I’ve since done more research into my statement about old and new Otus.
Maybe I should restate it. Zeiss likes to reuse optical layouts. The double Gauss Planar it just never wants to stop using. (Until Sony showed them the light with the 1,8/55.) The 2/28 Classic had a very similar optical layout to their Contax 2/28 from the 70’s.
There is well-founded speculation that several of the Supremes were ported over from the Otus or other prior Zeiss lenses. Because they have similar MTFs to the Otus.
Then we have the curious case of the 65mm Supreme. A focal length Zeiss did not have in their recent catalogue and therefore had to design from scratch. Look at its amazing contrast! But the 100mm Supreme is also palpably high performing. The 100mm was the last lens Zeiss brought out for photo in the Otus line.
Sorry my retarded iPhone can’t copy urls right now. Google “Just the Cinema MTF Charts: Zeiss Cine Lenses” for the mtfs
Kalainen wrote: kotmj wrote:
I hope it means identical to the new Supremes and not the old Supremes. The old Supremes are those that used the Otus layouts. For those focal lengths not covered by Otus, they came up with new layouts. Those are extremely remarkable in mtf as tested by lensrentals.
Care to explain this a bit more? As far as I know, there are only one Supreme lenses, and not 'old' and 'new' ones. At least Zeiss makes a lot of effort to explain that Supreme lenses all share same rendering characteristics. Maybe you are mixing Supremes and Master Primes?
Feb 19, 2025 at 05:19 AM
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