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So I'm working on an article about the new Milvus lenses and their origins and speculative future.
I've been doing a lot of Googling to refresh (and supplement) my memory, and I'd love to see if people here can corroborate or correct my conclusions.
It seems that the first two Z lenses, the 50/1.4 and 85/1.4, were basically rehoused versions of the C/Y 50/1.4 and 85/1.4. But in this piece, Zeiss claims that "Future ZF lenses have no counterpart in existing Contax lens ranges." This seems to be partially true in that no other lenses were carried over unchanged, but the 21/2.8 and 28/2 Z appear to be mild revisions of the C/Y 21/2.8 and 28/2. This review claims the 35/2 was also a revised C/Y 35/1.4, but the block diagrams do not appear to support this (and Zeiss calls this lens "completely new" and Luminous Landscape calls it "newly designed"). Finally, I've heard forum rumblings that the 25/2.8 is a revised C/Y 25/2.8 and the 18/3.5 is a revised C/Y 18/4, but the block diagrams do not appear to support this (and I can find no corroborating source for these claims).
Anyone have anything to add or correct? Did I miss anything?
Edited on Sep 17, 2015 at 09:38 PM · View previous versions
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