Carl Zeiss will reveal on Friday their new 15mm ZE/ZF lens.
They updated their blog and FB account with a description of their new 110° fov ZF/ZE lens. For memory, the old Contax 15mm f/3.5 also had a 110° fov
the information revealed so far:
- Release date: May 2012
- "a super-wide 110°, angle of view"
- an integrated lens hood
- a 95 mm filter thread
- a focusing range of 0.25mm to infinity
- 15 elements in 12 groups: Special glasses with anomalous partial dispersion, aspherical elements and floating element construction
p.1 #4 · Zeiss Distagon 2.8/15 ZE official, release in May 2012
Is it just me, or is that a very generously sized rear element for an f2.8 lens?
Could they be about to pull off something very interesting, like a 15/2.0?
p.1 #5 · Zeiss Distagon 2.8/15 ZE official, release in May 2012
mpmendenhall wrote:
Is it just me, or is that a very generously sized rear element for an f2.8 lens?
It's definitely big for a 15 mm. Very big compared to the Samyang 14 mm. Less so compared to the Canon and Nikon 14 mm primes, though still seemingly bigger.
p.1 #7 · Zeiss Distagon 2.8/15 ZE official, release in May 2012
Wish this lens had shift. For such super wide angles like my TS-E 17, I really use shift a lot.
Interesting to see how it does against my 14-24G and TS-E 17.
p.1 #9 · Zeiss Distagon 2.8/15 ZE official, release in May 2012
Ow boy. Nice. Sooner or later Zeiss will cover all focal lengths from 15 to 100mm in 1mm steps. It doesn't make the decision which lens to buy easier when they come out with a new one like that
p.1 #10 · Zeiss Distagon 2.8/15 ZE official, release in May 2012
Fr3d wrote:
Ow boy. Nice. Sooner or later Zeiss will cover all focal lengths from 15 to 100mm in 1mm steps. It doesn't make the decision which lens to buy easier when they come out with a new one like that
I dont understand why Carl Zeiss did not release a 10mm f/1.4 lens instead. That seems far, far more useful than a 15mm lens.
p.1 #11 · Zeiss Distagon 2.8/15 ZE official, release in May 2012
magiclight wrote:
Yes I would be interested in how it stacks up against the 17tse.
How do you find the 17TSE Wayne?
Love the lens as its fully sharp to the corners by f7.1 with better than Canon usual contrast and color.
Love it for arch shooting as it has very low distortion for such a wide angle and the T/S mechanism's ability to tilt and shift in any direction is great. Just have to watch out for its susceptability to flare when shooting outside and the sunlight is hitting the large bulbous front element from the side. I just shade it with my hand.
Performance across the frame is still darn good even at max shift. Won't quite have zeiss colors and micro-contrast but is still a great lens which will give you unique looking shots.
p.1 #14 · Zeiss Distagon 2.8/15 ZE official, release in May 2012
After reading diglloyds review of the 15mm it appears that the lens doesn't perform up to the MTF on the M9. This is apparent in the outer most zone of the image.
p.1 #16 · Zeiss Distagon 2.8/15 ZE official, release in May 2012
magiclight wrote:
After reading diglloyds review of the 15mm it appears that the lens doesn't perform up to the MTF on the M9. This is apparent in the outer most zone of the image.
That's odd considering the measured MTF of the 15ZM
I wonder, when talking about lenses this wide, if there's a discrepancy between measured MTF and how a lens will perform on a digital sensor in the M9?
p.1 #20 · Zeiss Distagon 2.8/15 ZE official, release in May 2012
Sami Ruusunen wrote:
found these two possible images from the incoming lens:
the back of the lens looks similar than that on the image in the zeiss blog so it might even look like this. Or not.
It's unlikely to look quite like that, since the lens pictured has the built-in petal hood in the wrong orientation (it would block light the image in the wide direction instead of the narrow). That's a serious construction mistake that I might expect from a hack photoshopping rumormonger, but not from Carl Zeiss.
Also, the serial number is a digit short --- Zeiss lens serials are in the 15 million range now, not the 1.5M range.
