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Thank you for the input. I'm a big fan of prime lenses in general, but I also appreciate the flexibility of a zoom lens. I think the 120mm is a great lens with a lot of versatility, but if you wanted to go with a zoom maybe the 100 - 200 f5.6 would be a better choice for you.

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This is a vintage medium format lens with the Pentacon Six mount.

@@marshalljvanderhoofphoto thanks.

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@@marshalljvanderhoofphoto Btw. I have CZJ 35, 50, 80 and 135 mm...all are excellent ! Regards

Thank you for the comment. Sorry if there was any confusion. The GFX 50S doesn't have image stabilization which makes the IS is the GF 120mm lens all that more important. The later GFX Cameras have image stabilization, but I have not used them with the CZ Jena 120 to test if the IS works.

Thanks anyway 😀

Thank you for the feedback. All 3 lenses can be found for a really good price, especially given the really outstanding image results.

Thank you! The studio build has been quite the adventure. Can't wait to share more about it.

Thank you for the comment and question. I have an Alston adapter. It works well, but it does hunt a little more than I would like. I find it hunts when it has has to focus from near to far or far to near . If the focus is close it works great. To aid with this I will pre-focus in an area and that seems to work great.

Thank you for the information. Good tips.

Thank you for the comment and your experiences. Enjoy the 120 with your landscape work

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Thank you for the comment. I adore the 8omm for low light, and it does really well with an IR filter on the GFX 50s. Super awesome vintage lenses.

Thank you for the comment and sounds like you had a good find for $8. I feel the same way about mine. I really like it, love the images, but have other 50's I use more. It really is hard to use them all.

Thank you for the comment. You have mentioned the same thing a couple others have said about the 1.7 being sharper. I have never really used the 1.7. Given the rave reviews here, I have added this lens to my list to watch for a good price for one.

Thank you for the comment and the question. The GF lenses definitely have hot spots. So far, the best lens I've tried has been the CZJ 80mm on the Fuji GFX. It produces a minimal to no hot spot results.

@@marshalljvanderhoofphoto ...course I've not yet dived into GFX, but of all my X lenses the only one that has no hot spots is ancient XF 18-135mm, while all others are unusable. Interestingly enough, none of my Olympus OM glass showed any spots while shooting Infrared on my Fujis...

@@tomislavmiletic_ Thank you for the information. I'll add that the first digital camera I converted myself to see only IR was an old Olympus E410. I never had any issues with hotspots with any of the Olympus glass. I really got some cool results with that camera.

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Well said and thank you for the comment. This lens definitely produces images with an exciting character.

Thank you for the input and your experience.

Thank you for the comment. I do a combination of approaches to focusing with fast manual lenses. When I setting up with a tripod and have a subject that doesn't move, I will definitely take advantage of zoom in to focus exactly where I want. Moving objects where it gets most tricky, but I've found the more I practice the more keeper images I get.

Thank you for the comment and for sharing your experiences.

Thank you for the comment. 2 years after I made this video, I'm still using the 50s for fine art and commercial shoots. This camera just keeps ticking and producing amazing images.

Thanks for the feedback. The CZ120 is not a macro lens. I wish I had the 110 to compare, but did not have it available.

Thank you for the feedback. The vintage Olympus lenses are very nice, and I've used a couple really good JC Penny lenses, and a couple that weren't so good. Guessing it was because they sourced out to different manufacturers to make the lenses.

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Thank you for the comment. The CZ lens glass is so good, and that spiderweb is a good example of just how good.

Thank you for the comment. The main reason is to see how this lens performs. It produces amazing colors and contrast, but can it handle the larger sensor of the GFX.

Thank you so much for the kind words. Glad you enjoyed the photography.

Thank you for your comment and experience with the 120mm. The color is fantastic with this lens. This lens, like the 80mm CZJ are both really light, and that is super helpful carrying them around.

Thank you for the comment, as I sit here and day dream for a pancolar

@@marshalljvanderhoofphoto you wont be disappointed!

@@creepyoldhouseexplorersclub I had a 50 pancolar at one time years ago when I shot film. They are nice.

Thank you for the comment. Just by feel, the auto focus was pretty good and mostly crisp, but not quite as good as say having the lens mounted on a 1D Mark II say (the 1D II and this lens is my usual long focal length combination). The main difference is that the lens would hunt a little more on the Sony than with the native Canon EF mount mostly when trying to af on birds in trees. This was really minimal though, and would not stop me from using this lens/camera combination in the future.

Thank you for the comment and the heads up on the f series lenses.

Thank you for the comment and Pentacon6 CZ lenses suggestion. I use them regularly on my GFX camera. They are absolutely fantastic. This was an experiment to see how well the 35mm lenses did on the digital MF. Now we know. Over all the resolution holds up fairly well and they could be used if you are willing to crop the images and accept using a little more sharpening in post. Overall I agree that sticking to MF lens is probably the better idea, but I also know there are many of us that have the vintage 35mm lenses laying around and why not try to use them where we can.

Thank you for the comment. I'm out currently, but I think I own the 50. It's either the 50 or the 65mm. Thank you for the inspiration for a soon to be made video.

@@marshalljvanderhoofphoto I'd also be interested if it's a 65mm as I am not away of that lens. The one I am referring to is the "Flexagon". Every day I consider selling my GF 250mm and invest in some older medium format glass for my own reviews. The advantage is of course they don't go down in value, so I can buy and sell to my hearts content. Disadvantage, the GF 250mm is such an epic lens, and it's hard to see a day when I will spend that kind of money again for a single lens.

@@filmstudiojapanDOTcom It might take me a few weeks but I will get a review out of the lens I have. I've heard really good things about the GF250. That would be a difficult lens to part with for sure.

The 65mm is more rare than the 50mm because they stopped making it in 1969. The 65mm was supposed to be only mediocre. A few years ago I set out to acquire the whole set of the CZ Jena lenses, but did not get one them because I ran out of funds at the time. When I get back from traveling I'll figure out which one I have and put it on the Fuji for some fun.

​@@marshalljvanderhoofphoto Thanks for the info. Always interested to learn about lenses.

Thank you for the input. The C/Y Zeiss lenses are amazing for sure.

Thank you for the comment and kind words.

Sweet! Thank you for the comment. Glad you like it.

Thank you for the kind words! The vignetting is a bummer, but cropping is an option, especially with the large GFX sensor. Also agree that the vintage lens are so light and small they do look a little odd on the larger cameras. I did like the idea of carrying around less weight all day with smaller/lighter lens though.

As I remember from the 1980´s, the Contax Zeiss Planar 50mm 1.7 T* was better tan the 1.4 !

@@JohnCross-rz5uq Thank you for the comment. That is interesting. I have never compared the 1.7 to the 1.4.

@@JohnCross-rz5uqNope, not in my comparison.

Thank you for your comment and the questions. I completely agree with you that DOF is a mathematical property. I am really referencing a few things in talking about the CZ and f2.8 DOF. I was really surprised how sharp it is at f2.8 since many vintage lenses are not necessarily as sharp wide open as they are when they are stopped down a couple stops. Additionally, I really like the the "quality" of the out of focus areas which surprised me given that it is an f2.8 lens and not an f2 or even lower. Overall I really like the lens but if someone is looking for a lens with shallower DOF the CZ 135 f2 would probably be a better choice. Hope this answers your questions.

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Thank you for the comment, and glad that you found it to be a good reminder. We all need those every once in a while.

Thank you for the comment! Congrats on the new lens. I really enjoyed going out shooting with it for this video. Hope you enjoy it and create many amazing images with it.