p.1 #3 · Why doesn't Zeiss make lenses for Nikon Z mount?
That 718g 78mm manual focus brick?
Yeah, I dont want Zeiss to make any of those - nifty fifty on steroids. I get that its 1.4 and optically amazing, but in reality, I would expect it to be AF at least at that size and weight...
If you like huge glass bricks and wrist injuries, get Plena.
p.1 #5 · Why doesn't Zeiss make lenses for Nikon Z mount?
Zeiss barely makes lenses at all these days. Making lenses for the least adaptable mount on the market is probably not in their strategic business plan.
p.1 #6 · Why doesn't Zeiss make lenses for Nikon Z mount?
uintaangler wrote:
Why doesn't Zeiss make affordable, lighter lenses for Nikon Z?
Because the smaller Loxia Zeiss lenses for E-mount were made under some sort of cooperative agreement when Sony was first trying to get market share through their early E-mount cameras. Those lenses are still only available for E-mount and there may be some sort of term in the agreement that Zeiss can't release them for other mounts. Zeiss has released very few lenses in recent years, and the two recent releases for Z-mount (and other mounts) makes it seem like they're going back to the huge lens designs of the Zeiss DSLR days.
p.1 #7 · Why doesn't Zeiss make lenses for Nikon Z mount?
We will have to see what Zeiss decides to do going forward, now that they restarted the Otus line. The new 50mm ML is the first Zeiss mirrorless lens in about 5 years, and is available for Nikon Z.
I don't think many photographers would be happy if Zeiss just took their E lenses and made Z versions. Some of the E lenses are stronger than others, and they're really not complete sets. My guess is Zeiss is going to build out the Outs ML line to 3-5 lenses first, and depending on how that goes, possibly start a new mirrorless line for E, Z an RF.
They're not quite the same, but if you like high quality MF lenses, you may want to check out Voigtlander, especially their APO lenses. They don't have quite the same build quality and optical rendering as Zeiss ZF lenses, but they are usually cheaper, lighter, smaller, and have fewer aberrations, such as color fringing.
BTW the Zeiss ZF lenses do adapt well to Nikon Z with the FTZ adapter.
p.1 #8 · Why doesn't Zeiss make lenses for Nikon Z mount?
uintaangler wrote:
Why doesn't Zeiss make affordable, lighter lenses for Nikon Z?
Because they have no pulse on the market anymore and other companies are already filling the void of Zeiss-
Voigtlander and Thypoch are making amazing optics right now. If you really want Zeiss, grab a M to ZF adapter and go buy the older Zeiss glass that adapts very will to the Z mount-
p.1 #9 · Why doesn't Zeiss make lenses for Nikon Z mount?
RustyRus wrote:
Because they have no pulse on the market anymore and other companies are already filling the void of Zeiss-
Voigtlander and Thypoch are making amazing optics right now. If you really want Zeiss, grab a M to ZF adapter and go buy the older Zeiss glass that adapts very will to the Z mount-
p.1 #10 · Why doesn't Zeiss make lenses for Nikon Z mount?
RustyRus wrote:
Because they have no pulse on the market anymore and other companies are already filling the void of Zeiss-
Voigtlander and Thypoch are making amazing optics right now. If you really want Zeiss, grab a M to ZF adapter and go buy the older Zeiss glass that adapts very will to the Z mount-
Zeiss is a large company. All of their consumer products combined are at 15% of revenues, so products like SLR or MILS lenses are only a fraction of that 15%.
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p.1 #13 · Why doesn't Zeiss make lenses for Nikon Z mount?
Zeiss M mount lenses are designed with Leica M system in mind so edge smearing will be an issue
for some lenses just like it is on the Sony body. However some lenses do work well with Nikon body.
Personally I use Zeiss 35/1.4 ZM quite a bit with Nikon until 35/1.2S came out anyhow.
Also using Techart M to Z adapter, turing those manual lens into pretty decent AF lens is a bonus.
Milvus and Otus lenses are always big and heavy so no surprise there and those that can handle the
weight, it is well worth the effort, I think.
p.1 #14 · Why doesn't Zeiss make lenses for Nikon Z mount?
suteetat wrote:
Zeiss M mount lenses are designed with Leica M system in mind so edge smearing will be an issue
for some lenses just like it is on the Sony body. However some lenses do work well with Nikon body.
Personally I use Zeiss 35/1.4 ZM quite a bit with Nikon until 35/1.2S came out anyhow.
Also using Techart M to Z adapter, turing those manual lens into pretty decent AF lens is a bonus.
Milvus and Otus lenses are always big and heavy so no surprise there and those that can handle the
weight, it is well worth the effort, I think.
It’s proven better On Nikon-
Won’t be as good as true M bodies but the filter stack is thinner on the Nikon mount-
Yes, in general Z body plays better with M mount lens than Sony but it is not good across the board.
Some lenses still perform not so great even though it is better than using Sony. Zeiss Biogon series was
horrible on Sony and I can't imagine it will be acceptable on Nikon for example.
You still have to pick and choose what lenses to use with Nikon.
Many of Voiglander Z mount version will perform on Nikon body better than its M mount counterpart as it was design with
Nikon sensor thickness in mind. Which is too bad, I rather have M mount version to use with Techart adapter when I want
AF rather than having only MF as an option.
p.1 #16 · Why doesn't Zeiss make lenses for Nikon Z mount?
Zeiss is making lenses for Z, or, more specifically, you can get Z mount changes for their Nano Primes. Their lens presence is mostly defined by their cine offerings these days.
The Loxia lenses were made in e-mount by Tokina because it's an open-source mount, so they only had to prove commercial interest to use it. Canon and Nikon appear to be licensing their mounts on a case by case basis and likely charging for those licenses. So they may have been approached by Tokina and turned down or Tokina didn't bother because the Loxias didn't perform to their expectations and they don't see profitability in expanding to the other mounts.
The good new is that the Loxia lenses are easily adapted to the Z. A coworker of mine uses four of them (21, 25, 35, and 85) on his Zf and he's very pleased with them.
p.1 #18 · Why doesn't Zeiss make lenses for Nikon Z mount?
DWOfPaul wrote:
They're not quite the same, but if you like high quality MF lenses, you may want to check out Voigtlander, especially their APO lenses. They don't have quite the same build quality and optical rendering as Zeiss ZF lenses, but they are usually cheaper, lighter, smaller, and have fewer aberrations, such as color fringing.
BTW the Zeiss ZF lenses do adapt well to Nikon Z with the FTZ adapter.
Years back I had several ZF lenses (and Voigtlanders) and at that time Voigtlanders were indeed a bit less with respect to build quality. However that is not the case anymore. The current Voigtlanders now have an excellent build quality.
p.1 #20 · Why doesn't Zeiss make lenses for Nikon Z mount?
Nikon does not want head-to-head competition on high-end lenses for their mirrorless camera mount. They are willing to let Sigma and Tamron fill in some areas of the lens lineup which they don't have an interest in (such as DX primes etc.) but Zeiss lenses would compete directly with Nikon's S line of lenses and Nikon doesn't want that. Zeiss on their part don't want to violate Nikon's patents and would not be interested in making rogue lenses for Z mount which could lead to lawsuits. For the F mount, they only made manual focus lenses and since the F mount is from the 1950s, it was long past any patent's period of validity. Zeiss also does not want to rely on reverse engineering since it could lead to glitches as new cameras or firmware come out.
Sony by contrast have a long collaboration with Zeiss (in camcorder lenses, digital compact cameras, DSLR lenses, and lenses for mirrorless cameras). Sony probably consider making cameras more central to their business model than making lenses while for Nikon it is the opposite.
uintaangler wrote:
Why doesn't Zeiss make lenses for Nikon Z mount?
I have owned a few Zeiss ZF lenses that I have really enjoyed
