I recently found a copy of the 135mm 3.5 Zeiss Planar T* and I have been very impressed with the lens. I love the rendering of the out of focus areas, and my copy is quite sharp even wide open. On medium format one of my favorite all time lenses was the 110mm Planar, and I feel like the 135mm renders quite similarly. The only thing I find is that I would love to have something similar in a longer focal length...perhaps closer to 210mm. I know that Zeiss themselves did not make modern LF lenses other than the 135mm, but I am curious to know if there were other lens designs that rendered in a similar way. I have some lovely plasmats that are great, just curious if there are lenses that render similarly. To give an idea, here are two shots done wide open that have its characteristically smooth out of focus rendering. Do the Cooke lenses share a similar character?
(Edit: the images look pretty bad here once uploaded, but they are quite sharp and nice in person.)
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