He looks surreal. The angles are perfectly captured, that pose of his left hand looks weird as hell, but somehow natural for him. The colors and contrast in his jeans are phenomenal, it looks totally too sharp to be real, and still nice and buttery smooth.

Reminds me of things shot through Zeiss glass.

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Hmm... I never really thought about it that way. Zeiss eh? Well that would probably give me very similar skin tones as I achieved in PS. I wish Zeiss made a canon mount lens. I know they have the new zeiss ones for nikon... soon, I hope.

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I'm excited for the ZF lenses, but they're far too rich for my blood. Maybe someday, but likely secondhand, like the rest of my lenses.

I was thinking more along the lines of an old Sonnar or Tessar, really.

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Thats the benefits of the zeiss line... they last forever. So third or fourth hand is not that hard to believe.

I just acquired a pentacon six... and it has a nice piece of zeiss shutterless glass.

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LoL i dono if i'd want too...

he's a good lookin kid, kinda emo-ish hair.. hehe.

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The advantage of the canon lens-mount is that because of the flange to film distance, you can use pretty much any lens on it with the appropriate adaptor. I've seen ziess, old canon rangefinder lenses, and even nikon lenses on canon cameras.

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"You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus." -- Mark
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I like his dark eyes ^^

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Most of the Pentacon Six glass is East German, Carl Zeiss Jena, if I recall correctly? Zeiss glass, yes, but not quite the West German Zeiss glass that really continued the pre-war Zeiss tradition. That thing's one hell of a camera, though, and I'm pretty sure Zeiss made some glass in that mount that was phenomenal. (Biogon, for god's sake!)

I'm toying with the idea of picking up a Kiev 88 in Pentacon Six mount, but the backs for those things are so atrocious that it'd have to be a Hartblei upgraded to take 'Blad backs, and the Hartbleis run a fair sum of money. However, all that Zeiss Jena glass, in addition to all the Arsats (30/3.5 fisheye for $250, anyone?) and Pentacon Six lenses...

Of course, at that point, I said, "Hey, why not just pick up a used 'Blad 500c or something?"

And then I realized -- I can afford the camera, the back, and the finder, but in my entire lifetime, I might be able to afford, oh, ONE lens? As it sits right now, I'd end up with a camera/back/WLF, but no lens to stick on it. Fat load of good that is! Maybe the Kiev is a good idea?

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nice picture, but hes not really my type. :-/