Zeiss ZF Lenses
I eagerly await future offerings from Zeiss in the ZF line—the fact is that I shoot the ZF line most of the time now on both the Nikon D3 and Canon EOS 1Ds Mark III. Find out why in Zeiss ZF Lenses. (And if you don’t think manual focus lenses are for you, get the review anyway, just to learn a huge amount about lenses in general—well worth when considering the N or C brands).
Of course, the lens(es) one shoots are strongly influenced by subject matter (eg moving kids*). I do shoot Canon and Nikon lenses (Nikon’s new zooms are superb), but more and more I find that I prefer to work with a fixed focal length (non-zoom) lens—fast shooting != best results for many subjects. And autofocus often gets in the way of the precision focus I demand, especially at f/2.
* “kids” seems oddly inaccurate—“monkeys on speed” seems more apt
