Tilt Shift Lens...

[inkista]

Originally Posted by dnpayne

... The Arax ones look interesting. I'm trying to find photo samples from them.

Try a flickr search on "arax 35mm" or "arax 80mm" You're going to find a lot more samples from the 80mm because it's about half the price of the 35mm.

I can't really tell you about the Arsat/Arax lens, as I have the old Hartblei Super-rotator (same deal, cheap Russian glass), and I'm not sure if they're optically identical or not. For me and my Hartblei, the contrast of the lens and a slight yellow cast are my biggest complaints about the glass, and the lens is extremely fugly and knobby and intimidating--a handicap the Arsat/Arax lenses do not share.


Canon XT, Hartblei MC 80mm f/2.8 Super-Rotator. iso 100, probably f/2.8, 1/500s.

[dnpayne]

Originally Posted by inkista

Try a flickr search on "arax 35mm" or "arax 80mm" You're going to find a lot more samples from the 80mm because it's about half the price of the 35mm.

I can't really tell you about the Arsat/Arax lens, as I have the old Hartblei Super-rotator (same deal, cheap Russian glass), and I'm not sure if they're optically identical or not. For me and my Hartblei, the contrast of the lens and a slight yellow cast are my biggest complaints about the glass, and the lens is extremely fugly and knobby and intimidating--a handicap the Arsat/Arax lenses do not share.


Canon XT, Hartblei MC 80mm f/2.8 Super-Rotator. iso 100, probably f/2.8, 1/500s.

Nice pic. Was this shot on your Mk II? That's what I'll be shooting with and I wondered if the Hartblei would fit.

[inkista]

Originally Posted by dnpayne

Nice pic. Was this shot on your Mk II? That's what I'll be shooting with and I wondered if the Hartblei would fit.

No. That was shot on my Canon XT/350D. Which is why I wrote:

Originally Posted by inkista

Canon XT, Hartblei MC 80mm f/2.8 Super-Rotator. iso 100, probably f/2.8, 1/500s.

Underneath the pic.

Wouldn't go for a Hartblei these days. They stopped making them with the cheap Russian Arsat glass, and started putting Zeiss glass in. They cost substantially MORE than the Canon TS-E lense do, now. Hence the rise of the Arsat/Arax versions. You might be able to find a used Super-Rotator, but as I said. Waaaay more massive/fugly than the Arsat/Arax.

[dnpayne]

Originally Posted by inkista

No. That was shot on my Canon XT/350D. Which is why I wrote:

Underneath the pic.

Wouldn't go for a Hartblei these days. They stopped making them with the cheap Russian Arsat glass, and started putting Zeiss glass in. They cost substantially MORE than the Canon TS-E lense do, now. Hence the rise of the Arsat/Arax versions. You might be able to find a used Super-Rotator, but as I said. Waaaay more massive/fugly than the Arsat/Arax.

Don't make me come over there!! Ok, I missed the XT part. :\

And yeah, that lens scares me.