Matt Grum wrote: philber wrote:
I am very surprised that the 35 would be a Biogon, and delighted that the 50 would be a Planar. Though the look and size looks suspicious, as does the simplicitiy of the glass. So, SR6 notwithstanding, I am doubtful of this information.
But if the simplicity and Planar design are confirmed, I am putting an order for one, sight unseen. Can hardly wait!
SR6 applies only the authenticity of the image, the other information might be slightly inaccurate. It\'s hard to say for sure about the size without knowing how much of the front is lens hood, it could be the hood overlaps the end of the barrel slightly.
I\'m a bit surprised (not in a good way) that SAR referred to the initial set of 5 Loxia lenses to be rolled out over 6 to 12 months, rather than Zeiss giving us 5 up front as they seemed to indicate a year ago. Hopefully by Photokina we at least get full specs of all 5 so we know if there are any we\'d be interested in waiting for.
Five in a year was always very ambitious, but what I worried about then I worry about even more now. That the new lenses will just be slight modifications of their ZM line. Unfortunately these first two lenses look exactly like that. IMO, that isn\'t so bad for the 50 f/2 which was at least decent on the Sony cameras, but I have worries about the 35. The ZM 35 f/2 was quite weak at infinity on the Sony cameras. I hope they were able to rework so that it has at least decent performance. I had hopes that they would really re-engineer these with floating elements and APD glass, but so far that doesn\'t look like it going to happen. I\'m not going to panic too much, however. The first lenses offered in the ZF line were the 50 and 85 planers, which were not major revisions from the C/Y mount lenses, and then later lenses were new designs/bigger modifications. I hope the same is true with the loxia lenses. I would like to see some newer designs and some bigger modifications.
Correct. I can\'t really see why someone would go for a new - maybe even more expensive - Loxia E-mount lens version if there are the very similar M lens mount versions already out there. Personally, I would rather get a M mount lens as sort of investment for later than an E mount lens which only fits to Sony mirrorless cameras. I don\'t see any issue of using an adapter to mount M lenses on Sony cameras (that\'s what I am already currently doing). I am quite sure that the M mount will continue to exist as it is, but I am not so sure what will happen to the E mount in a few years from now....Sony might change the mount/format again.
Aug 29, 2014 at 08:03 AM
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