I've always had several manual focus Contax/Yashica mount Zeiss lenses of my dad's along with a Contax film SLR body and a Yashica one. I always thought it was a terrible shame that I couldn't use them more often to shoot digital. I have used them for film shooting, but obviously it's not something you do everyday.

I looked into it and there are adapters you can buy to make them fit different cameras. The problem was that the only way to make them fit a Nikon body is to have a piece of glass within the adapter to adjust the focus, due to the distance between the lens and sensor. I didn't like this idea as I don't want to be putting cheap glass between the Zeiss and the sensor. Also, I really couldn't find any definite examples of anyone doing this with a good result. So, instead I went over to the 'dark side'. Yes, I bought a Canon! Just a cheap one, a 1000d, along with an adapter, which doesn't need glass in the way - hooray!

I've had a mess with it and taken some snaps of my usual suspects - the dog and the garden lol. It's a shame I can't use it on my D300, maybe one day I will give it a try with the Nikon adapter!

Hmm....what's this? by dreamzscape, on Flickr

Think I'll chew it! by dreamzscape, on Flickr

Out in the garden by dreamzscape, on Flickr

Chase by dreamzscape, on Flickr

Glad to see you got the body Loz. Hope it was alright. Nice shots above.

Haha thanks for your help with that hedge! All went smoothly and body is fine very hard to use with these lenses though! Lol

Very nice.

What Contax Zeiss lenses do you have out of curiosity?

28mm F2.8 Distagon, 50mm F1.4 Planar, 85mm F2.8 Sonnar and 135mm F2.8 Sonnar