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Very nice tot he eyes

The only weakness is wide-open, it's serious enough that the 1.7 is more attractive because it cost less. Effectively you are paying for 1.4 and the performance actually lags behind Leica, Pentax, and Canon (USM) wide open. However start stopping down and the 1.4 and 1.7 are dead even. Logic matter to you? If you need wide-open excellence, it's not here and 3 other well known lenses surpass this.

Measurements form the Old Photodo site, which relied on testing using Hasselblad and Zeiss equipment btw... measured the 1.4 and 1.7 as the sharpest ever recorded at F8 for each. However the 1.4 among 9 other 1.4's wide open, ranked lower than Leica, Canon, and Pentax 50MM 1.4's wide open. Physics dictate, you can have one or the other and you can't have both ..., however Leica is so close behind stopped down that any difference is not visible or attainable for human eyes, and significantly ahead wide-open? It is truly the best to have, simply because you're going to get the finest wide-open performance. If you shoot outdoors, landscapes, people, street scenes...I'd want the Planar. If I was in low light, outside or inside ...Leica. Point is, there is a BEST lens BEST for situations but not BEST for it all

Fast, sharp, great Bokeh.

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This was another of my Dad's lenses and it is an AE version. It is wonderfully sharp and renders colors superbly. Some of my favorite photographs have been taken with this lens. A great one for low light situations, like the canyons of NYC on a rainy day.

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CZ 50 1.7 (also great) Yashica ML 50 1.9(A bit cooler than CZ but very sharp and a Good lens)

This lens is crispy!! Contrasty and the color rendition is spot on. If you want a normal lens this is perhaps the best in the world. These lenses are tanks and I have 5 manual focus Contax Zeiss lenses. The build quality is up there with Leica. Tack sharp at all apertures.

None. The best as usual!!!

One of the best of the best!!

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They back their products up, if needed. I have never needed any service on a lens.

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Canon 50 1.4 Zeiss G

Optically stunning, fast, even fairly cheap for what it is. Superlative.

Well this is a stunning lens. What else can I say? If I had to have just one lens, this would be it.

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Voigtlander Nokton 50mm f1.5 Planar 50mm f1.7 And others too many to list

Sharp, image quality. Build and feel quality superior than canon and nikon

The lack of af if you need af

Sharpest lense I have used but I now use canon 50mm1.4 instead because when I need af I get more sharp pictures. One day I brought both my cameras for street photo-contax and my canon with only the 50mm lenses. Used provia 400f in both and all the photos with the canon was sharp. The contax where 80% sharp. And comparing the sharp slides from the contax I could mot really see any difference with the ones with the canons. 2 of my photo friends looked at them too, and without knowing what camera I used they could not tell the difference either. I use a leica slideprojector with the 90mm2.5 colorplan-pro lense.

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Canon usm 50mm1.4 Nikkor af 50mm1.4 Carl Zeiss 50mm1.7

color color color. small size, strong construction. low price for its performance.

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This lens simply gives right color and contrast. I have been using this one for >5 years and it impress all my friends when they see the pictures. When they are talking about those new stuff like digital, AF, or APS, I am usually quiet. All I want to show them is that a old standard prime lens can give all colors they like better. This lens and 85mm/1.4 are my favorite manual focus lens so far. Currently I use CANON AF for street photography and leave landscape for my CONTAX and medium format.

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other contax lens. Minolta MC, CANON MD/AF

-super smooth focus and handling -high resolution -great contrast -wonderful colors -seems to capture deep blacks and bright whites better than other lenses. -shadow detail -very 3-D look to prints -in focus objects seem to snap from the background, and stand out. -cheaper and better than any other 50 1.4 you can buy -lovely ''''bokeh'''' to my eye. Where my canon simply gradually blurs into obscurity, the Contax seems to hold smooth, soft ''''haunting'''' resonances of objects that are hanging in the background (and yes, I tested both lenses for background blur, too)

Can''''t think of any. Nothing other lenses don''''t do worse.

After having my Contax G1 long enough, and seeing the quality of the prints the Zeiss lenses in that system made, I found a Contax body with the Planar 50 1.4 included, and snatched it up. I have a Canon 50 1.4 autofocus, so I decided to test them out, side by side, shooting a friend of mine in the kitchen making a cake, low light, both lenses wide open. Then, after getting the prints back, I showed them to her. She looked at the prints made by the Contax, without knowing which camera I used, and said "My god!" It amazes me (and disturbes more ''''scientific'''' reviewers) that there can remain any discernable differences between similar lenses by different manufacturers, based on established designs that have existed for a century or more, but the evidence is in the final product, and that was clearly visible to that friend of mine, who knows nothing about cameras. She just saw an obvious difference. I don''''t know what makes Contax lenses so d*** wonderful, but there''''s something to them that goes beyond resolution (which this lens tested higher than any other in it''''s class) and contrast (which the lens beats the hell out of my Canon equivilant.) It''''s hard to describe the difference, but it''''s there (my friend saw it without prompting), and to both our eyes, the Contax photos looked unbelievable. I have shot 30 rolls with this lens, and the photos I get still blow me away. I don''''t know what Zeiss does right, but they do it, better than anybody else.

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never used

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canon af 50 1.4 canon af 100 2.0 canon af 200 2.8 mk II contax g 35 2.0

Universal lens at any aperture

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I started to appreciate this lens when using other 50mm lenses. Color, contrast, sharpness... is great even at 1.4. Super touch, smooth focusing.

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superb, check out the homepage for pdf''s with performance curves

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Nikkor Ais 50/1.2, 50/1.4, AF 50/1.8, Minolta MD 1.7/50, Canon FD 50/1.4, EF 1.8/50

Sharp, fast, well built and not expensive. Well built, bulletproof.

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Nice lens, I think the best 50mm I''ve used. At f2 it''s simply wonderful. Most of 50mm are similar, but not equal.

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50mm1,4 FD canon, 50mm 1,4 EF Canon 50mm nikon not autofocus.