:

Breathing
Sharpness
Bleeding
Resolution

The lenses in this comparison:
Zeiss cp.2
21mm T2,9
35mm T2,1
50mm T2,1


vs


Olympus OM
35mm f2
55mm f1,2


Lumix
20mm f1,7


The footage is not color corrected and the other info like ISO can be used to compare noise.
I hope you will enjoy this different comparison movie :cheesy:

 

[mkfotos.com]

I liked it, thanks. Based on the footage, my conclusion is that optically, the pancake and old glass are very close to the CP.2's, until very high contrast conditions are encountered, at which point the old glass gets creamed (likely due to old, or absent coatings).

 

[Igelkott Film]

Glad you liked it

One thing I noticed while doing this test is that all the CP.2's breath, though allot less but they do.
You can see it in the fade from wide open to 5,6 how much or little the image change focally.

 

[mkfotos.com]

Yep, I noticed it too, and that it was far less pronounced... but then again Zeiss says that even their best lenses, the Master Primes, have "Virtually no breathing". Well, virtually isn't the same thing as no/none, so...

 

[Igelkott Film]

Haha, I have virtually the best af101 there is.. does not say much

In the stop to stop race with the lumix, the CP.2 shined

 

[stevenblatter]

Thanks!
I'm looking into buying 4 CP.2 and it's always great to see VS's!
Just sold my HVX200 but I just don't' like the crop factor with the AF101 so can't decide which camera to buy...

Steven
http://www.prog-pics.com

 

[Mark Smith]

Haha, I have virtually the best af101 there is.. does not say much In the stop to stop race with the lumix, the CP.2 shined

I shot some tests comparing my classic Zeiss primes which are probably 45 years old against new Olympus photo glass 35-100. I had to shoot stills with each lens on my gf 1 because even the old Zeiss glass resolved more than the Af could see so the only way to see the upper limits of resolution was to shoot stills of charts. Contrast and colorimetry is pretty easy to easy to pick out by eye.