Favorite Prime Lens: What's yours?

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Originally Posted by Laurence Janus

I hate to nitpick your nitpicking but isn't it 2.35:1?

2.35:1 is the scaled down 2.39:1 -- here you go:

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Originally Posted by David W. Jones

I own more lenses than you can shake a stick at, but one of my favorites is my Zeiss 35/1.4

I own a few myself, including some L lenses, but next to my anamorphic lens, also my favorite prime is a Carl Zeiss -- an old 85mm f/1.4. Although I haven't had time to shoot much with it, I like it a lot. At full open, it has less than 10mm of DOF (at one yard) and it also has this classic old-lens bouquet. Here's a silly test/exercise shoot I did at f/1.4 to practice ff pulls:

Cat Sitting "Trouble" -- an Exercise of DOF & Follow Focus on Vimeo

-- peer